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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:32AM (#5220188)
Another reason this is dumb is that this is the kind of thing that Google doesn't much like. They don't want to index and rank content highly just for it to be mostly inaccessible.

I have no idea how much new traffic to Quora comes from organic search, but I have to imagine its not unsubstantial.

Re:ASK HN: Is there room for a new search engine? on Saturday October 01, 2011 @07:22PM (#3061451)
Yeah I think Blekko had a search engine monte thing where you could run a search blindly across 3 engines and see which ones were best. At least for me, no search engine came up on top.

The theory I'm working with is that its because they're all looking at the web as a series of web pages, instead of discrete objects or data.

So like a search for "2 bedroom apartment in new york with a doorman" awkwardly brings me results of web pages (that are SEO-ed to the hilt :). Instead, don't I just want a series of apartments that match my criteria?

And couldn't that data be fed from those offering this structured data in the first place such as Roomorama.com (the site I've been working on), or Airbnb or others?

Thanks for the reply :)

ASK HN: Is there room for a new search engine?

Posted by jim_shook on Saturday October 01, 2011 @02:21PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm relatively new in posting to the HN community, though I read it a bunch, and consistently find the discussion on here to be the most intelligent in tech. I figured it would be worth posting a concept I've been thinking about to hopefully get some good feedback. Not sure if its the right forum for something like that, but here goes.To begin, I do search engine marketing for Roomorama.com,...

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Re:Poke Holes in My Startup Idea on Monday March 14, 2011 @09:10PM (#2325356)
Certainly content based but not QA like Answers.com. And yeah I am familiar with All Top but it's not quite the same. What I envision is a single page for each news story that is a consolidation of all of the best content on that one story.

So tweets, links to articles, photos, videos, political cartoons, wikipedia links, etc.

Poke Holes in My Startup Idea

Posted by jim_shook on Monday March 14, 2011 @04:52PM
from the self-post dept.

Would be awesome to get some feedback on my idea.Here goes: Simply, to create a news site (and eventually mobile app) that aggregates the best content on the web for a given news topic ie "Egyptian Revolution" or "Japan Earthquake" on a single, digestible page.The key will be for the company itself to curate the best content (link to the best blog posts, editorials, infographics, videos, etc),...

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Re:Ask HN: Please destroy my startup idea so I don't waste time on it on Saturday March 05, 2011 @06:25PM (#2292804)
Personally, I think you are thinking too small. IMO there is a larger opportunity for a marketplace to buy and sell promotion for the long-tail of the web (niche content providers and small startups selling to a niche audience) across many mediums including newsletters but also company blogs, social media presences, forums, etc. Buysellads.com does it well, but I think there is room for another player who can execute in slightly different ways.

I actually have been thinking about this idea for a while and would love to chat more about it. I've been working on a travel industry startup for 2 years that has had a difficult time finding great/targeted advertising opportunities.