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Good reply. Thanks for replying. I personally think it ultimatily boils down to content that the search engine has. That is the index in this case for Google. I think the semantics and the semantic web will make a huge difference. How I look at it is that because Google's result for "c# string replace" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=c%23+string+replace is much better than Mahalo's http://www.mahalo.com/C#_strin…
Yeah, I had some thoughts a while back on one way this could work using social search: http://tchblg.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/why-friendfeed-deserv... Basically, you'd get results back that are from conversations posted by your friends, side-by-side with traditional results from a search engine (using something like Yahoo's BOSS). Then, if you still didn't get the answer you are looking for, you can broadcast the ori…
Re: Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design
#21I will definitely check out your links. Out indexing Google or Microsoft live search is definitely out of the question for me just because of the amount of data among others. Social search with like Yahoo BOSS might work. I will look into fact-based search using social search and conventional search or some kind of combo.