| Yeah, we don't have content ourselves, our value add is the ranking and filter service. Also, allowing you to see the conversation across the web. UGC would be tough, because I'm at a chicken and egg state right now as you pointed out. And crap comments would lead to more crap comments. Imagine if Quora or Hacker News had a comment bot. Sets a bad tone for the future. i guess there may be a flaw in my initial strategy. when training my algorithm (and as i make iterations), I compare the results to google news to make sure we're as good if not better. That's why a lot of the initial top-level categories match up pretty closely. Sports vs sports
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http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&ned=... However, once I'm more confident in the algo, I'll let it loose on something more niche, like college football http://collegefb.rawsignal.com/ that's how we can differentiate from google, but i never realized that having too many options would paralyze people. maybe if i release each vertical under its own domain . . . |