T. Mills – Startups – Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl – TWiST #222
0:00-2:30 Today on TWiST, Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl are here to talk about web search and indexing. 2:30-4:30 How’s everything going over at Factual, Gil? 4:30-5:15 Nova, how are you doing? What are you up to? 5:15-6:00 So you come up with ideas and get funding for them, then move onto the next idea? 6:00-8:00 Thank you to Walker Corporate Law for sponsoring the program. Everyone thank @ScottEdWalker! 8:00-9:45 Let’s talk about Common Crawl–what you’re doing and why it’s important. 9:45-12:00 Why is this a big concern of Google and Yahoo? 12:00-14:00 How much of ThisWeekIn.com to you have stored there? 14:00-16:30 When you shed light on open systems and platforms, that makes them even better, yes? 16:30-19:00 What’s the future looking like for search companies, in terms of building a competitor? 19:00-21:30 Nova: Explain how partners or other people can add to the data set. 21:30-24:00 What effect does the social web have on search? 24:00-26:30 Google Plus is the most successful social network since Facebook and Twitter, why hasn’t Facebook put out an open, searchable version? 26:30-31:30 Thank you to GoToMeeting for sponsoring the program. Sign you for your 30 day free trial at GoToMeeting.com and use the promo code ‘START.’ 31:30-33:30 So why not launch this as a commercial product? Do you see a time that people would be able to pay to access this data cache? 33:30-35:00 Are there any applications that a consumer can go look at right now? (See Tineye …