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I think this has been tried, although I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. It'd be really interesting to find out why it didn't work well.
by thenomad 13y ago
I think this has been tried, although I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.
It'd be really interesting to find out why it didn't work well.
- jokoon 13y agoI think it's a niche market because it would deal with businesses, and also with people who are lonely which is the subject of the article. I don't think it would really be a success at first, but the fact facebook never tried something like that always frustrated me. I guess they did not implement it because they don't want to put complex features like this, and that's understandable. But sometimes an economy can work much better when detailed information is available about what's around your home, which is not the case today. Companies do use advertisement, but single individuals don't and companies don't wait for people to search for their product, and I'm sure there are ways to advertise yourself if you skip the dating stuff, and let everyone post their interests so it can searched and found by people around you. Advertisement only gives voice to people who can afford it because there are too few room for it. The real problem here is the number of participants (you need a big sample if you want users to find matches) and how it cannot be datamined. I think it would work if it was anonymised and if it would encourage private talks. I don't understand why google did not try that, they know how to effectively sort data by topic and category.