Google Co-Op

[fsmedia]

Matt Cutts mentioned something about Google Co-Cop, but there's nothing at the URL quite yet, so we'll just have to stay tuned for that.

[BILZ]

I cant find what you are talking about. The link you gave to his blog has some story about the press coming to the Googleplex. Can you pull an excerpt so i dont have to read 3000 words to find what you are talking about.

[fsmedia]

All that Matt mentioned was this:

Originally Posted by Matt Cutts

Moving right along. Marissa is mentioning something else new: Google Co-op.

[LaCabra]

We can always start rumor that "Google is buying the DP CO-OP !!!"

[fsmedia]

Yeah, Shawn just didn't want to tell us :P

[lorien1973]

Q: Do the participants in Google Co-op pay?
A: Marissa: No, no one pays or is paid. Jonathan: Which fits with our philosophy.

Sounds like a "yahoo answers" type deal to me. Or social bookmarking:

Q: Is social networking a big part of Google’s future? Or do they not scale as well?
A: Eric: Google Co-op will be very algorithmic and provide better ways to improve search, so

Or according to this blog, letting google host your files *cringes*

http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/40059.html

[fsmedia]

There has been talk about /uds/ -- unlimted data storage, already from reports of the robots.txt on google.com. We'll see where it ends up...

[ServerUnion]

I wonder if this will come out during the media day today. They say they have a great new application launching today.

[ash1]

did they announce the new app yet?

[TheHoff]

http://today.reuters.com/business/ne...RODUCTS-DC.XML

[lorien1973]

http://www.google.com/coop

works now.

[fsmedia]

Yeah, another social networking product...wonder how successful it will be

[jimkarter]

Wow...its really a good tool.

[lorien1973]

I don't get the point of it.

[onedollar]

Originally Posted by lorien1973

I don't get the point of it.

yes, what does it do exactly?

[fsmedia]

I have no idea lol I haven't spent time to read it over completely, I've been busy.

[transversestyles]

Isn't this like ask the expert questions? I thought Google had something similar.

[SumitBahl]

Looks something like a mixture of Orkut and a Forum/Coomunity, but all technical.

[max pain]

Check this out :

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12727636/

Google tries jumping out of the browsers onto your desktops

[mad4]

Go to the front page of digg and there is a link so you can subscribe to the digg feed.

When you search on the normal google it shows up results from digg as well.

It would be great if shawn could do something with the api to allow posts from here to show up as well.