Web 2.0 Search Engine Wink Launches

So if I am understanding this correctly, Wink uses the data from a number of social-powered sites like Digg and Slashdot to create their content? Cool, works for me!

Wink, a search engine that compiles tagged Web-links from user-powered sites, publicly launched on Thursday. Since privately launching in October, Wink’s network has grown to include Slashdot and Digg–two reader-prioritized tech-heavy news aggregators–as well as My Web 2.0, Yahoo!’s “social search engine,” and Del.icio.us, the bookmark-sharing site that Yahoo! just acquired. Wink and its people-powered brethren represent a departure from algorithmic search, which Google all but dominates. As Michael Tanne, Wink founder and CEO, explained, socially prioritized applications–known collectively among tech-elites as Web 2.0–go beyond bookmarking sites to include social networks, photo sharing, Wikis, and ratings and reviews, plus whatever new applications have yet to emerge. [Read the rest]