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| Type of business | Internet |
|---|---|
Type of site | Search Engine with user voting |
| Available in | English, German, French, Spanish |
| Headquarters | Danville, California, USA |
| Founder(s) | Bob Pack |
| URL | www |
| Advertising | CPC text ads |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | closed |
Sproose was a consumer search engine launched in August 2007[1] by founder Bob Pack. Sproose provided web search results from partners including MSN, Yahoo! and Ask.com. Sproose intended to have better-quality results than algorithmic search engines because its users were able to influence the ranking order of the search results by voting for websites (which moved them up in the order of search results) and deleting bad or spam results. It had been compared to Digg[2] and Mahalo.com,[3] among other social search websites.
The domain sproose.com is now owned by a British artist.
- ^ "Social search engine Sproose final now live", Lifehacker, August 29, 2007
- ^ "Sproose does social search, bookmarking", Webware, June 4, 2007
- ^ "Sproose: Human Powered Search Meets Digg", TechCrunch, June 1, 2007