Comments on: Oodle’s Real-time Stream of Classifieds Listings http://blog.oodle.com/2009/06/17/real-time-classifieds/ 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: Oodle Blog http://blog.oodle.com/2009/06/17/real-time-classifieds/comment-page-1/#comment-3163 Oodle Blog Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:59:03 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/?p=428#comment-3163 Marc, I just reposted it with tweets in parentheses. I was trying to use twitter as a better metaphor for what we're doing in classifieds (as compared to a "classifieds search engine"). And apparently doing a poor job at it... Classifieds are a stream of perisheable messages that share a lot of similar characteristics to tweets. To this end, we've had to invest a lot in real-time search technology to appropriately index this content. Moreover, when we launched Oodle is was hard to get people to understand that search really wasn't the best metaphor for what we were trying to do. When looking for a car, you may conduct a search on Oodle and not find what you are looking for. That may be bad news on Amazon or Shopping.com, but not on Oodle. Minutes later someone may post just the right car. That's why we built out "alerts" functionality. Anyway, sorry that you found this confusing. For what it's worth, you'll see more information on what we're doing with Twitter soon. Marc,

I just reposted it with tweets in parentheses. I was trying to use twitter as a better metaphor for what we’re doing in classifieds (as compared to a “classifieds search engine”). And apparently doing a poor job at it…

Classifieds are a stream of perisheable messages that share a lot of similar characteristics to tweets. To this end, we’ve had to invest a lot in real-time search technology to appropriately index this content.

Moreover, when we launched Oodle is was hard to get people to understand that search really wasn’t the best metaphor for what we were trying to do. When looking for a car, you may conduct a search on Oodle and not find what you are looking for. That may be bad news on Amazon or Shopping.com, but not on Oodle. Minutes later someone may post just the right car. That’s why we built out “alerts” functionality.

Anyway, sorry that you found this confusing. For what it’s worth, you’ll see more information on what we’re doing with Twitter soon.

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]]> By: marc tobias http://blog.oodle.com/2009/06/17/real-time-classifieds/comment-page-1/#comment-3160 marc tobias Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:22:20 +0000 http://blog.oodle.com/?p=428#comment-3160 In my opinion the whole post is hard to read and the wording almost misleading. At first it sounded like Oodle was indexing tweets or had any kind of other Twitter integration. Let's replace all the Twitter-sounding expressions: "We index data as soon as we crawl it or users post it, 24/7" "Users can use our search, and filter search results on our website" "Users can post an ad using a form on our website, it's fast and easy" "Users can subscribe to a result page via RSS" "Users can share results with friends using email-a-friend, Facebook-share or various bookmarking websites. Discussion with friends then happens on those platforms." Now it sounds like the Oodle platform is a classifieds search engine like many others. If Oodle has a lot of common with Twitter then the other search engine do that, too. marc tobias In my opinion the whole post is hard to read and the wording almost misleading. At first it sounded like Oodle was indexing tweets or had any kind of other Twitter integration.

Let’s replace all the Twitter-sounding expressions:

“We index data as soon as we crawl it or users post it, 24/7″
“Users can use our search, and filter search results on our website”
“Users can post an ad using a form on our website, it’s fast and easy”
“Users can subscribe to a result page via RSS”
“Users can share results with friends using email-a-friend, Facebook-share or various bookmarking websites. Discussion with friends then happens on those platforms.”

Now it sounds like the Oodle platform is a classifieds search engine like many others. If Oodle has a lot of common with Twitter then the other search engine do that, too.

marc tobias

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