Those Bubbling Sites: Jig.com

With a slight delay, here is a quick review of the first website mentioned by John DiGilio in his SLA presentation. Namely: Jig.com

I'm going to go ahead and say that it is built like a search engine, but hear me out before you roll your eyes and exclaim "who needs another search engine?". 

You know when you need to find an accountant in York, or whether the Canon EOS Rebel T3i is better than the Canon EOS 5D Mark II for your needs, or not just a list of blogs about puppies, but some commentary on what people like and why? You probably Google it up, with a query like "account reviews in York" or "best puppy blogs", and get a list of links you examine one by one. 

What if instead of search results, you got actual answers? What if instead of search queries you asked actual questions? 

Hold that eye roll again: it's not another Q&A site either. Forget Quora, Mahalo and a plethora of others. Somehow Jig seems to have succeeded in merging these two worlds under an elegant userface and with very straightforward usability. It is not a site to ask about long opinions on the value of semeiotic studies. The query box starts with the words "I need" and you fill in the rest. 

The site was founded by Delicious creator Joshua Schachter, so we know we are in good hands already. Apparently a future development will be "offers" alongside the answers. Whether for products, services, both, I do not know, but I look forward to seeing how that will work. 

To be honest I can't quite put my finger on what it is (premise that I have been staring at my computer screen almost non-stop for 10.5 hours now, so excuse my reduced brain speed), but this is great. It makes the process of searching so much simpler, the replies are qualified and I like that you can turn those into a conversation to get a deeper understanding. 

Check it out, give it a go and let me know your thoughts, I'm curious as to how you will find this site.