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The global recession of 2009 will probably go down in history as the precise time when newspapers, yellow pages directory, direct mail ads, and overall print advertising died. The death of print advertising bought new mediums and forms of real-time advertising that connected consumers with advertisers instantly. For consumers these new forms of advertising were non-intrusive and instantly available to them whenever convenient. For advertisers these new forms of advertising delivered precisely targeted leads at a significantly less cost than their predecessors. These new forms of advertising allowed both consumers and advertisers to engage in real-time communication from their mobile devices. Consumers were instantly empowered with the ability to negotiate prices and advertisers were rewarded with a stream of consumer leads. Twitter is one example of this new advertising medium and Pay-Per-Chat is another great example.

Now that the Wikia Search project has been shut down, Stumpedia is the only hope left for a democratic search engine.

Companies with commercial interests have unmerited exclusive authority to determine ranking and relevancy of public data.

The promotion of democracy and respect for human rights is a central aspect of development around the world.Censorship is detrimental to the fundamentals of our values and our freedom as individuals to choose and think for ourselves. Stumpedia’s moto of “Search For the People By The People” is powered by the very people that use it. 

We may be a bit biased here when we say that Stumpedia can help fix and alleviate the economic crisis that we are in today, but we believe we really can.  Within the next couple of days we will be launching our unique online advertising platform.  It’s a concept that empowers both consumers and advertisers and will be free for all of 2009.  Unlike the Pay-Per-Click model whereby advertisers bid on keywords and pay for clicks to their web site, Stumpedia’s Pay-Per-Chat model matches consumers inquires to advertisers in real-time. Users are presented with a non-obstructive dialog box every time they perform a keyword search that matches an advertiser’s business and are given the opportunity to directly contact those advertisers with just one simple request.

Consumers get personalized responses in the form of text messages which may include price quotes, estimates, and answers from advertisers that compete for their business within seconds, not hours or days. Advertisers get targeted online sales leads from real people with real consumer needs and pay only for the leads they respond to.

As an incentive and a little economic stimulus to help jump-start the global economy, we will be offering free advertising for all of 2009. The overall value proposition here is a more faithfully trackable internet advertising model for advertisers, something sorely lacking in the current Pay-Per-Click model. 

Stumpedia.com is disrupting the secretive mentality of traditional search. Companies with commercial interests have unmerited exclusive authority to determine ranking and relevancy of public data.

The promotion of democracy and respect for human rights is a central aspect of development around the world. Censorship is detrimental to the fundamentals of our values and our freedom as individuals to choose and think for ourselves. Stumpedia’s moto of “Search For the People By The People” is powered by the very people that use it.

In less than one year, Stumpedia has proven that people around the world are receptive to a change and that both democracy and capitalism are very much compatible. Social networking and social media are web technology trends that can have an impact on society and create positive change when properly executed. The key is to create a product that is engaging and empowers people, and Stumpedia has done that.

Join us in our mission to democratize search and the media.

Today we’re launching My Rank, a new way for you to customize and personalize your search results and bookmarks by re-ranking them. With just a single click you can now move search results up and down and change their position. These modifications and rankings will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. My Rank is available to signed-in Stumpedia users and changes will be stored to your Stumpedia Account.

This new feature also acts as a unique social bookmarking service allowing you to save your favorite sites using you own unique words or phrases as opposed to tags or categories like most other services. Please try it out and let us know what you think.

Stumpedia has reached two new milestones with its 3,000 registered member and 10,000 submitted link.  The Stumpedia community is what makes Stumpedia rock and it is because of you that we stay up late into the night writing new code and answering questions.  Please help us spread the message by inviting at least a few of your friends and colleagues to join Stumpedia.

Stumpedia is launching a new kind of paid content service called Stumpedia Articles that allows content creators to publish authoritative articles about a specific topic and earn 100% of the advertising revenue.  Unlike most other publishing platforms where advertising revenue is shared, Stumpedia allows content creators complete control and management of their ads.

We encourage both publishers and authors to contribute articles and make it easy for them to write and share their knowledge and interests with the world.  Our goal is to promote great content and help improve search relevancy on the Stumpedia search engine.

Please visit Stumpedia Articles to get started: http://articles.stumpedia.com

Social media has created a FREE level of communication that helps you establish connections and eliminates some of the barriers of entering a marketplace that can benefit from your passion and expertise.  Everyone can benefit from participating in social media. Social media is not about spamming or self promoting, it’s about building your reputation online, and active participation can lead to useful introductions among your peers.

Can social media jumpstart a new economy based on relationships?

Sticking to our theme and belief that human-powered social search is the future, we are excited to announce a new search feature that will enable our users and community members the opportunity to connect and chat with each other in real-time. Think of it as instant messaging meets Yahoo! Answers. This is another new and exciting way to meet new people and share your knowledge and interests with the world on Stumpedia.

The Real-Time Human-Powered Search Engine that connects you to your online peers.

You want to know if… You want to know how… You wonder which CD to buy for your friend’s birthday… You can sift through the multiple documents that search engines present you, scan the points of view displayed on your favorite forums, write a question and wait until somebody finds your request, or reflect upon the automated recommendations offered by your preferred vendors… What if you could also get a personalized response right away, in real-time? Just as you often seek help or advice from people around you in the offline world, why not leverage your virtual neighborhood’s expertise! This is what Stumpedia, using Muchobene, allows you to do in the simplest possible fashion.

Asking questions
Simply enter and submit your question from the Stumpedia Instant Answers page. You do not need to provide a profile, create a username or remember a password. Stumpedia selected the Muchobene power engine because it identifies and connects you in real-time to the people currently online who appear to be most competent to assist you - either in a given partner community or in other user groups. Converse freely and rate your conversation at the end.

Answering questions
You may also want to be able to answer questions and share your own experience. In this case, install the Muchobene plug-in. If Muchobene routes a question to you, a pop-up will appear and show you a question. You can accept the question and respond to it, or decline to answer. As the community grows your help will be requested every now and then. If you have chosen the Ask Me! status, you may be invited to participate more frequently.

Stumpedia is committed to offering you the best possible responses to your question at any given time based on who is online. However, we cannot guarantee that they will always be the absolute best responses. When you make a search using a standard text search engine, you are sometimes given conflicting statements and opinions. This is also true of a human-powered search engine. We all have to do our homework, evaluate information and make personal decisions. Yet we all like to have a relevant starting point. Using the Muchobene engine will certainly help you get started.

Thank you for taking part in the Stumpedia community.

“Search engine providers must delete or irreversibly anonymise personal data once they no longer serve the specified and legitimate purpose they were collected for ”

Here is the BBC article.