Comments on: Listings Want to Be Free http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/ News & Views from Oodle - A Whole New Way To Shop Classifieds Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:16:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Carter http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Mike Carter Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:17:21 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/#comment-2670 Craig, I couldn't agree more. These models are the future and are already starting to have an impact. And as far as your ideas on the upgrade model, brilliant stuff. To answer a couple questions (or just give my 2 cents)... Barrier to entry- almost similar to competing with Google. The technology to 'scrape' content is very difficult especially when running a vertical search with websites that are 'dirty' in nature. Huge barrier to do it in a scalable fashion. Also, vertical search is the natural progression of horizontal search (google). Users will always need an 'aggregator' of content and this is where vert search fits. Craig, I couldn’t agree more. These models are the future and are already starting to have an impact. And as far as your ideas on the upgrade model, brilliant stuff.

To answer a couple questions (or just give my 2 cents)…
Barrier to entry- almost similar to competing with Google. The technology to ’scrape’ content is very difficult especially when running a vertical search with websites that are ‘dirty’ in nature. Huge barrier to do it in a scalable fashion. Also, vertical search is the natural progression of horizontal search (google). Users will always need an ‘aggregator’ of content and this is where vert search fits.

]]> By: Karl http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Karl Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:26:36 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/#comment-10 John, agree with you. Theirs' a very thin business model. My question is how long would it take before other start-up companys (whether or not having secured some VC funding) would do the same thing. What is the differentiations or barrier-of-entry of this business model? John, agree with you. Theirs’ a very thin business model. My question is how long would it take before other start-up companys (whether or not having secured some VC funding) would do the same thing.

What is the differentiations or barrier-of-entry of this business model?

]]> By: Craig http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Craig Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:23:48 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/#comment-9 Quickly reply to that last comment... We don't display listings. We simply create summaries that point the listings. This is beneficial to the sites in our index in that users need to click through to respond to the listing. Classified sites get free traffic from Oodle. Quickly reply to that last comment…

We don’t display listings. We simply create summaries that point the listings. This is beneficial to the sites in our index in that users need to click through to respond to the listing. Classified sites get free traffic from Oodle.

]]> By: John http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/comment-page-1/#comment-8 John Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:16:22 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/2005/05/25/listings-want-to-be-free/#comment-8 I'm confused by your business model. It seems that you are "screen-scraping" craigslist and possibly other classified services then framing the results with Google ads. Just how long do you think other services will let you keep deep linking to their content for your own financial gain? As soon as they cut you off, you're toast. I’m confused by your business model. It seems that you are “screen-scraping” craigslist and possibly other classified services then framing the results with Google ads.

Just how long do you think other services will let you keep deep linking to their content for your own financial gain?

As soon as they cut you off, you’re toast.

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