From their site: “At Topicle, our goal is to enable users to easily find more relevant information on the Internet, with you – the Topicle community – as experts. We want to generate more precise and useful search results with sources recommended by humans than solely with computer-generated algorithms.”

With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle’s world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.

All Topicle search engines are open, and everyone can contribute by adding URLs and rating existing URLs. Just like anyone can author articles on Wikipedia, anyone can create and enhance search engines on Topicle. With everyone’s help, Topicle search engines will get better and better over time.

Here is an example:

You like cooking (we hope you do) and you create a Topicle search engine called “Best Recipe Sites”. You and other community members can add their favorite cooking URLs to the Topicle search engine you just created.

Want to make ratatouille? Select the Best Recipe Sites search engine and enter “ratatouille”. You will only get high quality ratatouille recipes. No information on the movie “Ratatouille”, no Wikipedia entries, no Disney links and no definitions. Of course, this assumes that your search engine has been “fed” with the right URLs. You might only need a handful of them.

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