[Sigia-l] IA search engine at Google

[Peter Van Dijck]

I'm just playing with it, I don't think this kind of vertical search
engine will necessarily be a success.. And yes, why would people
volunteer? No idea! :)

P

On 10/24/06, Dmitry Nekrasovski <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Peter Van Dijck <petervandijck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I made a search engine focused on IA at Google:
> > http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009152787519343903573%3At_jc5emfnco
> >
> > Anyone can volunteer to help build it :)
>
> So let me ask the obvious, if perhaps a little crass, question: Why
> would anyone volunteer to help build one, when anyone can build their
> own (and, as Lee points out, reap the right hand link benefits)?
>
> I do agree that this is probably the best idea Google has come up in a
> while. A bit reminiscent of Squidoo (which is also supposed to enable
> subject matter experts to put together collections of resources and
> profit from their expertise in the process). Unlike Squidoo though,
> this actually looks like it could be useful for end users.
>
> Dmitry
>


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