Hunch: The Upcoming Personal Decision Maker

Hunch is a new site that has come up now to answer a lot of your queries. The master minds behind the site claim that it is not a search engine, but you can reach the site through search engines like Google giving links like Yahoo answers or Wikipedia. It is a mix of all these concepts.

A prominent person behind the making of the site Caterina Fake told that the initial idea they came up with was the ‘decision engine’ but was abandoned when the idea of Bing came up. It is better to experience Hunch than to explain it.

Users are led to Hunch when they enter a query in search engines like Google. There in the site the user is given a set of options from which he can choose one. That option will lead him to a next question and a set of answers to choose from. There are a series of questions through which the user is led in this way, thus narrowing his search range. The user can even skip the question or go back in between the process. At the end of the decision making questionnaire the user is given the search results for that narrow range he has chosen.

The site is not very much developed now because the range of options given at the end of the search is not a vast one. But the idea of such a website is interesting. The procedure is very simple and user friendly. The makers of the site claim that it might take around 5 years for Hunch to develop as they have visualized. Currently there are only about 2400 topics in the site. Anyone can start a topic and others can add information to it. But Hunch goes through the information before it is released to the net.

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