Comments on: Jason Calacanis Building the Next Google?

By: Webmaster Money

Webmaster Money — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:57:20 +0000

Sounds to be interesting to have combination of Wikipedia and Google.

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:01:28 +0000

Yep, I doubt that the SEO community would help hype anything that came from Calcanis anymore and I also bet it would be very spamtastic

By: BigSlick

BigSlick — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:22:03 +0000

It’ll be spam-tacular.

By: Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:17:19 +0000

“when do you project to pass Wikipedia in terms of popularity?”

I haven’t got a single clue. It all depends on how quickly we build up our body of articles. We’re growing exponentially, as Wikipedia did from the beginning, but it’s hard to know in advance how steep the growth curve will be.

By: SEOrefugee

SEOrefugee — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:13:11 +0000

Didn’t we already try this whole user input search engine thing? Didn’t SEs used to use click data to rank sites? Didn’t that lead to some incredibly successful spamming?

What makes Calacanis (or any of these other Google killers) think that their SE would be any different? People game all the social sites that are out there now. People buy votes, spam for links, and all sorts of other crazy stuff. How does this seem like a firm foundation to build a search engine on?

By: Jeremy Luebke

Jeremy Luebke — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:50:36 +0000

I can with confidence say that any search product launched by Jason Calacanis will be the most heavily spammed SE on the planet out of pure principle.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:43:56 +0000

Thanks Larry – when do you project to pass Wikipedia in terms of popularity?

By: Larry Sanger

Larry Sanger — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:21:10 +0000

“the latter hasnâ€™t exactly set the world on fire since its launch.”

It takes time to set the whole world on fire. We’ve definitely made great progress since launch, increasing our “live” article almost by 50% (over 1700) and almost doubling our number of authors. Arguably, we’re looking better now than Wikipedia did after six months…

By: Jason Calacanis Wants To Be The Next Mark Cuban | Jim Kukral Online Marketing Consulting 1-888-BLOG-BIZ

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:02:36 +0000

[...] The word is on the street that he’s going to try and take on Google and build a search engine. So what’s the idea? It’s a cross between Wikipedia and Google. Calacanis’ new site will create more digestible search results for popular queries such as the names of Hollywood stars, and tech products. The pages will be seeded, initially, with content gathered automatically from the web and other sources. But they will be open to contributions by readers. Sounds like Wikipedia? Yes: except Calacanis will employ paid editors to oversee the pages. [...]