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I guess it'd be this entire website (visual amazon search): http://bigbooksearch.com/ Reason for failure? Google doesn't index search results...
Regarding Google indexing the site, was that toungue-in-cheek? If not, you may want to consider some basic changes to the structure - I think its less that Google doesn't like your site and more that there's very little there to index.
I guess it'd be this entire website (visual amazon search): http://bigbooksearch.com/ Reason for failure? Google doesn't index search results...
That site has a ton of potential. I'm sure with some tweaks here and there it could really take off.
I'd love to hear ideas for making something like this indexable. Generating a bunch of quality content around search results seems difficult (see: Mahalo), but maybe there's another approach I haven't thought of?
They initially loved it, but when they found out it couldn't be integrated into their Wordpress blog, they dismissed the completed project. So I guess the reason for its failure was lack of input.
The project didn't take that long to create and was made to be more of an advertising tool for my company.
http://crossfitter.ca (although you can't see that much unless you belong to a signed up gym)
I guess it'd be this entire website (visual amazon search): http://bigbooksearch.com/ Reason for failure? Google doesn't index search results...
There just isn't much to it. I'll add a bookmarklet when I get around to it.
I built a tool called Statzen that I shutdown because it didn't get traction. It had a feature that would show you what topics/tags from your blog were getting read (via web and/or rss) and what sub-topics within that topic were getting read most. I think I should have just released that one feature as an MVP.
I did have a website that pulled multiple RSS feeds (thousands) and then parsed each entry matching it to others that it had seen before. It could then show you what was popular at any moment on the web, with the ability to see what the article was linked to, and what they were linked to. It showed some interesting things like how a website was effected by something happening on the world stage.
The idea was you could find what was hot on the web at any one time. Nobody really showed any interest in it though.
Reason... I didnt want to pony up the money to put a live version on the web due to not knowing how the producers of the RSS feeds would fee. So there was never anything more then a demo concept.
Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere.
Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.
Bread Crumb for Emacs, http://breadcrumbemacs.sourceforge.net . I use it constantly everyday as I built it for myself. Judging from the download stat, not many people using it.
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That site has a ton of potential. I'm sure with some tweaks here and there it could really take off.
It made the front page of Reddit a while back. My plan was to get traffic organically, but the site is basically one big violation of Google's policies (no original content, it's all search results, etc). The site doesn't even rank for it's own name, although it did for a few days after launch, until Google took notice, and blacklisted it. I'd love to hear ideas for making something like this indexable. Generating a…