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Bliipa: Social Search and Traditional Search Side-By-Side

Submitted by Emmeffe2 from Google Reader

Aug 15, 2009

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Social media sites have been producing a large part of the content on the internet. The only problem is that most content produced by social media sites do not appear on search engines. It’s either that or search engines like Google and Yahoo are...

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Danatodd,

Aug 17, 2009

Why do companies keep inventing these terrible product names? Bliipa? Seriously? Try fostering WOM adoption on that, and imagine the ensuing conversation:
"Yeah there's this new search engine for social stuff, Bliipa."
"Blipa?" (attempts to type url) "Blippa?"
"Yeah, but with two i's"
"Bliippa?" (attempts to type url again)"still not coming up."
"No, b-l-i-i-p-a."
"Forget it."