{"id":552,"date":"2008-04-22T17:40:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/search-engine-news\/social-search-engine-mechanical-zoo\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:54:33","slug":"social-search-engine-mechanical-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/search-engine-news\/social-search-engine-mechanical-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Search Engine Mechanical Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNet News is reporting that some ex Google employees are working on a new social search engine.<\/p>\n<p>The site is called Mechanical Zoo and is scheduled for a beta launch in May.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Zoo is aiming to be an application ( rather than a regular web site ) that will allow people to search the knowledge in their social circle to find useful personal information and recommendations. Mechanical Zoo currently has 100 &#8220;alpha&#8221; users testing the search. The site will be a Yahoo Answers-type service, with more built-in knowledge about a person&#8217;s tastes and interests.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Zoo cofounder Max Ventilla, a former business development manager at Google, says &#8220;We&#8217;ve developed an online social structure that lets users reach out to people they already know&#8221; for answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9924964-7.html?tag=nefd.only\">News.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNet News is reporting that some ex Google employees are working on a new social search engine. The site is called Mechanical Zoo and is scheduled for a beta launch in May. Mechanical Zoo is aiming to be an application ( rather than a regular web site ) that will allow people to search the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/search-engine-news\/social-search-engine-mechanical-zoo\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Social Search Engine Mechanical Zoo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}