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Old 04-05-2008, 11:08 AM
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Default Has anyone tried Wink

I came across this the other day...it appears to be a Social Network of Social Network kinda. You can search for someone within Wink and find out all the networks that person is a part of...(it will take a little work to match up who you are looking for). Anyway, I was trying to create my own profile but found it kinda buggy.

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interesting, checked out and does seem inaccurate, will have to play with some more to confirm
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Looks like they are just scraping Google results - that is a no no (Without permission of course)

All they are doing is taking your information and creating a search string such as

"morgan carey" + "nanaimo" + "some other thing that you would have likely filled in a profile"
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think they may be working with Google...

Which of the big search engines do you see align most with your goals for Wink? Which do you think would find the most value in Wink’s offering?

So far, Google has been the most aligned and we have a good partnership wherein they provide core Web search for us and we serve ads using AdSense (which of course they share in the revenue). That isn’t to say Yahoo or MSN wouldn’t be good partners but we have found Google to be very helpful so far. We see that Yahoo has taken quite an interest in social bookmarking (by acquiring del.icio.us) and social search (with MyWeb and Yahoo360). It’s evident they get this area and are invested in it, but I don’t know if that means they’d be a better partner or more of a competitor. These things have a way of evolving over time

Google also offers wink plug in http:// desktop.google.com/plugins/i/debugmode.html?hl=en
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Looks like they are just scraping Google results - that is a no no (Without permission of course)
what does this mean? is it good to link to them or not?
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think they may be working with Google...

Which of the big search engines do you see align most with your goals for Wink? Which do you think would find the most value in Wink’s offering?

So far, Google has been the most aligned and we have a good partnership wherein they provide core Web search for us and we serve ads using AdSense (which of course they share in the revenue). That isn’t to say Yahoo or MSN wouldn’t be good partners but we have found Google to be very helpful so far. We see that Yahoo has taken quite an interest in social bookmarking (by acquiring del.icio.us) and social search (with MyWeb and Yahoo360). It’s evident they get this area and are invested in it, but I don’t know if that means they’d be a better partner or more of a competitor. These things have a way of evolving over time

Google also offers wink plug in http:// desktop.google.com/plugins/i/debugmode.html?hl=en
Actually, I believe you might be correct as when you go into their forum, you have to log into your Google account to do it
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No more new sites...Please I can't take it!! I am going to make my wife get her RE license, so I don't have to waste precious computer time dealing with clients
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sounds like a plan to me
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my wife has her RE license, just a matter of motivation at this point, any ideas???shopping spree for every 100 backlinks created...
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haven't tried that one.
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