Search? Realy?
Earlier today I was tipped by Doug about site name Rollyo.com . I guess Doug figured out my dislike for this type of companies.
I’m not sure how this Rollyo supposed to work but the premise is that one creates personalized searches which other can browse. Can someone explain me why should I let everyone browse my searches? Orwhy should I care about someone elses searches.
It seems very much like the first bubble when many companies opened trying to do “Something” with this internet thing hoping to be bought before the VC money is over. This Web 2.0 “thing” mean nothing if you do not create real value ans answer real need. The long tail is a very good observation but I think that the companies that made money implementing it were selling allot of products not only the weirdest one.
It is not enough to use someones innovation with open APImix it with tags and AJaX to create value. It takes much more.
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I am proud of the fact that we built this on top of the Yahoo API in order to give people the fast and powerful results they expect while giving them the ability to further customize their experience.
Tough to criticize a product without trying it and then to question a business model while criticizing the effort for being frugal and efficient, no? (I mean even in the blogosphere...)
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this is all fine and I'll be willing to take what I wrote back if you will be able to convince me that:
1. there is added value for people (the large population not the early adopter that will try every new service) to share searches. Your business model is based on the assumption that the public will share - I do not see it happened. The following link discuss it better than me: http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2005/12/05...
2. Thay you developed real search methodology and not just ride on Yahoo capabilities.
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The sharing is a good way to discover new resources or find information based on the domain expertise of someone else. For example, I don't know much about digital cameras. But my friend does. So I used his search engine to pull up reviews and it greatly shortened the duration of and improved my search experience.
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