Internet Business Ideas
Here are a few new internet business ideas that I won't be
using, but I hope that someone will. The first comes from peoples
frustration with technologies like e-books. They don't want to
spend the hundreds for the software, and even when they do, they
have trouble learning to use it.
A service business that compiles e-books for people is a solution
to this problem. You could even have customers e-mail a photo
and story about each family member or friend, and have you make
a photo scrapbook for them. The idea is that they can download
the book when done.
You also host it on your site for a year or more, with the
download link on a page that only they know the address of. That
way they can give the book away, sell it, or otherwise distribute
it to whomever they please. A larger contract might be the first
high school yearbook in an e-book format (probably already done
by the time you read this).
New Internet Search Engine Ideas
If you know a little about search engines, you may know that
Google and others give preference to sites that are older. This
is a part of their search algorithms, and probably a good idea.
It does mean, however, that even the best site in the world on
a given topic may be nearly impossible to find. This can also
happen because the site has few incoming links (another part
of the algorithms).
One solution is a search engine that gives priority to new
web sites. In fact, this search engine might drop sites from
the results once they are six months old, or perhaps always display
those older sites on the bottom half of the page. The top results
would always be the most relevant sites that are the newest.
This wouldn't be better than existing search engines, but would
serve a niche they don't serve.
What makes this a workable internet business idea? The mere
fact that it would be so radically different from other search
engines would attract attention and usage. More importantly,
many people would love to check regularly to see what new sites
are out there covering "backpacking," money making,"
"baby names," or whatever. New site owners, frustrated
waiting to show up in Google would be regular visitors, looking
for their own sites.
Another type of search engine is one I would like to see whenever
I want to buy something. Imagine searching for "leather
jacket," and instead of getting sites that happen to use
the words and others that know how to optimize, you got 80-word
descriptions of various leather jackets, always with the price
and other important information. If done right, only fishing
poles would be in the results when you typed in "I want
to buy a fishing pole."
This could be a paid-inclusion search engine. The only point
here is to buy something, but without the usual information sites
in the results or "Buy leather on Ebay!" advertisements.
Results could be randomly presented at first, with the ones getting
clicks rising to the top of the results. A democratic placement
similar to Google's ads, but with enough information to make
it more meaningful than five to ten-word sales pitches.
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