It's a search engine / social network prototype I've been working on.
My idea was to use a social network as the backbone of a search engine.
My thinking was that the majority of the internet doesn't need to be indexed, so why not just use the portion of the web that is offered up by users? If this sounds stupid, I would offer Hacker News as a working example of this model.
My other motivation was that the majority of platforms operate on a popular vote strategy, as a result, content that appeals to our lesser nature tends to do very well. YouTube, for example, could not support the development of content as ambitious as Avatar.
Content on Zohing is ranked using a "recursive voting" strategy. It attempts to find accounts that have been deemed by other users to be "high quality" and weight their interactions more.
Put simply: On the spectrum of Avatar to TLC I want creators to aim for Avatar. I am try to create a platform whose underlying game incentivizes the creation of difficult, high effort content instead of reality TV and cable news.
Zohing was created to function as a mobile web app. Getting it to work smoothly on iOS safari was a real challenge. I had to do some ugly hacks to get 2 way infinite scrolling to work. For version 2 I am going to go with a more conservative approach.
If you want to know how the recursive vote algorithm works or have any other questions you can email me at: surgeon@zohing.com
demo video: https://youtu.be/6ZOVIec4jWg?si=IyqsDHE6FXAbx8UT
It's a search engine / social network prototype I've been working on.
My idea was to use a social network as the backbone of a search engine.
My thinking was that the majority of the internet doesn't need to be indexed, so why not just use the portion of the web that is offered up by users? If this sounds stupid, I would offer Hacker News as a working example of this model.
My other motivation was that the majority of platforms operate on a popular vote strategy, as a result, content that appeals to our lesser nature tends to do very well. YouTube, for example, could not support the development of content as ambitious as Avatar.
Content on Zohing is ranked using a "recursive voting" strategy. It attempts to find accounts that have been deemed by other users to be "high quality" and weight their interactions more.
Put simply: On the spectrum of Avatar to TLC I want creators to aim for Avatar. I am try to create a platform whose underlying game incentivizes the creation of difficult, high effort content instead of reality TV and cable news.
Zohing was created to function as a mobile web app. Getting it to work smoothly on iOS safari was a real challenge. I had to do some ugly hacks to get 2 way infinite scrolling to work. For version 2 I am going to go with a more conservative approach.
If you want to know how the recursive vote algorithm works or have any other questions you can email me at: surgeon@zohing.com