Spider or humen eye? Which way is best to find information, sort it, rank in search results, and delete spam. Stumpedia is a new human powered search engine launched earlier this year. Every user can submit website, recommend website for specific search query, and rank websites which was submitted by other users.

 Social network or search engine? Stumpedia looks like StumbleUpon integrated with Google. Users allowed to give thumb up or down for specific search result.

 SEO point of view. Stumpedia script allow Google, Yahoo, and MSN to crawl user profiles, submitted links, link details, and even popular search results.

 How Is Stumpedia Different?

Stumpedia takes a different approach to human-powered search than competing sites Mahalo and Wikia Search. For example, the relevancy of search results at Mahalo is determined by their staff whose underlying motive is to profit from their own internally produced and hosted content. Wikia Search takes the Wikipedia approach to creating and hosting collaborative content pages.

Where Stumpedia is unique is the fact that it enables registered users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases. The relevancy of search results are then ranked and rated by the volunteer community through the ability to vote listings up or down (much like Digg, Mixx and Sphinn). Unlike Mahalo and Wikia Search, Stumpedia is not a content producer or provider and as such does not host any content pages. Furthermore, unlike traditional search engines they do not use bots or crawlers. Quote from TheNextWeb

 Stumpedia is an eye catching network and you might find it addictive to use it.