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Once you're #1 on Google searches for half of the published corpus of humanity you stop caring about little things like that... Surprised storygraph even has th
by p3rls 2y ago
Once you're #1 on Google searches for half of the published corpus of humanity you stop caring about little things like that... Surprised storygraph even has that many users when they're nowhere on Google when I search books.
- Grimblewald 2y agowell, books and book related stuff tend to propagate more through word of mouth than direct search or advertisement.
- p3rls 2y agoI mean I'd bet 90% of goodreads users are just googling quotes but yeah this girl got her timing right, Amazon bought goodreads and then just sat on it for like a decade... Storygraph would never ever be able to compete with goodreads on search, so they sorta had to pivot to winning on social and stickiness.
- rafram 2y ago> this girl Seriously think about whether you’d refer to an adult male startup founder as a “boy.”
- p3rls 2y ago[flagged]
- kashunstva 2y ago> ...fascist. Ad hominem comments are out-of-guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
- p3rls 2y agoGood heavens I'd have to create another account on an internet website! What horrors shall befall me next?