Kratia is the first democratic search engine, in which the order of the results is democratically elected by the users, instead of being assigned by a computer algorithm.
This makes sense, because search relevance can only be assessed by the human mind.
Current search engine algorithms use the link structure of the web as a commodity which calculate search relevance. But this has a significant flaw, website owners have a considerable interest in being at the top of the search results and it's impossible to filter out good links from bad links.
When users are able to interact with the search engine, they can indicate wich results are the more relevant for a given query. Also, they can post comments and share information with other users.
In order to be available in Kratia, it is not necessary for a website to be linked from other websites. The only important thing is to have a good website for the users.
We try to be fair to everybody. All websites have the same possibility of achieving the top positions.
When trying to find a descriptive domain name, we thought of Kratia because is short, relates to the essence of the web, and is a new word not used in any language.
For first time searches, Kratia reads the results from Msn search, but could read them from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Gigablast or any other search engine that agrees to provide a search feed. Those search feeds are used by many metasearch engines.
Kratia is a unique metasearch engine in the sense that it only uses one search feed at the time.
Underneath of every result there are two links, I like it and I don't like it. You vote by clicking on these links, and only for this result on that search term.
Yes, but you have to wait one week before you can vote for the same result.
No, votes are deleted after a week of being submitted.
Yes! scores are divided by two every week, so, in one month any score is divided by 16! The gap between the first results and the rest is reduced this way, while maintaining the same order.
This way, if a new website is doing well, and users start voting it regularly, the website can gain top results in quite a short time.
