Is that real entrepreneurship - playing someone elses game as good as you can? Why not go after Google itself? Linus Torvalds didnt write cool applications. He rewrote the operating system.
I like the idea to rewrite the web. To reorder how the whole thing works and turn it from monopoly to ecosystem again. I feel fed up with the whole Googleweb.
Lets do it all completely different. Lets get rid of search and advertising alltogether.
Any ideas?
I might have overestimated the demand for privacy, too...
I also think the social bookmarking things would have a chance in improving on Google.
Google always searches the same, entire web whoever you are; maybe it is not the best solution?
Yes, whether it is P2P or not is not very relevant to this problem. On the other hand, P2P allows a not-for-profit, ad-free, "do no evil", privacy and freedom of speech friendly search engine (because the infrastructure costs would be shared between the users). I guess a big problem would be the latency.
(We're hoping to introduce new ideas and more usable presentation methods, without necessarily duplicating sheer technical superiority..that can always come later.)
Anyhow, I'd say you're not nuts. Google's products all suffer from numerous defects, not the least of which is usability (in many cases).