Decision Making Engine: Hunch.com

Even though Microsoft’s Bing.com states that it is actually a search engine,guess what a true Decision engine has been launched recently Hunch.com. The moment you open Hunch.com it starts displaying you simple questions which you can enter or make a search request from the top search box.The more questions you answer the more your profile page become relevant to you.
Results are based on the collective knowledge of Hunch’s users. Hunch already has more than 2,500 possible topics, and Hunch users add new topics every day.
hunchMy guess would be that Hunch.com basically uses a big database of questions and then tries to map then when a user asks a questions. The mapping then goes on and answers are given according to general public opinion.By stating this I do not mean that the question you asked was asked before or prepared already by hunch what i meant was that it would use certain algorithms which use AI[ Artificial Intelligence] and tries to map how a general human brain answers to questions and then you get your answers.

How ever on making a decision request it shows you multiple options which you may like or not, you can even add your answer into the options.

Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, who worked on Yahoo Answers before she left Yahoo and is now running product design at Hunch, says: “Yahoo Answers is not the answer.”

The Website is cool but needs more participation in order to become a complete decision making tool.

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Ripul is a web designer and a tech enthusiast. He is an MBA & a computer science graduate.He is an advanced PHP developer and one of the founding members of 99Fusion.com. He loves web and gadgets. He currently works as a Product Manager at India's largest eCommerce portal for electronics LetsBuy.com.

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