The old may not like what some people say but sure glad there is a forum for us to say it.

We the ASIEBU Company are pleased to make this offer of AU Metal Gold/ Dust under the penalty of perjury and with full corporate and legal responsibility to the following terms and conditions.
1. Product : AU Metal (Gold)
2. Origin : Ghana West Africa
3. Type : Alluvial
4. Purity : 22.5 Carat or 95%
5.Quantity: 400 kilos PROCEDURES:
One representative of the buyer is suppose to come down to (Accra-Ghana) for the inspection and random sampling of our Gold Dust. or make plans for the goods to be ship to he/she destination.
We look forward to establishing a long lasting business relationship with you.
Thanks
Mr Kweku Asiedu.

I even worked at Yahoo for almost two years.

However, AOL didn’t call us again recently.

You claim AOL did not purchase your company because of lack of funding / being part of a mega corp, your location in Cupertino, or the fact you have never claimed “proprietary technology”?

I’m inclined to think there are other reasons as well . . .and if you are in fact bigger than Yedda, I assume your company was contacted by AOL as well or identified as a potential opportunity.

>>>why didn’t AOL buy your company?

A guess? Lack of venture funding…we have none, and as a bootstrapped startup, we have a lot less connections, etc. Also, the Yedda team is based in Israel. We’re in Cupertino + other parts of the world (headquarters = cupertino). Since AOL has operations in Israel, they can integrate the team better.

My other guess as to why AOL didn’t buy us, but purchased yedda…FunAdvice has never publicly claimed “proprietary technology” such as Yedda’s semantic analysis infrastructure, and they talked about weighted bits of stuff on graphs, etc….we’ve never done that

In fact, of the large Q&A sites (I’m using Compete / Quantcast – use comscore & probably get different numbers):
Yahoo Answers (1)
Wiki Answrs (2)
Answerbag (3)
FunAdvice (4)
Askville (5)
MSN QnA (6)
Yedda (7)

Only Yedda of this list claims “semantic technology”…none, not one, of the others have. Yahoo = 14 million uniques or so, Wiki Answers = 11 million or so, Answerbag = 4 million or so, and FunAdvice = more than a million.

Askville / MSN are hard to gauge, but compete & quantcast pub them smaller than us by a mile. Same with Yedda.

Of that list, FunAdvice is the only Q&A site without a mega corp backing it OR venture funding (demand media = parent of answerbag, with 220 million in funding).

So now that we’re the largest, independetn Q&A site out there…what’s our next move? Well, I’m going to hug a tree.

Why didn’t AOL buy your company?

I have no idea what they did with the 2.5 million in funding, but if they get even that much for their site as an acquisition, then ours with more than a million visitors, twice the number of registered users, should be worth far more.

And our site search actually works.

Who buys an application on .net anyway, when none of AOL’s infrastructure is built on Windows?

However in my opinion, it’s another shot in the foot for AOL. Bad acquisition all around.

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