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As someone who tried to compete with Google in search, it strikes me that everything he brings up was also true, and well known, in 2007 when we started Blekko.
by greglindahl 9y ago
As someone who tried to compete with Google in search, it strikes me that everything he brings up was also true, and well known, in 2007 when we started Blekko.
Cuil, SearchMe, and Blekko didn't fall into the UI trap that he outlines. None of us succeeded that well, but that's a different issue.
- ProxCoques 9y agoI remember thinking "SearchMe" was a rather odd name at the time. But why, exactly? Search me.
- murukesh_s 9y agoWhat happened to Blekko? If you don't mind about sharing the "different issue"!
- greglindahl 9y agoWell, it's always hard to say why something didn't work, but we certainly tried a very different user interface with our Izik UI, in which ambiguous queries got up to 200 answers organized into categories.
- Nuzzerino 9y agoI'm curious as to how it failed. Did people use the site, and hate it? Did people join and then not return, or were those metrics unavailable? Were the operating costs abnormally high? Did the company receive a lot of users, but fail to receive enough revenue to cover even a normal amount of operating costs? Seems like one could narrow it down with the help of today's analytics tools. I'm also curious if you have kept up with other web search technology efforts since then or whether you moved away to other things. There's definitely some things that don't add up.