Poll: Would you try this brainstorming search engine if it were built?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628875

by amichail • 17 years ago

9 7 17 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

I've used Google's suggestion feature in a similar fashion many times. When you start typing a query, a menu appears with similar, popular requests. When I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for, I put in a general word, and I see what other queries are popular.

This helps me find the correct term for things when I'm not sure, and I'm sure could be used to see if similar ideas to your idea have been documented before. I tried typing in 'folding car', and the list was full of different folding car parts and accessories. Executing that query would quickly reveal if anyone had toyed with the idea or blogged about the possibility. More importantly, it would show if anyone was already using the idea commercially.

So I think you could specialize in this kind of searching, but it would be hard to catch up to Google. Have a large user base would be essential to the success of such a system.

amichail2• 17 years ago

Typing just "car" into Google doesn't reveal interesting ideas about cars though.

Additionally, what I propose can give you ideas that aren't already popular on the web.

This can be used to generate novel ideas.

xenoterracide• 17 years ago

better idea, see searches that were made by other people who searched the same thing as you, in a recent search timespan. (for example if I search linux firewall, 10 minutes later I search iptables they are probably related).

eintnohick• 17 years ago

no, google

pierrefar2• 17 years ago

There are plenty of such tools for keyword research for SEO purposes.

A collection:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

http://adlab.microsoft.com/Keyword-Group-Detection/default.a...

http://www.google.com/sktool/#

http://www.keywordspy.com/

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/

http://www.wordtracker.com/

Overviews from SEOs: http://www.searchengineguide.com/lisa-barone/five-steps-to-e...