Swicki

Last night I was roaming the Internet in search of tech trends and happened to come across a new trend for search (funny and bizarre cyclical nature: search for trend of search).

I happened to come across Swickis. It is the concept of a Wicki, but based on the concept of Searching. You may be wondering "what does this all mean?" Well, it's a search engine that learns from its users and then promotes popular items. A similar concept is a "link cloud", in which the font size of an http link grows in size as the importance/relevance grows.

Here's a good overview of Swicki concepts: http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/swicki.htm

And here is the company that is promoting the concept: http://swicki.eurekster.com/