More visual way of searching, huh? Reminds me of that failure that was Cuil...
Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
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Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#12The TechCrunch formula: take any interesting rumor ("Apple is building a search engine"). Throw technical platitudes around it ("you need people who know what they're doing"). Do not commit - neither assert ("why invest all that capital into search? The answer is they’re not.") nor deny too strongly ("There are pieces of this we are still putting together"). Be sure to stick ads on the page. Finally? Profit of course…
Yep! No question mark there. I'm still surprised HN hasn't banned TechCrunch stories. When they do have a good story, usually somebody else has the story as well. And TechCrunch attracts a lot of spam.
are you really advocating a ban?
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep! No question mark there. I'm still surprised HN hasn't banned TechCrunch stories. When they do have a good story, usually somebody else has the story as well. And TechCrunch attracts a lot of spam.
are you really advocating a ban?
Hacker News has banned other URLs before, from what I know, largely based around the theme of "stories here are irrelevant/infactual/not hacker news." Valleywag was. TinyURL is. I think TechCrunch is similarly useless as a news source.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#14No.
As amusing as comments like these are (I've seen another story today that had a "no" response), I'm worried that comments on Hacker News are starting to become diluted. A similar thing happened early on with Reddit, before it started its decline.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#15No.
As amusing as comments like these are (I've seen another story today that had a "no" response), I'm worried that comments on Hacker News are starting to become diluted. A similar thing happened early on with Reddit, before it started its decline.
Ok. We get it. We've read that kind of message hundreds of times. We know the reddit/digg/slashdot decline cautionary tale. It's enough. Just stop. No more. No more!
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#16More visual way of searching, huh? Reminds me of that failure that was Cuil...
I used a lot of visualized search engine technologies being pitched by different research groups or startups in my last job. They were all pretty (well, okay, they were 50 footers) but they all had the same problem: horribly inefficient as search engines. Which is, you know, what they were supposed to be.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
As amusing as comments like these are (I've seen another story today that had a "no" response), I'm worried that comments on Hacker News are starting to become diluted. A similar thing happened early on with Reddit, before it started its decline.
Ok. We get it. We've read that kind of message hundreds of times. We know the reddit/digg/slashdot decline cautionary tale. It's enough. Just stop. No more. No more!
Of course we know it. But that doesn't stop it from happening.
Sorry, I'm a bit of a worrywart. In the last week or so things seem to have noticeably declined. :-/
EDIT: Am I really harping on it that much? I didn't think I was. I'll try and tone it down a bit.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#18The TechCrunch formula: take any interesting rumor ("Apple is building a search engine"). Throw technical platitudes around it ("you need people who know what they're doing"). Do not commit - neither assert ("why invest all that capital into search? The answer is they’re not.") nor deny too strongly ("There are pieces of this we are still putting together"). Be sure to stick ads on the page. Finally? Profit of course…
Yep! No question mark there. I'm still surprised HN hasn't banned TechCrunch stories. When they do have a good story, usually somebody else has the story as well. And TechCrunch attracts a lot of spam.
I've imposed my own ban on TechCrunch, with the BlockSite extension for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145). I actually installed it specifically to prevent getting lured to TechCrunch articles from sites like HN where I'm just looking at headlines. It's the only site I have listed, and the links show up as visited and unclickable, saving me wasting precious minutes everyday.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#19The TechCrunch formula: take any interesting rumor ("Apple is building a search engine"). Throw technical platitudes around it ("you need people who know what they're doing"). Do not commit - neither assert ("why invest all that capital into search? The answer is they’re not.") nor deny too strongly ("There are pieces of this we are still putting together"). Be sure to stick ads on the page. Finally? Profit of course…
Yep! No question mark there. I'm still surprised HN hasn't banned TechCrunch stories. When they do have a good story, usually somebody else has the story as well. And TechCrunch attracts a lot of spam.
Re: Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
are you really advocating a ban?
Hacker News has banned other URLs before, from what I know, largely based around the theme of "stories here are irrelevant/infactual/not hacker news." Valleywag was. TinyURL is. I think TechCrunch is similarly useless as a news source.
i dont really understand the point of a blanket ban on articles from a website.
assuming the system isn't getting "played",aren't the articles that members deem interesting supposed rise to the top? So why a ban ?
(if this discussion has already been had elsewhere,please point me to it)