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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.'"
Even if google doesnt "win" you can always insite:myspace my searches.
Thats if they dont hide content from other search engines, if they do then its their loss.
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chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
MySpace has got to be an absolute nightmare for any search crawler to dig through. The markup on all the pages is absolutely horrible. Maybe a partnership with Google could help convince them that their pages are built for 1996, not 2006, which is extremely sad for a site that's only been around for two years. Structural markup would make it a lot easier to find the relevant info.
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"If you are worried that Max Cady might be out there in the shadows, teach your daughters not to be stupid about sex."
Right. The staggering number of sexual crimes against women and girls are because the victim is "stupid about sex" This MUST be why 1 in 5 female undergrads are sexually assulted sometime during their 4(+) years at university.
You missed the point. The point was, it's not MySpace's fault that teenage girls post their home addresses and that pedophiles look at them. It's the fault of the girls for posting their information and the pedophiles for taking advantage of it. The parent had a very good point that real life is far more dangerous than MySpace, the only difference is that everyone's been taught not to talk to strangers in real life.
MySpace is the new full-size van with tinted windows and candy inside. The only way it contributes to sexual predators is as a vehicle.