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Gravee is a community-powered, social search engine that personalizes results according to users’ interests based on bookmarks, tags, relevance voting, and the activity of other users with similar interests (in addition to our own proprietary relevance algorithm) to provide more accurate results.


How Gravee Works?

- Gravee Search - Gravee combines the results of many different search engines together for the best of all search algorithms in a single set of results. In addition, Gravee applies its own proprietary TagScore relevancy algorithm on top of that to further refine the quality our results. Here’s how it works:

- Vote on the Relevance of Search Results - By empowering our community of users to vote on the relevance of any of the individual results in their searches, they are able to refine our algorithm everytime they search! With one click, users can tell us whether or not any individual result was relevant for that particular search. This information is recorded and factored into our TagScore algorithm the next time anyone performs a similar search.

- Tag and Bookmark Search Results on Gravee - Gravee also enables users to add tags (a.k.a. additional keywords describing that content) to search results, as well create their own, free bookmark pages on Gravee.com to save their favorite Web pages, along with their own customizable notes and descriptions. And, users can do all of that right from Gravee’s search results without having to move back and forth between multiple pages, as well as from their personal bookmark pages.

- TagScore - By incorporating the results of several many different engines with all of our users’ voting, tagging and bookmarking into our proprietary TagScore search algorithm, our community is empowered to constantly help refine our search algorithm, and ultimately, the quality of our search results!


Our Vision - Community Powered Search

We know what you’re thinking: "Another search engine?!?"

But Gravee is much more than just another search engine or social bookmarking service.

Search engines have become the de facto content distribution channel for the Internet. Yet, unlike any other distribution industry (offline or online), many search engines do not view their suppliers (i.e. content owners) as true partners, nor do they view their search users (i.e. content consumers) as customers. Instead, this arms length relationship between many search engines and their communities has created angst for content owners as to how to best reach their consumers, as well as for how consumers can best provide feedback back to the original creators of that content. This disconnect between content producers and the consumers of that content prevents the creation of a virtuous cycle of feedback, which ultimately prevents all of us from creating and enjoying better and more valuable content on the Web.


Our mission is to:

  • Treat content creators as true partners in the search and distribution process
  • Treat content consumers and search users as valued customers
  • Create an equitable and transparent distribution channel for content owners
  • Create a more responsive and transparent feedback mechanism for content creators and their consumers
  • Enable a "virtuous cycle" of content creation and consumption on the Web that connects content owners more directly to their consumers

How We Are Different

Gravee is different in two very important ways: our business model and our algorithm. And, those differences are focused squarely on how we can better serve our community of users.

And, there are two halves to that community we’re talking about: 1) the content creators and Web site owners, who are creating most of the value in the search advertising equation; and 2) our search users, who find, bookmark, tag, and vote on that content through our search engine.

publisher-author
Gravee LLC
Version
Beta
License
Free
Created
2004/10/18
Platform
All Platforms
Money Back
n/a
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