Thread: MC Hammer too legit to quit.........Starting a search engine

Damn "outperform google" ........more power to Hammer

OK, maybe you can. But MC Hammer doesn't want you to.
The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early '90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools.
The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.
At the conference, he said what will make his search tool better than Google (or, too legit to quit, if you will) will be its "deep search" ability.
"It's about relationships beyond just the keywords," he said, according to Mashable, a CNN.com content partner.
The rapper-turned-entrepreneur (after some late-90s difficulties) said a search would render not just direct results, but also information on possibly related topics. Its tagline is: "Search once and see what's related."
Other details about the product were scarce.
WireDoo, which Hammer said he has a team developing, is still in pre-beta. Its website is currently letting people sign up to test the search engine when a beta release is ready.

MC Hammer launching his own search engine - CNN.com

if microsoft can't touch google with Bing, what the hell makes him think he can?

Originally Posted by TurboBaron9

if microsoft can't touch google with Bing, what the hell makes him think he can?

+1

Bing sucks, and they are trying too hard to link news stories to their web search so they can up the number of "Hits" or "searches" they can have counted. Bing is not very good.

Google is going to be tough to beat simply because they now are so large, so fast, and have so much to offer. The only way any search engine will ever beat Google is if the offer basically the same and promise not to track you or keep your personal information, even then its an uphill battle

Apple was successful because they copied others and did a better job of it. The mouse, the mp3 player, their phone.. all of these products existed before apple came along....

point?

If MC can do a better job of copying someone elses success, then he has it made.

Originally Posted by Stance

Apple was successful because they copied others and did a better job of it. The mouse, the mp3 player, their phone.. all of these products existed before apple came along....

point?

If MC can do a better job of copying someone elses success, then he has it made.

this is true, but you gotta remember that Apple did this when the computer industry was non-existent. Google is too big of a giant at this point to be knocked down.