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17 views | GoGoHub: New Search Engine To Rival Google, Craig’s List Lexington, NC, December 4, 2008-The soon-to-be launched GoGoHub website has a very lofty but achievable goal: to rival Google and Craig’s List. GoGoHub aims to rival Google and Craig’s List in terms of providing ng more benefits to its users. The online classified ad market all over the world generates nearly $100 billion every year. Google earns $19 billion in terms of ad revenues yearly. Amazon, on the other hand, generated $10.7 billion in classified ads in 2006. “While these companies are earning this much thanks to your continued patronage you can never expect them to share a larger part of their income with you,” GoGoHub Professional Marketer Vid Artukovic said. However, GoGoHub aims to rival these companies in terms of providing greater benefits and larger incomes to their members. GoGoHub positions itself as a direct competitor to Craig’s List because it offers the GoGoHub Free Classified Ads. Unlike Craig’s List though, GoGoHub will use banner ads and featured ads which adds value to the site. GoGoHub is a lso a search engine just like Google which will allow users to type in a certain keyword and do a quick Geo-Targeted search of the item they are looking for. The search is limited to the categories and subcategories indicated in the GoGoHub website. What makes GoGoHub unique and possibly bigger than Google and Craig’s List in terms of benefits given to their members, is the ability to share in the company’s growth from the beginning stages, by investing in the GoGoHub Investment Opportunity. If you are among the millions of workers who want to get away from the Bundy Clock, then take advantage of the GoGoHub Home Business 2008-12-05 05:37:14 |
Expectations of Free and Beta/Alpha Services
April 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pmSource:CenterNetworks
This morning phone replacement GrandCentral (owned by Google) was down. Several blogs reported on the issue. It appears the service is back up now but no word yet on what caused the outage.
GrandCentral is listed as a "beta" and it’s also a "free" service. What should we expect for a service in beta or a service that is considered live but is free? I printed business cards with my GrandCentral number on them. Was this a mistake to trust a service in beta? When Skype was down, they too handled the outage poorly - they blamed Microsoft.
Twitter for example is free and not in beta. It’s been down a good bit (though more stable now) and we’ve all bitched and moaned about their downtime. With a service that apparently has no revenue model yet, is downtime allowed? If so, how much?
What I’d like to see is an expectations document (i.e. a contract) that explains what can be expected from a startup. I am guessing these documents would need a legal stamp but they would be very effective for setting guidelines and customer expectations.
Lastly, for any service that we rely on (e.g. GrandCentral, AIM, Skype) these services should have a status page that we can monitor at any time. Non-essential services (e.g. Google search, Mahalo, CenterNetworks) a status page isn’t required but an explanation of any outages would be beneficial.
Check out our interview with GrandCentral Founder Craig Walker along with his top tips for startups.
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