Tusavvy today announced its public beta release enabling Internet users to search community knowledge in new way. zSoup is aggregating some quality URLs and public bookmarks people already take the time. After a year long development, the new engine Tusavvy has been built only with human-consumed and socially annotated web data.

It generates succinct results from the data collected by people instead of machines. When people want to search, the engine uses tags for index and ranks pages with social factor instead of link structure. Tusavvy is a unique engine in information foraging territory because it includes its own indexof pages deeper or sometimes not as easily linked to by others. Many experts, however, continue pointing out the shortcomings of human filtered data in scale. Interestingly, Tusavvy asserted that it collects sizable scale of the data – numbers are undisclosed at this moment – and embraces focus-crawling technique as well. Jae Ro, founder of the company noted that a generic search now is more like “drinking from broken water pipe.” And “People can not avoid flooded results out of retrieving the entire web.

This beta release is to let a broad user base access the core value of Tusavvy service.” he added The company explains that adopting human factors in search ranking will save significant time for users from digesting flooded results. It also unveils niche yet quality URLs rarelyfound in the first page of conventional search engines. About zSoup, Inc. Founded in September 2007, zSoup is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has an office in Austin, TX. The company is new startup firms originated by Korean entrepreneurs and specializes in a new aspect of community-driven search service.

Learn more about Tusavvy from Keren Dagan’s earlier post HERE.

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