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Quixey was the lead sponsor at a large college hackathon (I think LA Hacks) I was at a couple years ago. They were trying to build a search engine based on deep
by clay_to_n 10y ago
Quixey was the lead sponsor at a large college hackathon (I think LA Hacks) I was at a couple years ago. They were trying to build a search engine based on deep-linking into other mobile apps. A very good idea ("why doesn't google also search your phone's apps?"), but very hard to beat Google at it. The value needs to be very strong to get people to use it as a default search engine.
- angry-hacker 10y agoGoogle does index the content of apps that is not available on the web if you want and let them do it. But you see them in serps only the if you have the apps in question installed.
- sriku 10y agoQuixey's tech could do it without the "if you want and let them do it" part .. by which I don't mean permissions, but that no special arrangements need to be made by the apps. It is analogous to how google crawls websites with Javascript .. which are essentially applications that need to be "run" before you can get to their content.
- _fizz_buzz_ 10y ago> The value needs to be very strong to get people to use it as a default search engine. I am not sure if this is true. It seems to me switching search engines is rather painless. I think if someone were to provide the same search quality as google and offer e.g. more privacy a lot of people would switch. Switching search engines is a lot easier than switching social networks or email provider.