Webzzle is to 'explore' what Google is to 'search'. We all use Google to search but Google is using keywords. It's good when it's the first step of your search process but not convenient when you want to know more from a Web page. What keywords will you select ? At Webzzle, we analyse the Web page from which you want to know more (chen you click 'explore' and send one query to Webzzle (to get Real-Time knowledge from the community) and many queries to Google in order to help you find the best results in 1 click instead of multiples keywords queries by yourself in the Google search interface.
I may just be a bit of an antique ;-), but I like to be able to do an initial evaluation of a website / product without enabling scripting. If I'm interested enough and develop a basic trust, I may enable scripting and investigate further.
I'm not criticizing the use of scripting in the product or its website. I'd just like to be able to form a bit more of an impression without needing to enable it.
I like the concept of merging Wikipedia and Google results (and/or other combinations). I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with direct search engine results; it's taking longer and longer to find the decent content within all the noise.
We need scripts because of the Ajax autocomplete feature and because of the concepts selection mechanism to build an object query. That's all. Thanks for your comment. With a growing community (lke the one of Wikipedia), Webzzle can bring more and more value everyday to our quest of knowledge.
Webzzle has been initially populated with Wikipedia references and external links. When, there is no data in Webzzle & Wikipedia, we present the enhanced Google results. That avoids you to launch many keywords searches, filter the results and browse the best ones. If you want to contribute, you open an account, put the 'save' button in your browser and save the Web pages using Wikipedia concepts. The saved pages will be in your organizer.
The Webzzle technology takes the date into account to rank results. However, we don't provide a filter to select a date range. The 'Relative Energy' levels (used to give a score to a Web resource and a Web user) are time variable.
I'm one the founder of Webzzle and I'd like to get as many feedbacks as possible in order to improve Webzzle.
We want to build Webzzle with the community.
First off, it needs a much better explanation of what it does. I tried the home page and the addons page. I have no clue what the hell this thing does. It combines Wikipedia and Google results in some way? I don't see how that's relevant. Your current tagline is way too technical and buzzwordy. Explain to me what I'm getting while dumbing it down as much as you can.
Example: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html This presentation is confusing as fuck and waaaaay too verbose. I have to weed through 10 slides of diagrams and explanations to figure out what this thing is about? No thanks!
Edit: Actually, what's really missing is a use case or example. Everything's telling me how this is useful and very advanced stuff and how awesome it's supposed to be, but I have no clue how I'd use it and what I would use it for. Both of those questions could be solved by a good demonstration. Usually when you have something as complex as this, examples are the best way to dumb it down and get the point across easily.
1) We use references and external links brought and qualified by 8.5 millions people (the Wikipedia community).
2) We send more than 20 searches to Google when you post a URL to Webzzle. We examine the results for you, filter and presents the best. It saves time and you get much better quality results. Try to explore from a Linkedin profile page for example. You'll get better Google results for instance.
The usual problem we face is that when we explain the tech, people get lost. We try only to speak about the feature. I can tell a lot about the tech. We work on Webzzle since 1999. But it has been hard to bring the Object technology to the users.
You're still just explaining the process, but not what the results actually are. What do I use this for? What are these results? I understand that you're pooling Wikipedia and Google together, but I don't get at all how that benefits me.
Try to condense it to less than 10 words and in a phrase that describes what I get out of it.
The results come from the real-time community actions and from the Google index you use everyday. Basically, Webzzle is to 'explore' what Google is to 'search'. We all use Google to search but Google is using keywords. It's good when it's the first step of your search process but not convenient when you want to know more from a Web page. What keywords will you select ? At Webzzle, we analyse the Web page from which you want to know more (chen you click 'explore' and send one query to Webzzle (to get Real-Time knowledge from the community) and many queries to Google in order to help you find the best results in 1 click instead of multiples keywords queries by yourself in the Google search interface.
I for one am still confused. I went to the wikipedia page for "disco" and hit Explore. It took me to a webzzle page with a link to a disco band and a list of top disco songs, then a google "enhanced results" list which was basically the standard google results for "disco" but with only results related to music. For example, the Mac burning software "Disco" is #2 on google, but didn't appear on the webzzle results. So I understand that it's working by not showing non-music-related results, but I still don't grasp the purpose. Please give an example of a usage of this program, for example: while at pageA I clicked Explore because I wanted to see X and these results helped me out.
You start to get it. We basically use Wikipedia content to build the semantic Web and try to dramatically improve the search results quality. We build the meaning based Web. Keywords don't handle the meaning.
The purpose of the explore feature is to save time for the user in the search results analysis process and get higher quality results : go straight to better results. As the community grows, the Webzzle results improve. It's the knowledge network effect.
