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Re: Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups

Paul Duszk — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:29:21 -0000

I've never liked any of the video search engines I've come across. I have yet to find a multimedia search engine that gave good, relevant search results. One of the biggest problems with current multimedia search engines is the content. How many times have you searched for a video and found that 20%-60% of the results are duplicates of the same video/image that are located on different services posted by different people?

All I know is that if such a service did exist it would have to utilize OpenID. I'm tired of having to register everywhere and deal with setting up a whole new profile just to fully use a service.

Re: Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups

Charles Knight — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:44:24 -0000

Hello Jeff,

We would like to republish your letter on AltSearchEngines.

Please let me know if this is ok.

Charles Knight, editor
AltSearchEngines.com

Re: Open Letter: Attention All Search Engine Startups

Matt Hodges — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:27:25 -0000

Interesting. Reminds me of an former idea of yours.

Might I add... 'subscriptions' is another key feature. If I come across a webcast that I like, subscribing to it should be easy.

Anyway. This sounds like an awesome idea. The problem now isn't the 'what' its the 'how'. In order to accomplish something like this you need an excellent team of programmers and software engineers who can not only do these things, but also do them efficiently. Indexing the web is no easy task. Parsing the results is even harder. Making those results searchable, with good and relevant search results is harder yet.

I look forward to hearing more from you.