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September 22, 2009I have an idea to build a search engine that would take the top 20 results from eac of the worlds top 5 search engines and merge them into one.
For example if you searched for Dog it would provide the top 20 results from Google mixed in with the Top 20 results from Yahoo etc.
This would mean that your search is not going to return something stupid like 1 million results, you would only get something like 100 of the most relevant results to your search.
Sort of like DogPile except better as mine wont mix paid ads with genuine search results. Also it will be better designed and more user friendly.
Do you think this would be a good idea?
Thanks Shaun
You have given me something to think about, also my results would be deduped so that its not returning the same results from each site.
Hi Eric
Read my question again, I already mentioned Dogpile.
Who is your target market (If you say "everyone who uses the internet," you loose)?
How does this solve a problem they have (could you write 10 pages about the problem? could you express it in one phrase?)
How will you communicate the message to them to make them want to use your service (probably several different ways after you do market research and should include a budget)?
What revenue plan will you use that doesn’t conflict with the message you are trying to convey (ie. if you are using ads on the side, but you spoon-feed them the most relevant search results, what convinces the users to click on the ads?)?
Yes it’s tough, but:
If you get this far and you have all the problems figured out, go ahead and finish the business plan. Good luck with it.
If you get stumped on something you can’t solve or someone can’t solve for you, congratulations on discovering the cheap way your business won’t work.
Horaayy..there are 3 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Being a person who googles all the time, am not sure it would work. The main reason being that I often find what I want in the later pages (sometimes 5th, 6th, 15th, never know) and also other than the advertised sites, the top results would be same or similar (especially the top 20). You most definitely would get good number of hits, but probably from people looking for very specific things and spell them right! I hope I did not disappoint you but gave you an opportunity to enhance your idea.
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It’s already been done – it’s called http://www.dogpile.com
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Who is your target market (If you say "everyone who uses the internet," you loose)?
How does this solve a problem they have (could you write 10 pages about the problem? could you express it in one phrase?)
How will you communicate the message to them to make them want to use your service (probably several different ways after you do market research and should include a budget)?
What revenue plan will you use that doesn’t conflict with the message you are trying to convey (ie. if you are using ads on the side, but you spoon-feed them the most relevant search results, what convinces the users to click on the ads?)?
Yes it’s tough, but:
If you get this far and you have all the problems figured out, go ahead and finish the business plan. Good luck with it.
If you get stumped on something you can’t solve or someone can’t solve for you, congratulations on discovering the cheap way your business won’t work.
References :