Comments on: Eurekster & The Best Sales Idea I have seen in a long time http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/ the mark cuban weblog Thu, 31 May 2012 20:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Greg http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15373 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:41 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15373 I actually created a sort of resume ad on google. I figrued most people google potential employees before they hire. So I created a blog with my stats and misc info on it to show my interest and career achievements. Then created a google ad and bought my name as a keyword. It did not get me a new job but it is the same concept of selling via an ad. I was selling my skills and wanted to seperate myself from the rest.

I can’t claim the idea as my own because I stole it from a guy who bought an ad to wish his brother happy birthday.

]]> By: JohnD http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15374 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:41 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15374 What Mr. Cuban said in an interview in a March 20 feature story in Time magazine:

“Yahoo! was struggling to grow as a search engine, and then Overture came around with pay-per-click, and that saved the entire search industry. And that created enough revenue for Google to become Google. Every step of the way there’s something that comes along that changes the game. And that’s when the fun happens.”

(source: http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1172234,00.html)

]]> By: Share Trading http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15358 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15358 The thing is, when I go to websites i don’t like using their search – especially if it is linked to google search or any other affiliate – because I am aware of the advertisements, and a lot of the time the results given to me is not what I am after.

I prefer to go to the search engines direct.

]]> By: Forex Trading http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15359 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15359 I could work with popular sites – but with websites like imdb.com and other category portals – I’m tired of getting results with a lot of advertising that isn’t relevant to what I want.

But I guess it would work for advertisers as it is targeting niche markets.

Interesting concept. We’ll see how it’ll fare.

]]> By: Preston Wily http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15360 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15360 Mark – rustybrick (of seo fame) proposed to his girlfriend through ask.com so I guess you could say that the first search engine proposal already happened.

Here is the story: http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=8081

]]> By: Daniel Wayne Johnston http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15361 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15361 Their (Rusty Brick and Yisha Tversky) official wedding/proposal site.

http://www.yishaandbarry.com/search.php

]]> By: Brian Yennie http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15362 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15362 Consider the other side – buying your own name as a keyword. Now you can make sure every search for your name has your own personal spin at the top!

Or maybe just a note… “Hey this is Brian. Why are you Googling me?”

]]> By: Ted http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15363 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15363 Not bad idea. Do you incarnate them in real life? Or it just ideas for anyone to incarnate?

]]> By: Peter http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15364 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15364 Mark,

Thanks for the heads up on this one. I’ll be installing the Eurekster search boxes tonight on all of my sites. Google search quality has been going down hill for years. There’s just too much emphasis on how many incoming links a site has.

IOW, old dinosaur sites launched during and last updated back in the Korean War days show up first by virtue of the fact that they have been around long enough to accumulate more incoming than the competition.

Try http://www.clusty.com for searches as well.

Peter
http://www.antiventurecapital.

]]> By: Mitchell http://blogmaverick.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15365 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:05:40 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/eurekster-amp-the-best-sales-idea-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time/#comment-15365 Wow!
This is very interesting! Just the other day I had a conversation with a corporate IT director about the possibilities of making a search engine for corporate intranets to get information about specific departmental/communities subject matter searched by employees to the corporate intranet community that could be faster, efficient, and more focused to that employee or department’s related issues. No one is really focusing on the corporate intranets desperate need for such search engines? Maybe, besides the public, Eurekster may have a great idea for corporate communities as well as industry based communities?

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