The Google of Europe?

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8 points·lapenne··7 comments

Why everything has to be the next Google or the Google of something even they cleary are not?

They don't have the same significance as Google. What they have is a content creators(1-5% of english(?) net users?) nice-to-have tool and Google has a essential search(+ more) for everyone(~100% of users).

This is not just for bloggers: it is (or better will be) also for anyone publishing content on the web. Newspapers are moving (or better, moved) to the internet. This can bring a lot of value(reduce costs) to big companies so it is a valuable startup.

In my opinion a lot better than any of the YCombinator startups yet. It has a cool (non-trivial) technology underneath and it actually brings value.

edit: About it being the next Google - granted it is far from being the next Google, but I can see it being very sucessful.

VC is just looking for money-making cows. That's what 'next google' or 'google of Europe' means: our local cow.

What a silly comparison. The only company that has a chance of becoming the next Google is a company that can amass as much data as google. The days of better algos beating more data are behind us.

I can really see this startup succeeding: unlike most web 2.0 companies, they actually have the technology (if it works as they say -- I believe they are using some quite sophisticated NLP/AI stuff on the backend) that provides added value to the users.

Currently it only support a few blogging platforms, but I believe Joomla and other CMS support is also coming, as well as an API.

Any idea how it compares to OpenCalais (reuters) Tagaroo? http://www.opencalais.com/gallery

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