[Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability

[Aerik Sylvan]

Hmm... I'd missed that stumbleupon was owned by ebay.  I guess I missed the
social bookmarking boom.  Maybe I still have time to ride the community
driven directory/search boom.

Well... I wonder if there are second tier partners that would make sense,
then.  And I wonder - Ebay is not in the search market - perhaps, for money,
they would license their data.

Here's another thought:  Try to get into more markets (and thus aggregate
more data) by presenting several faces of wikia-search.  A social
bookmarking service for instance.

But I still think that - infeasible as it may be - the greatest near term
chances to get results more relevant than what Google returns is to
aggregate lots moref human generated data.  Some Wikia can get directly from
users, but only some.

So, Jason, I was really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on my other
point - constantly pulling in fresh data and resisting the "entrenched
results" paradigm...?

Best Regards,
Aerik

On 6/2/07, Jason Calacanis <jason at calacanis.com> wrote:
>
> > So, since Wikia is a for-profit venture, perhaps it makes sense to look
> into
> > licensing some data from closed providers (stumbleupon, for instance -
> since
> > del.icio.us/yahoo is unlikely to want to feed a competing search
> engine).
> > Aerik
>
> Chances of getting EBAY or Yahoo to give up StumbleUpon or Delicious
> data are very, very low--like NFW low. They paid millions for those
> services and see
> them as major competitive advantages for their multi-billion dollar
> businesses--they won't give that kind of ammo to someone as
> "dangerous" as Jimmy Wales.
>
> best j
> ---------------------
> Jason McCabe Calacanis
> www.mahalo.com
>
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