I just got a news letter that has an article about "The death of AltaVista and AlltheWeb". How depressing. What a waste, in my opinion. To take AltaVista, AlltheWeb, and Inktomi and transform those 3 valuable properties into one Yahoo will not result in a sum that is anywhere near the value of it's parts.
I mean, come on...? You have 4 valuable properties and now you have one? Ok, two. I was not including Overture, since it's not a search engine, it's an ad server. A big ad server, but it's still an ad server.
The image I'm getting, with my limited knowledge of the facts about what is going on, is that Yahoo did not really buy Overture, but what really happend is that Overture got Yahoo to buy them and is now in the process of taking Yahoo over. OYahoo. Yahoo had a much stronger brand since Overture was dumb enough to drop Goto.com as a brand.
I think Google will rise above all this crap and I really hope so.
But I think it's time to consider what I will call "Open Search" for lack of a better name.
Google has many thousands of servers that make it what it is. Why can't we have the same thing made up of many thousands of servers all owned by different people and all contrubuting to and drawing from a huge network store of pure search data?
Why do I have to submit a client's site to a couple hundered search engines and directories over and over and over? Most of them are all different from each other, but are looking for the same basic information about a web resource. And in the same way, why do all of these site owners have to wade through all the submssions and delete countless bad and spam entries over and over.
What if there was a "trusted feed" system where only certain sites could enter site listings and other site owners would know that the listings were accurate and conformed to basic listing standards?
Why does this stuff have to be so complex and difficult?
(hris
I mean, come on...? You have 4 valuable properties and now you have one? Ok, two. I was not including Overture, since it's not a search engine, it's an ad server. A big ad server, but it's still an ad server.
The image I'm getting, with my limited knowledge of the facts about what is going on, is that Yahoo did not really buy Overture, but what really happend is that Overture got Yahoo to buy them and is now in the process of taking Yahoo over. OYahoo. Yahoo had a much stronger brand since Overture was dumb enough to drop Goto.com as a brand.
I think Google will rise above all this crap and I really hope so.
But I think it's time to consider what I will call "Open Search" for lack of a better name.
Google has many thousands of servers that make it what it is. Why can't we have the same thing made up of many thousands of servers all owned by different people and all contrubuting to and drawing from a huge network store of pure search data?
Why do I have to submit a client's site to a couple hundered search engines and directories over and over and over? Most of them are all different from each other, but are looking for the same basic information about a web resource. And in the same way, why do all of these site owners have to wade through all the submssions and delete countless bad and spam entries over and over.
What if there was a "trusted feed" system where only certain sites could enter site listings and other site owners would know that the listings were accurate and conformed to basic listing standards?
Why does this stuff have to be so complex and difficult?
(hris
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