People Power Fuels New Search Engine

May 31, 2007 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- While the Internet's major search engines keep adding more computers to scan the Web and run increasingly sophisticated algorithms to pull up meaningful results, dot-com luminary Jason Calacanis thinks there's still a place for people power.

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