[Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability
Jason McCabe Calacanis
jason at calacanis.com
Sat Jun 2 23:29:37 UTC 2007
Well, the approach at mahalo is to use humans--paid ones with health care and all--to hand write the first 10,000. Check it out at mahalo.com.
Figuring out what comes after 10,000--social, machines, combo--is up for grabs I think.
J
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Aerik Sylvan" <aerik at thesylvans.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:27:37
To:search-l at wikia.com, jason at calacanis.com
Subject: Re: [Search-l] Fwd: more than just interoperability
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.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.<br><br>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.
<br><br>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...?<br><br>Best Regards,<br>Aerik<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Calacanis</b> <<a href="mailto:jason at calacanis.com">jason at calacanis.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> So, since Wikia is a for-profit venture, perhaps it makes sense to look into<br>> licensing some data from closed providers (stumbleupon, for instance - since<br>> <a href="http://del.icio.us/yahoo">del.icio.us/yahoo
</a> is unlikely to want to feed a competing search engine).<br>> Aerik<br><br>Chances of getting EBAY or Yahoo to give up StumbleUpon or Delicious<br>data are very, very low--like NFW low. They paid millions for those
<br>services and see<br>them as major competitive advantages for their multi-billion dollar<br>businesses--they won't give that kind of ammo to someone as<br>"dangerous" as Jimmy Wales.<br><br>best j<br>---------------------
<br>Jason McCabe Calacanis<br><a href="http://www.mahalo.com">www.mahalo.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br>
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