What is "volunia"

Volunia was a web search engine (or social search engine) created by Massimo Marchiori. It was launched in beta only for registered power users on February 6, 2012 and went live on June 14, 2012. Volunia, dubbed as "the search engine of the future", was speculated to be based on Hyper Search technology. On June 8, 2012 Marchiori announced with an open letter that he had been excluded from his project: six days later, on June 14, 2012 the site went live, but it ceased to operate in February 2014.