I wish the pricing/business model supported niche wiki creation. I want to put together a broad public knowledge base about a niche product segment, that connects common data elements for companies and products with deep technical models of the products themselves. Golden's tooling looks super useful, but too expensive for this use case.
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#12Pretty slick but I think calling it "The most comprehensive knowledge platform" is a slight exaggeration. I searched for a few random topics ("urban planning", "pianos" and "bitcoin") and bitcoin was the only one to have a (lengthy) article.
I also don't understand the incentive for users to contribute to a knowledge base that is then being sold: https://golden.com/pricing
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#13Tried searching for Bach, first result besides a bunch of companies (?) is a Canadian product designer. Johann Sebastian Bach isn’t even in the first page of search results somehow.
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#14Really great to see some actual non incremental innovation happening in the search space. When looking at Golden's value prop, it becomes clear that Google has actually been somewhat, ehm, lazy when it comes to making search better, relying almost 100% on UGC to provide answers instead of trying to structure them in a concise way. Very curious to see where this leads!
it’s more like a proprietary wikipedia than a google. at least that’s my impression playing around with it.
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#15Pretty slick but I think calling it "The most comprehensive knowledge platform" is a slight exaggeration. I searched for a few random topics ("urban planning", "pianos" and "bitcoin") and bitcoin was the only one to have a (lengthy) article. I also don't understand the incentive for users to contribute to a knowledge base that is then being sold: https://golden.com/pricing
Unfortunately this was created because Wikipedia refused to keep articles on obscure altcoins so it’s very crypto heavy. That’s why a16z has jumped in I’d imagine—they very much drank the crypto koolaid and like the synergy.
This was also why I could never really see this becoming a serious product. It’s an SEO trick for ICOs looking to hype themselves, a far cry from a knowledge base. Mismatched incentives will screw up the value prop.
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#16Pretty slick but I think calling it "The most comprehensive knowledge platform" is a slight exaggeration. I searched for a few random topics ("urban planning", "pianos" and "bitcoin") and bitcoin was the only one to have a (lengthy) article. I also don't understand the incentive for users to contribute to a knowledge base that is then being sold: https://golden.com/pricing
Unfortunately this was created because Wikipedia refused to keep articles on obscure altcoins so it’s very crypto heavy. That’s why a16z has jumped in I’d imagine—they very much drank the crypto koolaid and like the synergy. This was also why I could never really see this becoming a serious product. It’s an SEO trick for ICOs looking to hype themselves, a far cry from a knowledge base. Mismatched incentives will scre…
Interesting - didn't realize Wikipedia didn't allow such articles.
But in general, Golden seems to have a very strong tech bias - which is fine, but limits what it can be used for.
Re: Golden raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z and Marc Andreessen joins board
#17Congrats Jude! Super star CEO.
Re: Golden raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z and Marc Andreessen joins board
#18Really great to see some actual non incremental innovation happening in the search space. When looking at Golden's value prop, it becomes clear that Google has actually been somewhat, ehm, lazy when it comes to making search better, relying almost 100% on UGC to provide answers instead of trying to structure them in a concise way. Very curious to see where this leads!
it’s more like a proprietary wikipedia than a google. at least that’s my impression playing around with it.
I gather that the knowledge in Golden is more structured, making it more like a database than a wiki, i.e. more like Wikidata or Semantic MediaWiki than Wikipedia.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
it’s more like a proprietary wikipedia than a google. at least that’s my impression playing around with it.
I gather that the knowledge in Golden is more structured, making it more like a database than a wiki, i.e. more like Wikidata or Semantic MediaWiki than Wikipedia.
it looks like a mix of Wikipedia, Google and a Bloomberg terminal
Re: Golden raises $14.5M Series A led by a16z and Marc Andreessen joins board
#20Really great to see some actual non incremental innovation happening in the search space. When looking at Golden's value prop, it becomes clear that Google has actually been somewhat, ehm, lazy when it comes to making search better, relying almost 100% on UGC to provide answers instead of trying to structure them in a concise way. Very curious to see where this leads!
> Very curious to see where this leads!
Well they took VC. So it won't lead anywhere interesting other than value enclosure and exit to surveillance capitalism.