http://disqus.com/people/ba720f05c995f97fd792372adde55415/enTue, 02 Dec 2008 17:18:02 -0000http://oxyfish.disqus.com/rolling_with_the_punches/#comment-3153480Yikes, Tom! Hang in there...Al SargentSun, 19 Oct 2008 01:34:29 -0000http://johnlillyblog.disqus.com/a_picture8217s_worth_100m_users/#comment-1418577Nice article. I agree with a lot of it. I have a related, if more business-oriented, post on WinSafari on my site.Al SargentThu, 14 Jun 2007 16:54:26 -0000http://chrisbrogan.disqus.com/open_source_idea_two_way_search/#comment-8505055Wow -- sounds like a very powerful conversation-starter. Like Michael above, I'd want to be able to opt-in and -out a on per-query basis.<br><br>There's a significant business model opportunity here. A search engine company could offer to sell "pings" to interested parties. An author might want to buy pings. So might a book publisher. Or a book retailer.<br><br>Like Adsense, you could have all kinds of options: Quotas: an author could buy a max of $1 of pings a day. Geolocation: a brick-and-mortar book retailer could buy pings coming from people within a ten mile radius. Pay-for-Placement: a consumer (who places the search to begin with) could specify "Allow up to N parties to contact me". If there are 10 parties interested in that search and the consumer only allows 3 parties to contact them, then only the top bidders get to make the ping.<br><br>This feels like a billion-dollar business for a company with the right resources to make it happen. Perhaps one whose name starts with G...Al SargentTue, 02 Dec 2008 17:18:02 -0000