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I am writing this post to introduce anyone to AfterVote , a new search engine website.

So,what is AfterVote? Its a customizable search engine that takes results from Google, MSN and Yahoo, and combines the data into one big search. The advantage of AfterVote over all other engines is the ability to input dynamic widgets and statuses per result and you have as much tools as you could want to define your own, personal algorithm. No accounts are required, No personal info is saved, and it’s completely anonymous as well.

So what features that they have? They have a Blacklist and White list, which will respectively remote a site from results (from your view) permanently, and white list will prioritize a site to the #1 position for your view, even if its #30.

They also have dynamic widgets for Alexa, Pagerank, StumbleUpon and more, which give valueable data about EACH result. There is Live sorting, which will let you instantly view how the results appear in google, msn or yahoo- Or even by highest pagerank or alexa first.And that is the most part of features I like when using it.

There are tons of static widgets which let your results be interacted with by popular services like del.icio.us, digg, blogger, archive.org and much more.

They have a stat bar to the left of each result, showing the position the result was in each respective engine and have a weighting system which lets you choose which engine has the best results.

In short, You can customize almost every aspect of AfterVote.So why is this different than the other social search engines? Simple- They take the ‘known to all’ ‘digg style’ algorithm, and apply a passive voting system to traditional results. The problem with diggs voting system is that only a very small percentage of motivated users vote on a story, or comment. Because of this, cliques and groups start to form, sharing interests, which will remove diversity. By using our silent method, we track where you click, if you come back and much more- Every result you click is a vote that AfterVote understands. As they gather more data, and results are not public melting-pot views on voting becomes a non issue, as does abuse and gaming.

Up next, they will be adding in features which will take search to the next level. One has to realize, that even if Google, Yahoo or MSN was to ever release a social search engine. The results will never be as good as AfterVotes’ simply because of the diversity that we bring. They are currently receiving a peak of 6500 searches per hour, and a little over 100k searches per day.

Here is a sneak peak at whats next for AfterVote - As you can see its mostly account based:

User accounts creation / data saving

>>Social Bookmarking ala delicious with pub or private settings
>>Tagging results (goes with above, I suppose)
>>Search history (option to save or not)
>>Comments on results
>>”last time you searched, you chose …”
>>aftervote.com/popular would aggregate 72 hours popular public bookmarks
>>Ability for users to submit there own custom css, or custom widgets (static or dynamic)

[tags]aftervote,MSN,Yahoo,Google,Search Engine[/tags]