Hunch
I have not yet grokked Hunch, the decision engine from flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and co., but from the coverage, the launch is a hit. Here's Caterina's post announcing it...
I have not yet grokked Hunch, the decision engine from flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and co., but from the coverage, the launch is a hit. Here's Caterina's post announcing it...
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hate to say it but you've got this all wrong. this is not been a good launch for Hunch because all too often the reaction is the same: people feel that it's an odd idea and a little too gimmicky to be taken seriously. That is my impression and, if you read the comments on Techcrunch, the same way that many have reacted.
I thing only time will prove and show us if it was a good lunch or not.
Hunch will likely fail or morph into something else because no one is ever going to make a serious decision based on this silly tool. Sad but true.
As it currently operates, Hunch is about the second-most stupid idea to come out of the search engine industry (after Google's PageRank nonsense).
Who in their right mind would allow a computer to make decisions for them?
Totally agree with michael which is why this is dead on arrival.
considering all of the questions it asked me, i could have done the research on my own and come to the same conclusion. i was asked what 25 questions total to be told i should by a hybrid.
It works fine for subjective type questions, but not so well when some hard logic could inform the reasoning process. This puts it in the same market as Aardvark, see: http://kiamchoo.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/hunch-the-ultimate-web-2-0-search-engine/
Hunch's rival, www.LetSimonDecide.com, seems to be having a good launch - probably because expectations are lower.
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Had a quick go, seemed to be ok, will be watching it further, especially as i have an indecisive girlfriend, will recommend it to her and see if she improves :-) Matt.
I thing only time will prove and show us if it was a good lunch or not.
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