So last week, we were wrestling with the function - and therefore credibility - of PubSub, the prospective search engine. I outlined a three-part strategy for giving the place the benefit of the doubt - starting with the dubious approach of sending an email to the general query address.

A point in their favor: within two hours, someone named Duncan Werner replied to my email. A point deducted: he didn’t explain why the engine wasn’t working, and offered no timeframe for it picking up our feeds. He simply said to wait.

So, we’ve waited - and sent him one more email. Pending a reasonable reply, it’s on to emailing the CEO.

PubSub, right now, is looking like it’s all hat and no cattle. Gets a million hits on Technorati….so maybe it’s us. But the bottom line at CoFactors is that - regardless of technical expertise - it should be possible to get something like PubSub working.

So far, no good.

JF

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 at 10:24 am and is filed under Search and SEM, Diary of a Business Blog.