SEL: Organized Shopping Says Battelle has No Posse

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October 18, 2006

Organized Shopping Says Battelle has No Posse

Battelle recently posted on GMBMG (give me back my Google) which in his words "automatically strips out a ton of affiliate spam from Google. The results are quite revealing."

Organized Shopping says he's "Silly, silly, silly" in that he didn't dig much into what GMBMG's really doing, which is simply removing top-tier shopping search results.

"It is a crude game of whack-a-mole. Get rid of the top-tier shopping engines and you are left with... a zillion second-tier shopping engines... not to mention the real affiliate spam that has no functionality."

Again I tell you that it's task-oriented vertical sites like Become that will creep up on Google's share because they don't have to solve the enormously challenging task of... determining intent!

So, thanks to Organized Shopping for digging into GMBMG's back end a little and giving me a platform to shake my Google killer = lots-of-verticals stick.

I for one am still a card carrying member, but Battelle's posse has clearly gone down by one ;)

Garrett French - MarketSmart Interactive | permalink | +marktd |

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