Comments on: Could Digg Ever Rival a Search Engine? http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mexico501 » Blog Archive » Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine? http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1995 Mexico501 » Blog Archive » Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine? Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:50:51 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-1995 [...] Page Summary: So, why not cut out the proxy?Of course, the crawler would make or break the implementation. If the fresh diggs posted by the crawler were total garbage, nothing would ever get traction because any half-decent post would drown in the noise, and digg would crumble. The secret sauce in the crawler could make digg comprehensive without drowning users in a sea of adsense leeches and spam. Would you then expect that as Flickr grows larger that its interestingness will also revert to the mean.read more | digg story [...] [...] Page Summary: So, why not cut out the proxy?Of course, the crawler would make or break the implementation. If the fresh diggs posted by the crawler were total garbage, nothing would ever get traction because any half-decent post would drown in the noise, and digg would crumble. The secret sauce in the crawler could make digg comprehensive without drowning users in a sea of adsense leeches and spam. Would you then expect that as Flickr grows larger that its interestingness will also revert to the mean.read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine? http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-447 EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Could Digg Ever Rival A Search Engine? Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:25:21 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-447 [...] VC Andrew Parker debates whether or not digg could ever compete with specialty search engines, if it could gather enough meaningful articles at a rapid pace…read more | digg story [...] [...] VC Andrew Parker debates whether or not digg could ever compete with specialty search engines, if it could gather enough meaningful articles at a rapid pace…read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Digg at The Gong Show http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Digg at The Gong Show Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:42:08 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-444 [...] My post on whether or not Digg could be leveraged as a search engine was the target of the Digg. It’s not a particularly good post. It obviously made the front page because it’s a sensational idea to the Digg community. I don’t think more than 20% of the commenters over at Digg actually read it, considering the contents of their comments. [...] [...] My post on whether or not Digg could be leveraged as a search engine was the target of the Digg. It’s not a particularly good post. It obviously made the front page because it’s a sensational idea to the Digg community. I don’t think more than 20% of the commenters over at Digg actually read it, considering the contents of their comments. [...]

]]> By: Andrew Parker http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Andrew Parker Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:37:35 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-442 Looks like this post got dugg, and I have been officially defamed in the comments of the digg post. Brutal. To set the record straight for anyone else coming from digg. I'm not a VC, though I do work in VC. Furthermore, I don't necessarily think this is going to happen; it's a thought experiment. Ponderings... Anyway, glad to know my hosting can survive being dugg. Looks like this post got dugg, and I have been officially defamed in the comments of the digg post. Brutal. To set the record straight for anyone else coming from digg. I’m not a VC, though I do work in VC. Furthermore, I don’t necessarily think this is going to happen; it’s a thought experiment. Ponderings… Anyway, glad to know my hosting can survive being dugg.

]]> By: Mike http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Mike Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:47:11 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-438 What in the world makes you compair a search engine with a website? Its apples and oranges What in the world makes you compair a search engine with a website?

Its apples and oranges

]]> By: Adam http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Adam Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:02:22 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-436 delicious was sold to Yahoo? I guess I missed that headline! :( delicious was sold to Yahoo? I guess I missed that headline!
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]]> By: The Gong Show :: Netscape’s Digg-like Search Implementation http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-82 The Gong Show :: Netscape’s Digg-like Search Implementation Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:46:17 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-82 [...] A few weeks ago, I wrote a post wondering if Digg could ever be a competitive and comprehensive search engine.  Jason Calacanis has taken the first step by incorporating Netscape News results on top of Google results in the Netscape search page.  It’s worth a look, but it isn’t even close to being a Google replacement.  I still wonder if a bot that automatically crawls and adds stories to Netscape would be able to take this search implementation to the next level. Good luck Jason; I’ll be watching to see in what directions this project evolves. [...] [...] A few weeks ago, I wrote a post wondering if Digg could ever be a competitive and comprehensive search engine.  Jason Calacanis has taken the first step by incorporating Netscape News results on top of Google results in the Netscape search page.  It’s worth a look, but it isn’t even close to being a Google replacement.  I still wonder if a bot that automatically crawls and adds stories to Netscape would be able to take this search implementation to the next level. Good luck Jason; I’ll be watching to see in what directions this project evolves. [...]

]]> By: Andrew Parker http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Andrew Parker Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:49:37 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-24 Terrific comment Miles. Would you then expect that as Flickr grows larger that its interestingness will also revert to the mean? I suspect not, and whatever they do to prevent that problem is what would need to be leveraged here too. Terrific comment Miles. Would you then expect that as Flickr grows larger that its interestingness will also revert to the mean? I suspect not, and whatever they do to prevent that problem is what would need to be leveraged here too.

]]> By: Miles Shapiro http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Miles Shapiro Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:35:22 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-22 The Democracizing of Interestingness is an interesting idea in and of itself. But it is kind of like baseball statistics. The further back in history the more radical the variance, and the statistics are more notable because of the variance-- if and only if you factor in the steroid cheating. I think the Sabermaticians refer to it as "reversion to the mean." I think our democracy of interestingness has gone through a similar process. Britney Spears is interesting to the whole nation at large. So is Jessica Simpson and Linsay Lohan and everyone else you see online at the grocery store. They're intesting according to this democratic means of determining interest. It's worse in our country's politics (see: present day Oval Office). Mediocrity reigns via tyranny of the majority. Because these websites are by similar standards still in their inception, the variance in the "interest quotient" is then still quite wide, but time takes its toll on mountains and statistics I guess. The Democracizing of Interestingness is an interesting idea in and of itself. But it is kind of like baseball statistics. The further back in history the more radical the variance, and the statistics are more notable because of the variance– if and only if you factor in the steroid cheating. I think the Sabermaticians refer to it as “reversion to the mean.” I think our democracy of interestingness has gone through a similar process. Britney Spears is interesting to the whole nation at large. So is Jessica Simpson and Linsay Lohan and everyone else you see online at the grocery store. They’re intesting according to this democratic means of determining interest. It’s worse in our country’s politics (see: present day Oval Office). Mediocrity reigns via tyranny of the majority. Because these websites are by similar standards still in their inception, the variance in the “interest quotient” is then still quite wide, but time takes its toll on mountains and statistics I guess.

]]> By: fred http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-20 fred Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:56 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/08/18/could-digg-ever-rival-a-search-engine/#comment-20 that was where we were going with delicious before it was sold to Yahoo! i think that's an obvious thing to do with an index of URLs that is user generated try searching the web here http://del.icio.us/search/? that was where we were going with delicious before it was sold to Yahoo!

i think that’s an obvious thing to do with an index of URLs that is user generated

try searching the web here

http://del.icio.us/search/?

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