The Hunch Engine

The Hunch Engine is a new application developed by Icosystem that builds upon human inituition. It’s a "way of doing search when you don’t really know what you are looking for, but you’ll know it when you find it." For example, they created a hunch engine to search through the flickr image library. The way it works is described on their site like this: "The user clicks on one or more images that he or she finds "interesting", and then clicks the evolve button. The Hunch Engine returns a new batch of images that are mutations of those selected by the user." There is a screenshot of their demo here, but no link that lets you actually use it yet. Fascinating, isn’t it? I hope that we will all be able to test this ourselves soon, but in the meantime, it may be good to keep tabs on their site for news.