Last year when Google launched Co-Op, I said - half-jokingly - that it was copying MetaMojo.com’s domain specific vertical search approach. Here’s that post:
:: Google Borrows Page from MetaMojo.com (Really!).
Yesterday, Google made a few changes in its video search and launched a meta search in video. Again, basically copying MetaMojo.com’s second product, our video meta search. Here’s our result for Ronaldinho, for example.
For the record, neither one of our products were earth shattering in originality, so it was a matter of time for Google to emulate them, but come on, Google, with a gazillion PhDs, let’s go for some additional firepower… no?
I’m kidding, I think.
Previous blog entries on the product:
- Head to head: MetaMojo vs. the Other Search Engines
- Google’s SOAP Search API Shutdown: A Lesson for Entrepreneurs
- Yahoo!’s Credibility Problem with Geeks (or, why we stopped using Y!’s API, and they did not care)
- Official Launch of Domain Specific, Vertical Search Engine MetaMojo.com
- Google Borrows Page from MetaMojo.com (Really!)
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May 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[…] In addition to existing search engines, the Universal Search concept has been tried before elsewhere. Don Dodge has a thoughtful post on this topic, explaining why the concept of Universal Search failed before. Ashkan Karbasfrooshan of MojoSupreme (which created the MetaMojo search engine) also has an interesting post: Oh Google … stop copying us!. […]