Why Big.com?
I don’t see why BIG.com is getting any attention at all:
In Chinese I could say, ????????. In English, “Big isn’t better.” Just taking Google (or whatever mix of search results) and making everything larger and slightly more textually simple isn’t at all an innovation. In this regard, the infamous gada.be is more innovative at meta-search than Big.
Russell Beattie decided to make his pages all big. Great. The Search Engine Watch says “it’s pretty cool.” I say it’s nothing worth looking at, and something nobody would ever want to actually use. It’s also a terrible waste of a three-letter-word domain name.
Update: I am really sorry that I rank in the SERPs for the keywords you’re using to get here, but it’s all your fault. It just took one of you to search for “big xxxxx” and then the rest poured in. Now GO AWAY!
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on March 18th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
My grandpa might use it. He only reads the headlines in the Chinese newspaper, because he can’t see the regular-size print anymore.
on March 19th, 2006 at 12:49 am
You know, if you make your browser text size bigger, they will all be big.com to you. There’s actually nothing innovative about a website with big text… I make them big whenever I want.
(It’s CTRL + in Firefox)
on March 20th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Using 1024×768, I’ll have to scroll horizontally when I’m viewing the search results. What a “good” site.