Volunia

Volunia
Type of site
Web search engine
Available in12 languages
URLvolunia.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched6 February 2012 (official launch)
14 June 2012 (public launch)
Current statusDefunct

Volunia was a web search engine (or social search engine)[1][2][3] created by Massimo Marchiori.[4][5] It was launched in beta only for registered power users on February 6, 2012[6] and went live on June 14, 2012. Volunia, dubbed as "the search engine of the future",[7] was speculated to be based on Hyper Search technology.[8][9] On June 8, 2012, Marchiori announced with an open letter[10] that he had been excluded from his project:[11] six days later, on June 14, 2012, the site went live, but it ceased to operate in February 2014.

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  2. ^ Jha, Smriti (2012-02-07). "Volunia, Italian Professor's Search Engine To Rival Google". CrazyEngineers. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
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  5. ^ "TR100 Award Winner Launches new World-wide Search Engine". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
  6. ^ "Google's Search Algorithm Challenged". PC World. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
  7. ^ "Volunia – wyszukiwanie trzeciej generacji – PGS Tech" [Volunia – third generation searching] (in Polish). Tech.pgs-soft.com. Retrieved 2012-02-12. wyszukiwarka trzeciej generacji ... jak mogłaby wyglądać wyszukiwarka przyszłości
  8. ^ "Volunia an alternate to Google Search". WMNToday. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
  9. ^ People search Engine. Data Crowd. 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  10. ^ "Dico addio a Volunia e vi spiego perché" (in Italian). Divisione Stampa Nazionale — Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso.
  11. ^ "C'è baruffa su Volunia, l'anti-Google italiano; Il fondatore : "Mi hanno fatto fuori"" [Troubles on Volunia, the Italian anti-Google; the founder : "I have been kicked off"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2012-06-09.