The new gloofi is arounf the corner

Hello all,

After some hard 4 weeks, the new gloofi is just around the corner. The new search engine goes a different route than Google and co since it is not about showing how many items were found, but how good are the items on the first page and that is why the gloofi result has never more than 5 entries. Every user now can go to gloofi and create/edit results by creating new ones. With those new results, users can vote for and make them more visible and the owner of the result will get money from the advertisement placed on her/his result.

The site follows the rule of simplicity. Just one site mainly, the search result. All can be done right there, creating an account, editing a result, adding advertisements…not many pages or a hard way to understand how this works.

Take control again of search and show the big guys that it is youo, the user who is in control.

Best

It has been a while!

Hello everybody,

It has been a while since my last entry here but because much is going on in the search arena I thought it is time to make a do over for gloofi. The overall performance of gloofi has been bad, despite all the cool functions it offers and so I decided to make radical changes. Just today I saw on Techcrunch that Wikia Search is shutting down and so I figured it is a good time to start over.

Many big names had a horrible performance in the search field, like wikia search, cuil and others. Also the big players like Yahoo and Live search are still falling behind on Google and thus sets the question, “Is there a way to compete against Google?”. Given, they have a great, easy to use product and all the money in teh world, but I am sure that it does not take that much to become noticed. I do not want to say “become a Google killer” since that seems to be impossible but I am convinced that search can be better as I have problems every day finding the stuff I am looking for.

My new idea is “make it simple” and pay back users that are involved to create a better search. All the fancy functions will be deleted from gloofi as it has proven time over time again, that the simpler is the better (Google, Twitter…). It will be hard for me since I added so many useful features but what good do they do if nobody is using them.

Come back soon for the BETA version of gloofi.