Me.dium’s Social Search builds its search indexes as people surf the web. As people visit a site, and spend time and attention on it, the site gets ranked higher within seconds. As a result, when you enter a search term, the Me.dium Search results are sorted and presented based on what people are actually looking at in relation to your search term – in essence, where the crowds are online and what they’ve found relevant and useful in relation to your search term.

By installing the Me.dium Social toolbar (http://me.dium.com), you are helping to influence search results. The more people we have contributing to search, the wider-spread our results will be. However, we also leverage the Yahoo! Search BOSS™ open web services platform so the result is crowd-powered information on top of traditional search.

Again, thanks for your feedback! Feel free to email me with any questions: Jboyle@me.dium.com Take care!