Comments on: Yoople : Yahoo + Google + People !

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:06:36 +0000

Google does already have something like this in the works
http://www.google.com/experimental/a840e102.html

I think once Google’s goes live this site wouldn’t be able to gain the amount of traffic to make it a success.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:04:02 +0000

This is precisely the kind of thing I’ve been both hoping for and writing about for some time.

However, it could be that Yoople have a fight on their hands — Google Labs recently rolled out a project that’s sort of doing the same thing.

Admittedly, there are differences, but Google have the much greater footprint of the two.

Plus I imagine Google are eager to back-fill this void they left to StumbleUpon to fill while they busied themselves getting a collective clue about Social Media…

By: 2GoodGuys

2GoodGuys — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:47:06 +0000

Yoople is a really cool concept of adding the human element into search results. I agree controlling abuse is an area the people at Yoople will have to take seriously. Love the concept.

By: Jim McDonald

Jim McDonald — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:08:58 +0000

If they find a way to control potential abuse, I think this refinement, as simple as it seems, could be huge. I would definitely use something like this as long as the SERPs that I landed on already had a critical mass of visits/ranking changes.