Hakia is a health related semantic search engine that also verifies results and groups the types of resources (credible results, web, user generated, images, etc).
Hakia recently announced that they will now be soliciting help from librarians to make recommendations for credible web sites.
From hakia’s h CLUB page:
hakia is the first search engine to integrate librarians’ collective knowledge of credible Web sites into search results to guide searchers.
As the first commenter on the Mashable blog post points out, there is no evidence that they are paying for the librarian contributions. The commenter finds this “very condescending” because Librarians should be paid for their contributions.
Is hakia using savvy crowd sourcing methods or are they taking advantage of information professionals who are eager to help?
