Ideas

Not a bad idea but can't c it working.

Most of the issues above are just BAD WEB/UI design by the web site company. So they either havn't the brains 2 increase their search options (and offer flexibility) 2 the users OR they are dependant on 3rd party db's/API's that don't offer xtra search options (and/or etc..)

IF u're offering a "comparision" of a web site and xtra comments by folks on how 2 improve I believe something along those lines are already done. May be more 2nd-web and note taking (i.e. hop to any site that u have a browser extn and u can c xtra comments etc..)
Some of these "ideas" are dot-com arena and died and getting resurrected. Not 2 say they'll last.

Also no indication that a company would take any notice or even know about these comments. They should and would that heh! thats a different story.

Maybe create a site that consolidates these comments and emails them 2 the company as complaints. But then again a lot of companies don't offer discussion forums, blogs and FREE comments (that aren't censored)

Lal, this idea is about the community deciding what they want to search on and to integrate 3rd party data where available. However, the idea is that for those who submit directly using the audience chosen template there are more options and thus these results are more likely to rise to the top. The 3rd party sites would have some incentive to then try and reach this new standard. Those that didn't would still have the route suggest by my "intelligent search spider" proposal which is complimentary to this one. I enjoy studying innovative search techniques!

I think you need to spend some time refining the description of your idea so its a little bit clearer for everyone. I have not really had too many complaints about existing job search sites, and I think that its a market that's pretty much been done to death.

Perhaps if you hadn't submitted like 50 ideas for this competition you could have spent more time refining some of them.

chacha.com

I personally like it. What this initiative is doing is asking sites to not just present their data, but also classify and tag the information they present. Right now the big search engines spider the net and luckily for all of us they have built some very clever algorithms that can make good judgments about content (most of time that is... some first page google hits are useless dribble).

But these bots have to take time to figure out things. A "dumber" program is a faster program. The less the spider has to infer, the less time it has to spend on a page when making its crawls.

Now is a great time to clean up some of the clutter on the internet by adding some classification and tagging data to web pages. Let's make it easier to search and classify before the next billion people get online.

I understand the concept but I agree with ThrasherC, it's too vague a description. It's like submitting an idea for "a sort of machine that does stuff when you tell it to". There's probably a great idea buried in there but all you've given us is an attempt at describing a technical solution to a problem that's not clearly defined.

It's an interesting idea - if you can come up with a sensible site structure and algorithm/engine to make this work smoothly and intuitively it could work.