Moirasearch
www.moirasearch.nl (still under construction)
The search
engine Moirasearch generates questions instead of answers en confronts the user
with itself by the personal nature of its questions. Moirasesearch wants to
emancipate the user by forcing him to reflect on his own search and the
information coming through. The search engine helps one giving meaning to his
own question and give an overvalue to the given information. When a usesr
learns to reflect on the information he can reach himself closer and make
himself stronger. The engine doesn’t give answers, but keeps on asking
questions until the users in the end will formulate his own answer to his
question. This seems clear when he no longer needs questions or when the engine
says he no longer has questions left for the users.
Imagine you
look for information on the website of a school. You ask for information about
Economics. The engine Moirasearch, linked to this site, can ask you then: Why
do you ask this question? Or, Is it coincidence that you know what you’re
knowing now?
A search
engine like Google is willing to find out who you are by collection your search
history, but Moirasearch doesn’t want to know that at all. Moirasearch wants
the user to find out who he is for himself. This, to make sure that websites
like Google determine what kind of information a user gets, but the user
himself determines that. Moirasearch can function independently, but be a part
of other websites as well.
Final Products
The
questions Moiraseach asks are provocating and confronting at the same time. At
first the questions will be made by a philosopher. After that the questions can
be ‘translated’ by for instance the makers of ‘Loesje’ or a writer, rapper of
poetrist. Moirasearch
wants to be a facility that comes before a facility: when one knows better what
he needs, he can formulate a better question.
Contact
Stichting Behang
Saskia Korsten
www.saskiakorsten.com
