Talk:Vertical search/Archives/2013

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Not sure if that's possible, but this sounds like an advertisement. (of an entire business field) 64.231.203.116 18:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It is an advertisement. 90.135.216.19 (talk) 20:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I added in depth analysis of vertical search engine and broad base search engine, article is as follows, do not delete it.Any deletion for this is absolutely with no reason. I find the exciting content is very much towards towards advertising on LookSmart.

Other important factors why vertical search engines co-exist with general search are its in-depth description/profile of an advertiser. Examples are BaiDu is a general search engine in Chinese language. Alibaba.com is a vertical search engine for china import/export manufactures. User doing Baidu search can probably find advertisers of Alibaba.com, but because Aliaba.com provides more rating and in-depth service profile of the advertiser, it still co-exist with BaiDu and provides buyer with more valuable information. On US market, B to C side you can consider eBay.com as a vertical commerce site, because it has user ratings on merchants which are not available in Google. So does Yelp.com where rating is the differentiator of this site. Amazon.com is again a B to C vertical search site for books and now varieties of commerce with ratings. On B to B side, BuyerZone.com connects small business buyer and seller. RequestFill.com connects IT requester and IT service providers. Again all vertical search engines has overlapping area on advertisers with general search engine, but vertical search engine provides much more in-depth search process with advertiser’s service profile and rating in place and therefore gets more serious buyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.121.121.31 (talk) 03:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * How can you possibly know the reasons people would have for editing Wikipedia? Everything has a reason. This information is not exciting, it is promotional. 90.135.216.19 (talk) 20:03, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

This category description for Vertical Search is a complete mess - last external link in 2006????? A paragraph on Looksmart??? I tried posting two recent articles from ReadWriteWeb and SearchEngineLand giving a listing of vertical search sites and it was edited out..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.133.116.245 (talk) 02:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Starting from Scratch
I rewrote the entry as a stub. At least it's not an ad now. Dtunkelang (talk) 20:59, 27 December 2009 (UTC)