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Stumpedia
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Stumpedia is a human search engine launched in February 2008 by founder Luis Pereira. Stumpedia enables registered users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases creating a Social Semantic Web project. The relevancy of search results are then ranked and rated by the volunteer community through the ability to vote listings up or down. Stumpedia is different from Google and or other algorithmic search engines because it is powered and influenced by the very people that use it. Unlike traditional search engines they do not use bots or crawlers, but real-time indexing. Privacy Currently Stumpedia users and the Stumpedia founders are working on the Terms and Data Protection Guidelines. Stumpedia users shall be given the right to decide about modifications of the Privacy Terms. Since all data belongs to the users they get to decide how their data is handled. Stumpedia does this because companies with commercial interests have unmerited exclusive authority to determine ranking and relevancy of public data. Advertising Stumpedia uses a new internet advertising model and concept they developed called Pay-Per-Chat. Stumpedia's Pay-Per-Chat model matches consumers inquires to advertisers in real-time. Users are presented with a non-obstructive dialog box every time they perform a keyword search that matches an advertiser's business and are given the opportunity to directly contact those advertisers by submitting a short text message describing their consumer needs. Advertisers can then respond to those requests in real-time. Advertisers manage their Pay-Per-Chat advertising account similar to Pay Per Click by submitting keywords and phrases that are relevant to their business. Critics Jolie O'Dell, staff writer of ReadWriteWeb said, "Social search still needs to amass and index content using traditional search algorithms if results are to be useful to the end user. Then again, you could just let Google have this one and wait for your next big idea." O'Dell cited the fact that any site that permits user-submitted links is going to suffer the predictable, lamentable onslaught of black-hat, link-stuffed atrocities, especially for competitive verticals. 
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