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MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine
MC Hammer was among tech entrepreneurs announcing new products at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The rapper's product is a new search engine called WireDoo. Sadly, it is not an index of things you can't touch, but instead a search engine focusing on relational items. Searching for the word "car" will bring up topics related to a car, like insurance, pricing and safety ratings. WireDoo is still being built and not available to the public yet.
..google time
So what you're saying is, we can't touch this search engine yet?
... touch this!
Cant search this na na na tan tan tan cant search this
Can I search from a Chinese typewriter?
Is this legit?
Google are loading the search results with service, news, merchandising, amazon, etc, where I'd like to find information. Becoming increasingly annoying as I'm not finding what I want but a lot of junk I don't want to wade through.
I think Hammer's a little slow on the uptake if he hasn't seen this trend.
Another opportunity for Microsoft to sit on their hands, like they did with Yahoo? Do nothing and watch Google throttle themselves and drive users away with crappy search results.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
... you end up with with this on MC Hammer search?
http://saveie6.com/
Web 2.0 legit 2.0 quit?
so please Hammer, don't hurt them.
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Cheers to MC Hammer for taking initiative to become involved in creating what is at least an attempt at bringing more usefulness to the web. It is very easy to read about this project, roll your eyes and declare it a dud. It may well be the case that the technology will be useless and die a quick death. But let's hold on until it's public. It may very well be useful enough to be bought out by google (then killed 6 months later of course). Personally I view this technology as something that might prove more overall useful on a phone after some evolving.
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So the naughty stuff under parental blocks will be under "U can't touch this", the adult stuff will be "Yo sweetness!", and a special category for politics "Help the children".
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duckduckgo.com does these things for you and protects your privacy. Besides, if you searched for "car" on any search engine, you'd get ads for things like insurance, so the engine will give you related items and the engine makes a profit off of it.
That being said, I guess we are knocking it prematurely. We gotta see it before we know it's crap.
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Google already has a feature that does this. Search for anything, click on "More Search Tools" (If not already displayed) and then click on "Related Searches" (two below "All Results").
If he manages to get bought by either one, I would count that as a success.
M.C. Hammer actually has money?
That he didn't spend on crack?
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I can see this being useful as add-on to a more comprehensive search engine in the long run. Or perhaps integrated more tightly into a mobile offering somehow.
Since the article states that this search engine isn't meant as a âoecompetitive attempt to recreate searchâ, he likely is positioning this to be bought by a big company.
Notice what he said at the end of the presentation.
FTA:
Burrell closed his presentation saying, "No one one's playing for single's in the valley anymore, everyone is playing for the... big win."
Break it down now
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No, that's Bob Weir's search engine.
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Please, please, please, please, PLEASE please please tell me he'll be setting up a time synchronization server.
I suppose it won't be compatibile with touch devices
I, for one, am happy for Mr. Hammer's entrepreneurial pursuit.
I wish other rappers could follow suit.
Eminiem, for example, could build a search engine based on white-listed entries.
Tupac could group similar sites into gangs- perhaps have a specialised search engine that shoots results out for law enforcement officials.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
You've never parked in a large parking lot and then a few hours later had to search for your car?
I remember one time finding my car, getting into it, starting it, then realizing that it wasn't my car. Turns out mine was parked a few lanes over. If that wasn't a weird enough coincidence, two years later, I bought another vehicle, and one day used the wrong key - and sure enough, it turned out the same key started both vehicles.
I had to lmao when I saw this. Definitely a lot of plus 1 funny comments in here.
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This may help to sell my MC Hammer LP on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160668765594 I will get rich !!!!.. uhm... not.
Tupac is either dead or living under another identity.
I think that accurately sums up the possibilities.
unless he's a zombie.
Or in a box.
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"Searching for the word "car" will bring up topics related to a car, like insurance, pricing and safety ratings. WireDoo is still being built and not available to the public yet."
So Google goes out of its way to try to filter out all the crap you don't want to see (not counting Google's ads, but they try to axe sites trying to rig things to redirect your search), and WireDoo goes out of its way to add even more crap that you don't want to see? That sounds extremely unappealing. What do you type if you JUST want to see cars? Do you have to rig it by only typing things related to cars, like tires, windshields, steering wheels, etc.? How many obscure car references do you have to combine to avoid getting all the crap you don't want bloating your search and slowing you down?
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Every search will return 1 hit, and no hits ever after.
More power to him to use his money for a positive investment. While I'm a great fan of outright philanthropy, I think that investment in startups and/or local businesses is a great thing for those in the entertainment industry to get into. Especially with how most rappers invest most their money into their "crib", jewelery, guns, and perhaps the "gold plated item" industries, or at best creating their own line of "urban" attire, music labels that often propagate stereotypes and either embody or are involved in societal-damaging behaviors (If you're a hip hop mogul who sells expensive brand name clothes and then backs a music label who's "real" artists rap about gangsta life persuits giving the huge amounts of money necessary to outfit yourself in those particular clothes, it creates a culture where young kids think that gangbanging is the only "down" way to be able to afford that expensive track suit you're hawking). - this is a good move.
Its nice to see a hip-hop star investing in something that isn't directly tied to 'hood concepts of street cred. Perhaps eventually it will be cool for rappers who make it to invest in a locally made, affordable set of shoes for instance, instead of talking about thousand-dollar "kicks" and champagne as good ways to spend your money.
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The title says "MC Hammer launches a search engine," but it hasn't been launched. So, where is the journalistic integrity and fact-checking accuracy Slashdot is world renowned for?
I believe this is part of what Google calls 'semantic search'.
After all, the last three letters spell the word "Doo".
Wait, what? Google samples their own results? Somebody call the media!
Balmer:'Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers
google:'My index is bigger than your index'
Hammer:"Can't search this!
Na NaNaNa.
NaNa.
NaNa."
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Any chance that any of the vehicles involved were Saturns? That seems to be a repeating theme with them; almost like they only had a half-dozen different keys, so odds were pretty good that your saturn key would work with another one; year and model weren't really relevant.
taramtamtam.... can't touch this! tamtararamtamtam, wiredoo, can't touch this. I hope that users of his search engine won't have to suffer watching his famous 3 minute video... before they will get their search results.
1) Read all the jokes, bad puns and all.
2) And to ask when will the "Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich" smartphone/tablet be release?
You just cant stop yourself from shitting your money right down the drain can you, your "web 2.0" (seriously?) idea has been around since you were still making records. Fuck dude buy a computer first.
That's nice and all, but it doesn't discredit what the OP was implying - MC Hammer only had one actual hit; it's the only song he's known for, hence the joke.
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My 18 year old niece had no idea who MC hammer was before I told her recently.
I'm sure there was a Google Labs experiment that focused on finding relational items. But oh wait. Labs support has been dropped.
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