2011年8月30日火曜日

To read later.

http://rikunabi-next.yahoo.co.jp/tech/docs/ct_s03600.jsp?p=001940

2011年8月7日日曜日

Topics to Study.

This article, called "Is Data The Next Oil?" is worth a read.

The key to a successful search engine is the ability to monetize, create innovative ideas a reality, and dominate the market. Making such search engine is difficult, but can be made possible by collaboration, mash-up and teaming up with bright programmers.

I believe getting people who are interested in making a impact on the search engine world is not very hard. Many people will be interested in making a search engine from scratch, and operating it.

The real problem lies in monetizing the search engine.

First, I think it is all right to start off with AdSense and other affiliate advertisement. Ultimately, the goal should be to sell advertisement directly with interested parties. Other than revenues from advertisements, selling licenses of the search engine, and compiling the data coming in from the search engine query and logs and selling them are crucial.

Marketing is an important issue with a newcomer to the market. When there are many alternatives in search engines, to differentiate is essential.

I believe I should focus on machine translation, because honestly, the online machine translation level is still primitive stage.

The query, when the search engine becomes well known and used, will provide the barometer for peoples' interests, and the data can be used for making sites from the data. For example, I am sure many 3rd party will be interested in getting query and click logs with privacy data removed.

This article is probably worth a read too.