valleywag.com — High on the "will this startup tank after five months" checklist is "Does this company want to be the next Google?" Here are the reasons that search engines like Clusty and Eurekster aren't catching on, and why one new search startup actually has a chance.
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Closed AccountOct 6, 2006
Anyone who buries fletchowns is just plain ignorant. The founder of McDonald's said he wasn't in the Hamburger business, he was in the real estate business. Same goes for Google. Your business is defined by your revenue stream. Unfortunately for Mr Kroc, he didn't know he was into the makenkidsfat business.
subrobotOct 6, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html">http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html</a>
taizoshiozakiOct 6, 2006
Hell, this entire "closed beta plug" is working against the Powerset guys. Who manages their PR ?
afrazkhanOct 6, 2006
Gah, natural language processing (NLP) has been around for a _long_ time, and it still hasn't gotten anywhere useful, at least not with search engines (where I believe a lot of the work is being done).The problem isn't that human language is complicated, (though it certainly is, and that causes headaches for NLP researchers), it's that it's ambigious. When another _human_ can't tell the difference betweek two meanings of one phrase, it is naive to think that a program which humans wrote can.
nicromaOct 6, 2006
With no web search function it is hard to believe.
fantasmaOct 6, 2006
Google is pretty much synonomous with search right now. Unless they suddenly collapse, nothing is going to replace it.
fletchownsOct 6, 2006
netdroid9, they built the search engine FOR the advertising portion of their business. Why create gmail or google calendar? Another place to put ads. Why have free wifi all over Mountain View? Ads ads and more ads.
sulfurusOct 7, 2006
First comment and you get the point.exactly.This smells to a lame self-promoting.
jslee0May 5, 2008
Googe replaced yahoo a few years ago. Who knows someone else will do that to Google?