AP Asks Startups What They Would Do With Google
The AP asked the heads of a bunch of startups what they would do next if they were Google. The answers are certainly interesting, coming from Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sifry, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton, Findory founder Greg Linden, and Blogads founder Henry Copeland. Sorry, Greg, but I thought Denton’s answer was both the most accurate (first paragraph) and interesting (second):
Nick Denton, publisher of the blog network company Gawker Media, wrote in an e-mail, “I would get search working, because the results are cluttered with commercial rubbish that ought really to be in the advertising zone. Try doing a search in a category such as travel, for instance, for Barcelona hotels. It’s useless.”
Denton wrote that Google search results would improve if they included links to archived newspaper, magazine and blog articles. “Buy the digital archive rights to every publication in the country. Buy Lexis-Nexis if necessary,” he wrote.
(via Greg Linden)
umm..
google new archive search already does exactly that!
Comment by me | October 21, 2006