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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

FTB is taking a somewhat different approach to curated search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? We get referring site traffic. The single largest source of growth is organic search. I see where they are going and I am excited by it.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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And if even 1% of users click on the ads because they’re relevant rather than on the organic search it’s a HUGE business (as you know). See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. If we continue our success we will have strong competition. The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site.