The Sproose search engine has adopted the blinkx video search index and put its own voting system on top of it.

The Sproose video search engine uses the same database as the popular blinkx search tool. So far there is nothing extraordinary about it.

A democratic video search engine

However, Sproose has added its own “Digg-like” interface to video search, giving voting power to its registered members.

It goes like this:

Sign up for a free membership. Then vote for the results/pages/videos you like by clicking om a special icon found to the left of any search result listing. The icon will tell any visitor how many registered searchers have voted for this particular page or video.

You may also add a comment for others to read.

There is a link to the personal profile of the latest voter. There you can see all the pages or videos that person has voted for (unless he or she decides to keep this information private.

Then there is a a link to a list of all the comments related to one particular search result. The comment system actually allows for a discussion among Sproose members, turning it into a Web 2.0 community.

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