User talk:Dzb123

What is ineedacure.com? It's been over a year now and progress is anything but forward. It all began when the need arose to find a cure for lupus disease. The term cure can take several paths on a search site. Cure: a means of healing or restoring to health; remedy. OR, to prepare (meat, fish, etc.) for preservation by salting, drying, etc. Results stem from the initial request which then places options in a metacrawler hierarchy, leaving the searcher a list of options to analyze, then determine which blue link in the list will come close to the initial request. As we all know, this is a trip through the forest without a trail of bread crumbs to bring us back.

I’m a professional in the industry of Internet sales. What I sell has little or nothing to do with this article. It does however give some insight to the reader about my ability to search the web and find answers. I’ve been an internet Director for many years; in fact I was on the web when it was called Compuserve. Using a modem and a 128k--that’s right 128k--Commodore computer back in the day.

So, one day, while searching for cures for lupus, I began to realize something overlooked, something more important than a quick return of a million links. Imagine yourself in a vast, dense forest of trees and foliage. You are there to find a plant they call arthritisbane and bring back a sample of it. You're given limited information: green leaves (like all the other green leaves), grows on a woody branch (like all the other branches in the forest). It is definitely there in the forest, but no one know where. In this situation you would ask yourself, how long will it take? An hour, a day? Will I recognize arthritisbane? How many other plants resemble it? Will I need a rope or a ladder? If I find it, can I even find my way back? How tall is it?

I could go on and onm but I think you get it. You have asked all the questions and are ready to explore the unknown in search of arthritisbane. Your reason for the search is to find something to help your arthritis. You enter the forest, dark and damp. The joints in your body begin to swell, and pain sweeps through your hands and knees. All the while, you're asking yourself, can I make the journey? If I find the plant, will my hands be able to break off a sample? I’m in pain--can I focus long enough to get the plant? Will I remember my way back?

Being sick and searching the web is similar to the metaphor above--try to focus after chemotherapy! Imagine what an ill person is feeling when trying to find a treatment that will really help. Ineedacure.com will change the way a person searches for his own cure or remedy. It will consider vision, focus and physical ability in order to help find answers without swimming an ocean of links. --Dzb123 (talk) 16:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)