Comments on: Wink 2.0 goes live

By: Vivian Aranha

Vivian Aranha — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:44:32 +0000

Looks like a porn site to me…. Too many nude pics on the front page

By: jonny

jonny — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:14:59 +0000

jonny

By: Trip

Trip — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:28:30 +0000

Social collections are a great idea in theory. The execution here needs quite bit of work. I found the collections to be of limited use. Cleaver searching on Google produces more relevant results. Lots of link spam here. Wink needs a quality / relevance engine to filter results.

By: mohole

mohole — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:15:08 +0000

I like wink and new improvements sound exciting..I think social search is really different genre ..who cares if I don’t get the most accurate results for some queries, I use these sites when I am looking for interesting things “related” to a topic and not necessarily something most relevant (focused narrowly on the topic)..

By: Frum

Frum — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:20:42 +0000

Thats weird when I clicked on the link in my comments it worked, but on the home page when I click on a collection I’m getting errors.

http://wink.com/origami%E2%80%.....ons-create

http://wink.com/origami—-collections-create

By: Frum

Frum — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:17:14 +0000

It looks like they still have a few winks to work. I’m getting a lot of db errors http://wink.com/origami—-collections-create

By: J-Fleaux

J-Fleaux — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:43:12 +0000

Does wink have to pay google to be able to user their search results? I know you can use the google API with limits … I just wonder what google’s motivation is for allowing Wink to use their search results.

By: Bitelia » Wink 2.0, el buscador social

Bitelia » Wink 2.0, el buscador social — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:52:52 +0000

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By: MysteryCEO.com » Blog Archive » A search engine by social bookmarks?

MysteryCEO.com » Blog Archive » A search engine by social bookmarks? — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:45:02 +0000

[...] Today, TechCrunch revealed for the first time (to me) yet another Web 2.0 site that is some what interesting - http://www.Wink.com. I went investigating and learned something interesting - here is the quote from their site: Share your knowledge, create a better search engine, manage your bookmarks. It’s FREE! [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:36:08 +0000

Why can I STILL not import Firefox bookmarks to get started!? I remember now why I never came back to wink.com after I signed up 2 months ago.

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:59:15 +0000

there is an inherent problem with a social search engine that doesn’t have access to the scoring algorithms that produce the results. Wink is fed by Google, and so they have no idea how relevant the 1st result is compared to the 2nd or 3rd, etc.

For example, I do a search for “searchles” on Wink http://wink.com/searchles and I don’t see http://www.searchles.com anywhere. In fact, I can only get to 21 results total even though it says there are 61,800. Maybe this is a bad example and there is something else going on here. (maybe someone reported abuse?)

The point is, there is only so much you can do tracking votes on someone else’s search. In order to be truly effective, you need to have access to the scoring and original results for each search.

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:32:17 +0000

That site does not click with me at all.

By: Folksonomy.org

Folksonomy.org — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:25:35 +0000

They don’t seem to be drawing attention to a relaunch anywhere on their site or blog.

By: Laughing Squid » Wink 2

Laughing Squid » Wink 2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:11:02 +0000

[...] Wink version 2 just launched today. Wink is new kind of search engine that is based on user feedback and includes social networking. With new beta version they have added a bunch of new features including Collections, Friends, Bookmarks and improved Search. [...]