January 18, 2007

Social search engine Sproose surpasses 250,000 unique users 30 days out of beta

Sproose, a recently launched social search engine, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 unique users in just 30 days out of beta. Additionally Sproose has topped one- million voted websites.

Sproose allows users to vote for their favorite websites and rank the index according to the score given. This creates a personal index for each user and a weighted score of sites for all users.

Sproose has developed it's own web index from scratch while the ranking engine was built on a platform using a combination of proprietary algorithms and open source software and crawling technologies.

Sproose provides peer-moderated, ranking, prioritizing and community networking for consumer use. With its proprietary "Knowledge Rank" moderated directory technologies, Sproose users can effectively categorize and index sites, tailored for personal or group use.

Posted by Greg Jarboe at January 18, 2007 2:36 PM