Someone putting their personal information on a social networking site and the being upset that it got loose?

Wake up and smell the coffee dude or dudette. You said it yourself… “Instead of “stealing” public information from myspace and facebook”

PUBLIC information. Get it? That’s public, as in you might as well paint it on the side of a cab in NYC.

When will folks understand that posting things to Facebook etal is like shouting your private business on the street corners of the world? If you wanted to have control of your data, DON’T put it on the net, at the very least DON’T put it on a social networking site.

Wake up and SMELL the Coffee… (unfortunately in these hard times it’s not Starbucks coffee anylonger…)

Thanks for sharing. Search engine optimization is indeed one of the most crucial areas in Internet marketing, it is a perfect bridge between technology and business….

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we offer Art Basel (Europe) tickets for friends who bring in leads for our enterprise version:-)

Is this ‘dinner date’ offer valid for other worthwhile solutions than a search engine as well?

I think what they were trying to do was create the whole social search all at once rather than implementing many smaller steps that would entice actual users to register. They wasted too much time and energy mapping out, copying and posting “everyone’s” profiles without asking permission, making the whole search function irrelevant because there weren’t many real registered users.

Instead of “stealing” public information from myspace and facebook, they should have built their own network by heavily marketing a service to privately “manage” your online presence…profiles, articles, etc. Make it opt-in only and most importantly “confidential”, if you want a public profile of profiles, then that is your choice it should not be required. If you only want to find and organize your online profiles privately that is a valuable search service for many people (especially parents lol). If you want to post a public profile of profiles (social networks, blogs, articles, etc), it would be a valuable service for authors, musicians, business resumes, etc to have everything listed on one page with one url to link to and one central location to find people.

If there is such a service I have never heard of it, which is the problem!! Rapleaf has so much potential but I think they collect and sell information (?) and do not offer public profiles, and LinkedIn is more of a networking tool, it doesn’t “find” or “manage” accounts and there are connections/relationships involved. So pretty much, Delver could have been successful if only they had spent more time and energy on mass appeal and mass marketing.

Curious how they will be doing. They seem though to have a big advantage both for the visitor and the advertiser.
They have developed a search engine that provides the results of the search on the left side of a window and the actual web site is framed on the right. The correct web site is displayed immediately as the mouse hovers over each individual search result.

Some press releases are even comparing them with Google.

It’s not publicity, it’s news.

Factor in the cost of benefits, outsourcing the accounting and HR, etc and you’ve got a pretty decent overhead without even taking into account any of the hardware, rental space, etc that comes into play.

4M is a lot of money, but it’s not that hard to burn through when you’re paying people competitive salaries and benefits.

The founders AND investors of search startups like Delver, Cuil, SearchMe and others should do a much better due-diligence before getting into this highly competitive space dominated by Google.

It is not about the product and not about marketing spend (you can ask Ask.com & Live.com). It is about changing peoples’ habits, and in the case of search it is pretty much impossible to change their mindset. Just wake up 100 people in the middle of the night and ask them to name a search engine, 99 will say one thing – Google. Sad, but true.