Own Mine is a meta search engine that uses GYMA to pull in results. They can either be seen individually or in combination. There is also a chat box that searchers can use to chat to others who are doing similar searches. The demo was a bit weird - it showed someone doing a search for a university, and it just so happened that another user of the engine was from the very same university. Chummy doing the search leaps into the chat box and asks for the best links to said university. To be honest - if I'm busy doing a search, I'm busy doing a search, and I'm not really that interested in stopping what I'm doing to help some random person on the way. Maybe that makes me a bad person, but that's just the way it is.
Second oddity about this engine is that it has some sort of really odd 'incentive scheme'. If you make the engine your home page, visit a certain amount of times, and/or introduce friends, you can get 'shares'. Are these real shares? Can you do anything with them? Are they worth anything? I have absolutely no clue and Own Mine isn't telling me either.
Nothing wrong with it as an engine I suppose - it does the same as plenty of others out there, but the live chat option really doesn't do it for me and the 'incentive scheme' just asks more questions than it answers.
Second oddity about this engine is that it has some sort of really odd 'incentive scheme'. If you make the engine your home page, visit a certain amount of times, and/or introduce friends, you can get 'shares'. Are these real shares? Can you do anything with them? Are they worth anything? I have absolutely no clue and Own Mine isn't telling me either.
Nothing wrong with it as an engine I suppose - it does the same as plenty of others out there, but the live chat option really doesn't do it for me and the 'incentive scheme' just asks more questions than it answers.
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That is quite true that if you are a busy person you won't help others but still there are lots of people who I think would stop by and try to help.
If someone has a query, he could go to a search engine and search over the web pages. There is also an another way to reach the solution you can ask the relevant person about the query. ex. If you want to purchase a bike, there might be lots of confusing web pages about bikes but firstly you would approach one of your friend who has good knowledge regarding bikes. that's what own mine is doing. Let's see it becomes successful or not.
Posted by: martha | November 28, 2008 at 05:15 AM
That's true that people won't stop by and help the other needy ones but there are a large no. of people who like to help others.
I think that's a new thing and so people won't easily accept it but sooner or later ownmine would make its place among the other websites.
Posted by: Ross | November 29, 2008 at 06:08 AM