Comments on: Brainstorm: Tips to Beat Google

By: Daniel B. Honigman

Daniel B. Honigman — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:24:35 +0000

Unfortunately, my dealings with Yahoo lead me to believe that Yahoo is overly compartmentalized and has become like any other faceless corporation, e.g. Microsoft. Instead of focusing on being innovative, they look to buy smaller, more nimble companies with attractive, one-of-a-kind Web properties.

In short, it’s not a cool Web start-up anymore. And that’s too bad.

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:31:10 +0000

i agree with sebastian that open source isn’t necessarily the solution. my point is that anything short of google licensing their algorithms will result in wasted effort by microsoft and yahoo. but google won’t anyway…so continues the debate…

By: Sebastian Lewis

Sebastian Lewis — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:32:35 +0000

Here’s a hint: People don’t use Google so they can stare at ads all day. They use it to find useful information, if the Ads help, then great, but that’s just the business model keeping Google profitable. If Google’s search share goes down, then so does their Ad revenue, unless the overall market continues to grow.

Sebastian

By: Sebastian Lewis

Sebastian Lewis — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:24:41 +0000

The difference is that a sum of the human population makes a terrible group of people to review what people should and shouldn’t read about. Everyone has their own agenda and their own interests and only a subset of the population will bother with Digg.

It doesn’t help that every popular article is a war zone in the comments.

Google, Yahoo, and any other Search Engine uses automation looking for relevant websites based on the query, and provides tools to refine your search, something Digg could never match.

Sebastian

By: Sebastian Lewis

Sebastian Lewis — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:20:57 +0000

Wrong!

Open Source is a terrible business model to place everything in, especially if it’s in that ridiculous GNU license (I rather prefer BSD) that sucks the business and competition out of software, turning it more into a services industry for software vendors.

Take Mac OS X for example. A huge chunk of it is Open Source, but Apple combines it with their own proprietary technology (Quicktime’s Media Layer, for example, and the bundled applications like iCal, Mail, or iChat AV) and stick it on their hardware. Apple has the best of both worlds, a competitive advantage and the open source advantage (mainly stable and existing code which can be modified for their own use allowing for faster development cycles) allowing for a better product.

Google can’t, won’t, and shouldn’t give away their competitive advantage.

Sebastian

By: Sebastian Lewis

Sebastian Lewis — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:08:24 +0000

I don’t want Microsoft touching my Flickr or del.icio.us accounts. More to the point, I don’t want them near any service I actually use.

Sebastian

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:20:36 +0000

MicroHoo?

By: Daniel B. Honigman

Daniel B. Honigman — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:02:40 +0000

How about this-

Tip #1 to beating Google: Merge Yahoo and Microsoft.

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webee | will google be the new microsoft? — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:35:07 +0000

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By: Zeno Davatz

Zeno Davatz — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:16:05 +0000

Thanks for this post. I agree.
I believe that Google will eventually have to OpenSource its search algorithms to survive. Software that is not OpenSource will not be able to compete in the long run. Yahoo is not so far behind Google. They just have to focus more on content recognition.