Comments on: Crowdsourcing an Opinion

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:26 +0000

Interesting points – they surely got the publicity they were probably looking for. I saw it on MSN, and on my Mobile news on the iPhone. It will be interesting to see how their page ranking works. I tend to think in those terms as a web worker and SEO pusher.

Jake
NoteScribe: Premier Note Taking Software

By: friarminor

friarminor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:52:40 +0000

Considering that they were able to elicit those kinds of reaction, I thought they got what they wanted. Now, it’s time for them to re-assess that vision and move forward and incorporating the unsolicited advices.

I admit I use Google to the max but you just can’t have ’steaks’ all the time.

Good luck to them.

Best.
alain
Mor.ph

By: Mike Gale

Mike Gale — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:29:31 +0000

I’m reserving my judgement. I assume that they are having teething problems at present.

I noticed a couple of things I’ll keep an eye on:

1) Images from one site used to illustrate another. This includes images protected (?) by a nocache directive.

2) Content repeates. At least 3 times on same page.

3) A lot of links to another search site, that looks like a link farm to me. What about primary links, instead of secondary.

3) Some great finds, better than other search engines I think, though not always well connected to the search. Mixed with dead pages and pages containing only a sentence of content.

4) Not much help/FAQ/Forum… yet

Looks like the PR people jumped the gun (when I first heard of it the search page was not even live, which clearly says premature publicity). I’ll give it a few days to settle down.

By: Johnw

Johnw — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:00:32 +0000

Just tried it. It was extremely short of returns. my two first seraches produced none, and it wasn’t particularly fast either.

Won’t bother in the short term here.

By: Troy Peterson

Troy Peterson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:13:08 +0000

Exactly! I’m writing up a review and search plugin for the site right now. While I will have some good things to say, I’m also going to point out some of it’s flaws. Claiming to be bigger than Google, yet not being able to deliver is a big mistake.

But then again… I suppose even bad publicity is still publicity. I just saw the story on CNN about an hour ago. Now, how many new search engines actually get that kind of coverage?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:48:44 +0000

Yeah, far too easy for the masses to speak up. haha. I’ve learned that quickly being a web worker. Especially after viewing the 3G iPhone release hate/love posts on every website in existence, seemingly! I swung by Cuil this morning, and it’s to early to determine an opinion. I think right now I like Google’s lay out, but I’ve been using Google for so many years it’s not a fair opinion! We’ll see what they come up with in the coming weeks.

Jake
NoteScribe: Premier Note Taking Software

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Another dynamic is the urge to opinionate fast… it’s an open issue how many speakers will want to own their Day One opinions a week or month from now.

(Looking at the Techmeme cluster on Cuil, it’s a reasonable bet that not all these speakers are saying things worth the mouseclick.)

Handling crowd expectations is hard. Best policy is usually to under-promise, over-deliver, and play for the long term. But when third-party pundits set the expectations, you may not have much role in how your efforts are perceived.

Then again, just so long as they spell your name right…. ;-)