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

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However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In 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?

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. 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).

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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. Folksonomy.