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? Its still in testing, but its something interesting to keep track of.