Archive for June, 2006

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As some of you have recently been emailing and commenting on, yes, we are postponing the announcement of the contest winner and posting of the awards video until after the July 4th holiday weekend. Due to a number of internal decisions, we have opted to wait until Wednesday, July 5th, to make the announcement and […]

Today we released an updated version of Snap.com which included the following new or changed features:

User Contributed Ratings: a way for Snap Users to "judge" any result for any search as either "Perfect" or "Junk." Meant to be used when a site is clearly the 'perfect site for that search' (e.g. nasa.gov to 'NASA' search) […]

Yeah, we won a Webby! Well we got an official honoree award in the mail for our OLD site, pre May 15th re-launch. The committee reviewed the site ages ago, and since then we of course have overhauled Snap almost 1000%. It’s ironic to say the least, but we are very happy about the award […]

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Hello, Just a little update…. we are still reviewing the submitted Launch Ideas and their Votes. We will be posting an updated roster and tally list as soon as we can (or just keep tabs on your RSS feed). Thanks again for such a great response to the contest and all of your submissions.
Remember, we […]

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Voting and idea submission for the Launch Contest have been disabled. This does not mean that the results are final; I think it's safe to assume that the standings will look much different once we account for fradulent votes. Yeah, uh, there were a lot of those.

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You have a search engine right? So, for a fixed period (say 1 year) have a set of sponsored results solely for websites that link to or have a SNAP search box. Webmasters want more hits from search engines - you can give them that at no cost - in return you get traffic and […]

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Snap should launch their site with a series of teaser ads on major web sites across a variety of genres. The ads would be tailored to relate to the content of the site that it is featured on. For example if Snap would place an ad on ESPN the ad would say something like "Snap […]

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instead of one person winning the contest - we should equally divide the prize amongst all the people who entered the contest.

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hold a surf contest and give out prizes with snap.com on the boards, so when the surfers walk with the boards, people see the advertisements.