Comments on: Sproose tries to mix man and machine for better search results http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071010/4846/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071010/4846/#comment-642444 TDavid Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:34:22 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071010/4846/#comment-642444 C'mon Bob, let's get past emotions here. What "important" features did I miss in the review? I'd love for you or anybody over there to show me something truly innovative about Sproose. As for your beef in #1 you're contradicting the text <a href="http://www.sproose.com/static/corporate/about" rel="nofollow">on your own <strike>FAQ</strike> 'why you should love us' page</a>: <blockquote>The site will only be removed from your personal index. <b>If many Sproose users identify a bad site it will be eliminated from ranking results</b>. Sproose only allows one vote per user and has built-in barriers so non-users, robots, or scripts will be blocked or removed.</blockquote> Why don't you fix the comment box that's cut off in Firefox (one of the two most popular browser out there -- because it's almost completely unusable in its current state) and the other issues I mentioned in the review. Sorry you didn't like the review -- they rarely do when they aren't flowery praise -- but the truth is Sproose is average at best in its current incarnation. Best of luck in making it better and more useful. That's what it's all about, isn't it? C’mon Bob, let’s get past emotions here. What “important” features did I miss in the review? I’d love for you or anybody over there to show me something truly innovative about Sproose.

As for your beef in #1 you’re contradicting the text on your own FAQ ‘why you should love us’ page:

The site will only be removed from your personal index. If many Sproose users identify a bad site it will be eliminated from ranking results. Sproose only allows one vote per user and has built-in barriers so non-users, robots, or scripts will be blocked or removed.

Why don’t you fix the comment box that’s cut off in Firefox (one of the two most popular browser out there — because it’s almost completely unusable in its current state) and the other issues I mentioned in the review. Sorry you didn’t like the review — they rarely do when they aren’t flowery praise — but the truth is Sproose is average at best in its current incarnation.

Best of luck in making it better and more useful. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?

]]> By: Bob Pack http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071010/4846/#comment-642432 Bob Pack Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:16:45 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20071010/4846/#comment-642432 What were you really reviewing?? You missed some of the most important features! It seems to me you were groping to even understand what funtionality should be reviewed. 1. trashing a site only removes it from your personal index, notthe whole -you would have known that by reading the site. 2. if you searched for database software on Google, Oracle is #20 and mysq is #13...on sproose they are user voted at the top, improving their site ranking by the community. Better example than your ...hmmm 3. Corporations....I guess you didn't get it, spam is a huge issue for search engines getting worse by corporations paying to artificially inflate their ranking...on sproose corporations can't buy position over user votes. 4. Design is matter of taste, and your seems suspect! Bob Pack CEO Sproose What were you really reviewing?? You missed some of the most important features! It seems to me you were groping to even understand what funtionality should be reviewed.

1. trashing a site only removes it from your personal index, notthe whole -you would have known that by reading the site.
2. if you searched for database software on Google, Oracle is #20 and mysq is #13…on sproose they are user voted at the top, improving their site ranking by the community. Better example than your …hmmm

3. Corporations….I guess you didn’t get it, spam is a huge issue for search engines getting worse by corporations paying to artificially inflate their ranking…on sproose corporations can’t buy position over user votes.

4. Design is matter of taste, and your seems suspect!

Bob Pack
CEO
Sproose

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