Stumpedia Stalled?

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Stumpedia - a recent entry into the growing ranks of Human Powered Search engines. At the time, I wondered aloud about Stumpedia's value proposition. While honestly believe that real live people are the solution to the search relevancy issues we face today, Stumpedia seemed caught in a classic Catch 22. They're not crawling and rely on user link submission to build their index, but since the index is so sparse the results are poor (mostly non-existent) and thus there's little reason for anyone to adopt Stumpedia as a search service. But without users, how will they get links? You see where this is going.

Anyway, at the time I decided to start tracking the following (as reported on the Stumpedia home page):

• Registered Users
• Links
• Search Terms

A quick (and unattractive) excel graph shows the growth trend in all of these beginning to flat-line.

In addition to these slow growth trends, their company blog and forums have gone quiet. No posts to either in nearly two weeks. I hope they're off somewhere figuring out how they're going to bulk up their index, or they could be road-kill in the near future. I'll keep watching and report back.