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Take a Hunch – Bing is not a decision engine
By David Heath
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 20:20
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Currently Hunch is very US-focussed, so it is best to test something relevant to that audience.Perhaps this thing needs a little more work!
All contributions are both site and peer reviewed and obviously rely on a simple weight of agreement to become a significant part of the decision-making structure.
The more people involved, the better the resource, just like Wikipedia, I guess.
Hunch is the brainchild of Caterina Fake – previously a co-founder of Flickr and to quote her bio on the Hunch site: "We eat our own dog food around here. On Hunch's recommendation I've bought a laptop bag, a present for my daughter's nanny, and started tying my scarves differently. And have made a bunch of contributions which I hope will influence people to start listening to Kyuss, reading Cabinet magazine, and eating Lesley Stowe's Raincoast Crisps."
Hunch offers intra-site messaging for registered users and a large peer-based community already exists. As the site observes: "Hunch is a decision-making site that gets smarter the more it's used."
This is a genuine decision-making engine – all the decisions are provided by the users, unlike Bing where the decisions are hidden away in a bunch of (supposedly) smart computer algorithms. I recommend you use it – the more who do, the better it will be.
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