Stumpedia: Yet Another Human-Powered Search Engine - Searching Stumpedia
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You probably won't be surprised to learn that SEOs have discovered this site and added links accordingly. Here's a screen shot (cropped and shrunk to fit, of course) of what I saw when I searched for search engine optimization:
Okay, reading the image for you, Stumpedia returned 77 results. All seem to be web pages, with no images, news items, or video. There's a text box that lets you submit a URL for this search. There are also links to related searches. You can sort results by most recent, thumbs up, thumbs down, and something called “social rank.” While this is not explained, clicking on this link seemed to rearrange the results with a heavy emphasis on blog-related and social sites (the first result was a Squidoo page).
Links associated with the results let you read the profile of the person who submitted the URL; report the link; post a comment about the links; share the link; and more. To do these things, you must be a member, though the options are still displayed for you even if you aren't. Likewise, you can't vote a link up or down until you've signed up or logged in.
I'm going to do that in just a moment myself, but before I do, I want to draw your attention to the top site: Swamiseo.co.uk. The site was submitted by SwamiSEO (in other words, the business owner). It has 75 thumbs up and six thumbs down, more votes than the site in the number two position by at least an order of magnitude. When I went to the site, it was touting its guarantee of a top 10 position in Google. Oh really? I know enough about SEO to know that anyone who offers that kind of guarantee is probably lying. In general, while the site might have been legitimate, the smell of spam was strong. To me, this is evidence that Stumpedia doesn't police its site quite enough.
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