TallStreet.com a new search engine concept where you get to rank the results.
Title
Tall Street was named after "Wall Street" which is a metonym to refer to American financial markets and financial institutions as a whole. It refers to the fact that search results on Tall Street are ranked by a free market mechanism, which acts similar to a stock market.
Description
TallStreet.com is a new search engine concept where users make investments, with fictional money, in their favourite websites and the rankings are determined entirely by the users.
Tall Street is a Social Recommendation Engine. That is a Web Directory where its users control the results.
What does this mean? When searching our directory if you find useful results you can give them a 5/5 rating. Alternatively if you see results that don't belong then give them a 1/5 rating. These ratings help us to promote good sites, and remove spam.
If you become a member of our community you become a trader on our directory where you get to play the search results like a stock market. This means you make investments (with fake money) on sites belonging to certain keywords, if when people search those keywords find the sites you have invested in useful, you earn more money to further invest. If people don't find your sites useful then you lose money. Trading is easy and fun. Membership is instant and free. Anyone can sign up.
It doesn't take money, or having a search engine optimized site to get a good ranking in Tall Street. You just need to be able to inspire your users to make investments in you.
Contact
- TallStreet.com
-
Additional Information
Traditional search engines rank websites using machine algorithms that try to determine the popularity of a website by metrics like the number of backlinks to the site. The problem with this approach is that it is biased towards larger established websites that have been around along time. This makes it difficult for the newcomers to get any visibility.
On TallStreet.com, the websites at the top of the results are those that are best able to inspire their users to make investments in them, this tips the balance in favour of the passionate little guys.
TallStreet.com has a fair ranking system, everyone gets an input into the rankings. If you think a site doesn’t belong, you can mark it as spam. If you find a site that is better then what is showing as the best then you can sign up and invest in it. If you’re right and other people agree, then you’ll make more money and have more influence over the directory. This is in contrast with traditional search engines where its difficult to say exactly how the rankings are determined but it seems like a few of the popular websites determine the rankings of the whole internet and your average user (who doen’t have a website) gets no say at all.
“Tall Street is a really good solution to the problem, people can instantly access what is the best website under a keyword at a particular time, and those millions of great websites that never get to be seen because of the lack of an audience or lack of money can finally recieve the attention they deserve” says Gary Roberts, one of the people behind TallStreet.com
Membership on TallStreet.com entitles you to become a trader where you trade the search results like a stock market. Membership is instant and free. Trading is easy and fun.
More Information: TallStreet.com
