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I just filled out the application. You bet I’d like to be one of the MSN search champs.
You can fill out the application too. Thank you for offering this opportunity so that anybody can apply, even if you can only accept a few:
We usually select this group based on who we are reading and we think would provide us great insight. We spend a couple of days with the group showing them our future plans, getting their input and making connections. Every time we hold these sessions we inevitably hear from people who want to be included, but we had never heard of them or didn’t know that they would be interested in MSN Search. It’s always with regret that we have to turn people away.
Why do I want to be involved in this? To summarize: I don’t want to see any one company dominate search (Google). Complacency is a side effect of domination (lest we ironically recall IE?). I’d like to see both Yahoo and Google and perhaps a third dark horse make things more competitive for Google. I have what I feel are a few good ideas for improving search, but the problem is nobody has asked for my input directly. I’m not going to blog these ideas or offer them via email/phone beforehand, but I will share them directly, in person, with the first major search company (besides Google) that invites me and is willing to listen and seriously entertain these ideas.
Folks outside of the greater Seattle area shouldn’t be shy about filling out the MSN Search Champs short application (it’s like 10 questions or so) as they have brought in people from all over the world to participate in the past.
Even if I’m not chosen as a Search Champ (again), I’m only 40 minutes or so from the Redmond campus and I’d still be willing to go up there and talk to their team separately. Just have to ask, listen and consider implementing.
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Thanks TDavid! I applied….
Comment by FranciscoIV — December 1, 2005 @ 10:09 am PST
[…] I’ve got many more ideas, but am still holding out that I might possibly be invited to Search Champs v4, so for those with the invite power, consider this merely a taste. If you know someone with invites, then please send a link to this post. […]
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[…] Back in November I applied for Search Champs v4, offering why I felt I should be invited: I don’t want to see any one company dominate search (Google). Complacency is a side effect of domination (lest we ironically recall IE?). I’d like to see both Yahoo and Google and perhaps a third dark horse make things more competitive for Google. I have what I feel are a few good ideas for improving search, but the problem is nobody has asked for my input directly. I’m not going to blog these ideas or offer them via email/phone beforehand, but I will share them directly, in person, with the first major search company (besides Google) that invites me and is willing to listen and seriously entertain these ideas. […]
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