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Of course you are right, with such data you could build something like alexa. We are aware that this data is currently a tiny subset of the web and does not represent much, but it …

Yes, we will add metadata in the next dump, but currently the time_spent is all that matters. Our plans are to add categories, the language and rough information about the content …

Nice idea I think we should do that. Gerald, CTO blippex

We have some rate limits at our API in place, but of course it not that difficult to change an IP-address. But most important we wrote some algorithms which checks submitted URLs a…

Differentiating the quality of a dwell would be nice, but that would mean to track search trails of our users, which is too much of a privacy issue. But we are thinking about seman…

Thanks. Yes we will implement a Firefox search engine addon soon.

I don't think that those "generic" term are the main advantage of Blippex. But if you search for example for "NSA" on Blippex ( https://www.blippex.org/?q=NSA ), we are assuming th…

Thanks, that is a very interesting input. We should think about running additional semantic analysis and relate them to the time spent on sites. We are very sure that our algorithm…

Could you please send me a link to the header modifying addon. So I can fix that. gb@blippex.org

We are counting the per unique URL, which is currently not a big advantage for the popular sites, because they are hosting so many URLs. There no domain based factor in it right no…

I think you guesses are absolutely right. We never intended to compete against other engines in the field of "Answers". I think you will always get a better result for ""Population…

Yes that could be a potential issue, expecially if you want to keep the data of the submitters as anonymous as possible. We are monitoring this closely, but honestly we don't have …

doesnt work with usernames only with pages like cocacolazero

I have now clue how they are doing that: http://www.sterntv-experimente.de/FacebookLikeCheck/ But tests with some very small fanpages i own, are producing very accurate and amazing…

how are they doing that?

Dropbox No Nees for USB drives anymore Google Docs easy collaboration within our startup and of course Twitter

The OS does not matter, because almost everything is running in my browser.

We decided to go for YC first and if they don't take us we will apply at other incubators.