To be clear, I wasn’t comparing the technology of Scoopler to Google or Technorati ( or Kosmix, or the other’s I mention).
I was focused on the challenge of any large-scale search/discovery-based business model. You have to create MASSIVE volume on the consumption side, and then you have to pair it with a business model which can support such a huge platform. In the case of Google it was intent-based advertising, and in the case of Kosmix I guess it trended towards ecommerce (one would assume given their eventual acquisition by Walmart).
The challenge is in the requisite scale of demand, and then the follow-on challenges of monetizing such demand. Thinking more along the lines of companies like Digg who were able to create a great deal of usage, but struggled to monetize (less about tech, and more about business model).
I appreciated then, and now, that real-time search is its own animal. And a very hard problem to solve.
And a much belated congrats to the Scoopler team on being acquired by Google!
I was focused on the challenge of any large-scale search/discovery-based business model. You have to create MASSIVE volume on the consumption side, and then you have to pair it with a business model which can support such a huge platform. In the case of Google it was intent-based advertising, and in the case of Kosmix I guess it trended towards ecommerce (one would assume given their eventual acquisition by Walmart).
The challenge is in the requisite scale of demand, and then the follow-on challenges of monetizing such demand. Thinking more along the lines of companies like Digg who were able to create a great deal of usage, but struggled to monetize (less about tech, and more about business model).
I appreciated then, and now, that real-time search is its own animal. And a very hard problem to solve.
And a much belated congrats to the Scoopler team on being acquired by Google!
My full reply to this comment can be found here:
http://roizen.blogs.com/ezra_roizen/2016/07/wow-ezra-roizen-...