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A New Search for MySpace
garzpacho writes "Businessweek is reporting on MySpace's new strategy. They're going to pit the large engines against each other in a bidding war to provide the popular social networking site with a new search engine. From the article: 'Search is a driver of traffic and advertising revenue for other major Web destinations, but it's a largely untapped source of growth for MySpace and other Fox Interactive Media properties such as online gaming site IGN and sports site Scout. Given MySpace's power, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN are expected to compete fiercely for the right to be the search engine of choice for MySpace and the rest of Fox Interactive. News Corp. won't say how much money it expects to derive from a deal, but industry experts say it could conceivably boost MySpace's annual revenue several times over.'"
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I am going to bid for this contract-
I have developed a search engine that plays music when you load the homepage, is inaccesable between 6-10 pm due to a lack of bandwidth, reeks of emo-cutter desperation, and has little icons of music notes moving around the whole page so the links are hard to find/click. I am thinking we will be a good fit....
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
Maybe companies selling razor blades might be able to find a nice niche?
I'm sure it's a hell of a lot easier for a spider to read and index those pages than it is for an actual human to try to read them. For one thing, a computer program can read text that's the same color as the background picture just fine.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
I don't care what MySpace get up to. They send me spam. Accordingly, they should rot in hell.
...laura
1) Dumb
2) Dumber
3) Dumbier
4) Dumbest
5) Stupid Beyond Words
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Given that most mySpace users are minors, I'd feel better if a government agency participated in hearings to choose the right search engine for mySpace.
more importantly, if you brainwash a kid into buying your deodorant now, they may mindlessly buy it for years and years to come, whereas most older people are already brand loyal, and even if you do brainwash an 80-year-old guy, he might not finish his first stick before he keels over.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Ok so iam going to be honest here i my self have a myspace and i see no use for this service to search for stuff on the site is worth less there is so much crap filled on the pages even my own page is full of HTML and its a mess. It is purely for money and has no true value maybe if some one would explain it to me more clearly then i might like it more but, from my point of of view as a myspace user it is worthless and purely driven for profit i mean dosent the site allready make enough money. And Also i must add that some of the users posting replies in sound like they them slefes use myspace and it is not full of EMO ness most of you have no idea what that is and most people who say they are emo are not cutters get your facts straight the is alot of sterotyping going on in this thread. Iam just standing up for my generation which is more then likely the worst one in American history but give us a break please we will lead America one day and fight the wars and also control Microsoft one day.
That explains the endless bitching.