Just Don’t Compare Kosmix to Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15ping.html?ref=technology

by pclark • 17 years ago

28 9 17 years ago

pclark• 17 years ago

feels like Mahalo meets Algorithms

siong1987• 17 years ago

Sometimes, I hate reading news from nytimes. For example, in this article, there is no a single link actually pointing to Kosmix website.

Or, we are expected to find out the website ourselves by reading the article?

motoko• 17 years ago

I've noticed that newspapers (unhelpfully) will directly link to the home page of a university, but rarely link to commercial websites which they feature. I think this is an editorial policy to artificially maintain a veneer of journalistic impartially, but the effect amounts to lipstick on a submarine.

akkartik• 17 years ago

http://kosmix.com

http://meehive.com

I work there, and our team spent a bunch of time on friday trying to get them to add the link. They claim they still haven't figured out implications of this 'internet' thing on their editorial policies, and trained all their copywriters..

brandnewlow• 17 years ago

It's the same with the Chicago Tribune.

Their excuse is that the CMS makes it difficult to add outbound links directly into articles.....

...so they instead fill them with automatic inbound links to their spammy topic pages!

aristus• 17 years ago

The NYTimes has a schizoid relationship with the internet.

The NYTimes was the first paper on the 'net. Brewster Khale (founder of Internet Archive) helped them get there. In 2004 they started threatening the Internet Archive to get them to stop archiving their internet pages.

Then they started threatening Google. Then they put up the registration wall. But then they started paying "reputation" companies to spread their links all over the web. Then they started protesting that they should not have the burden of being the "paper of record", but still maintain "all the news that's fit to print".

The Old Grey Lady has gone batty.

sjs382• 17 years ago

I'm glad they got it right by saying that they aren't trying to do search better than Google. Making your competitor the standard for comparison sets you up for failure.

It's the reason an iPod-killer, Google-killer, Twitter-killer, etc will never be one.

mitultiwari• 17 years ago

An article on Kosmix in NY TImes.

mailman• 17 years ago

where does search end and explore start? Will this be the new face of search?

Just Don’t Compare Kosmix to Google

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