A search engine for the black community - fo sho

[nachoninja]

Time to buy some ringtone ads

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[productionhead]

O snapz!

[Deliguy]

Didn't work for me











Wait just figured out why

[turbolapp]

Originally Posted by Deliguy

Didn't work for me











Wait just figured out why

It's racial, man.

[-Matt-]

Every black person I know doesn't give a shit about racial differences - we're all the same so we should all have the same stuff and not segregate because of color.

Yet you don't see any white people search engines.

[Bofu2U]

Originally Posted by -Matt-

Every black person I know doesn't give a shit about racial differences - we're all the same so we should all have the same stuff and not segregate because of color.

Yet you don't see any white people search engines.

Or White Entertainment Television.

[nachoninja]

Originally Posted by Bofu2U

Or White Entertainment Television.

you're on to something

[Bofu2U]

Originally Posted by nachoninja

you're on to something

Oh, man.

whiteentertainmenttelevision.com is not available. Make an offer on whiteentertainmenttelevision.com at Afternic.com.

.org's avail!

[crazyfish]

WET??

Who has a offer for malt liquor? jk

[LotsOfZeros]

Originally Posted by -Matt-

Every black person I know doesn't give a shit about racial differences - we're all the same so we should all have the same stuff and not segregate because of color.

Yet you don't see any white people search engines.

Or a 'White Coalition' or a 'United Whiteboy College Fund' .... heaven forbid, we'd be racists if we had that.

[Bofu2U]

Sounds like it's project time, boys.

[Jizzlobber]

Originally Posted by nachoninja

you're on to something

[ZeroOne]

"Stanky good search results"

[Deliguy]

Originally Posted by LotsOfZeros

Or a 'White Coalition' or a 'United Whiteboy College Fund' .... heaven forbid, we'd be racists if we had that.

Yeah organized reverse discrimination and segregation is okay, in fact its considered a noble charity cause. I had to look through dozens of those scholarship programs back in college most required you to be a minority (is 23% still a minority?). Yet none of my black friends in college had any of those types of scholarships or grants even though most of the requirements were simply to be black or be hispanic beyond a certain percentage.

Honestly, if the KKK would of offered me a full ride scholarship back in college I would of thrown on that white robe so fast it'd make martin luther king roll in his grave.

On a side note that is a great site. They did a good job on it.

[LotsOfZeros]

Originally Posted by Deliguy

Yeah organized reverse discrimination and segregation is okay, in fact its considered a noble charity cause. I had to look through dozens of those scholarship programs back in college most required you to be a minority (is 23% still a minority?). Yet none of my black friends in college had any of those types of scholarships or grants even though most of the requirements were simply to be black or be hispanic beyond a certain percentage.

Honestly, if the KKK would of offered me a full ride scholarship back in college I would of thrown on that white robe so fast it'd make martin luther king roll in his grave.

In reality it does nothing to help those that it was set up for since any type of affirmative action quota scholarship program is actually mismatching the beneficiary with a college education that might otherwise be a poor fit for them, hence they fail or drop out, all while blocking a slot for another well-deserving candidate.

A true misappropriation of educational resources for the sake of making political statements.

[kingfish]

Fuck I'm gonna make WET (White entertainment television) fill it with stuff from stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

Bam i'll be rich!!!!

[fm1234]

Oh, snap. I was just doing kw research for content to flesh out an African-American relevant domain I picked up, and was really amazed at how under-served that particular segment is as far as results:search ratios. I think a search engine targeted to AA interests would do very well.

Check out these WT+Google results (note that stuff like "african american wedding planners" and "african american hairstyles" and that kind of thing were edited out -- consumer-relevant stuff was not relevant to the site being put up.)

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Note in particular "african american search engine" -- thousands of searches a month, just 1130 SERP results for exact match.

There are also some interesting differences between "african american" and "african-american" as far as search volume on otherwise identical phrases go. Just a brief example, without the hyphens get searches like "is mariah carey african american" and with gets searches like "was eli whitney african-american."


Frank

[LotsOfZeros]

Lack of prominence of the term African-American is because the term itself bullshit to begin with. Who the hell hyphenates American? We're all Americans. If they don't want to be Americans then they can be Africans but there most certainly makes no sense to make them both. None of them has ever even seen Africa FWIW.

We keep hyphenating this shit and soon we'll be categorizing (and stereotyping) people into their own little sub-species

Gay-Americans, Dyke-Americans, Special-Americans (for the retards), etc.

[fm1234]

Totally irrelevant to the topic at hand -- a lack of the term "African-American" is not what I was observing. Both "African American" and "African-American" get used a lot in search queries; although the former is more common for most given phrasesets, what actually struck me was the overall difference in the terms that the two didn't have in common (and the fact that across a broad subset of search queries there seem to be very few competing pages in the SERPs.)


Frank

[rockhard]

This is better: http://sites.gizoogle.com/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rushmoredrive.com% 2F

[Bofu2U]

Originally Posted by LotsOfZeros

Lack of prominence of the term African-American is because the term itself bullshit to begin with. Who the hell hyphenates American? We're all Americans. If they don't want to be Americans then they can be Africans but there most certainly makes no sense to make them both. None of them has ever even seen Africa FWIW.

We keep hyphenating this shit and soon we'll be categorizing (and stereotyping) people into their own little sub-species

Gay-Americans, Dyke-Americans, Special-Americans (for the retards), etc.

preach on, brotha

[hazzan]

But you do see Chinese and Greek and Italian and African and every other type of search engines out there.

1) As marketers you should see the obvious opportunity in this niche. Something smacks of hipocracy when you readily see the genius in midget fucking niches but not this obvious goldmine.

2)How about this? Black women's asses are bigger, I have a freind who buys jeans in africa and sells them here. Would not this site be a good place for her to advertise?

3) Many blacks in the United States are facing a particular set of challenges. Best wishes to anyone who attempts to meet them.

That said, I went to international schools as a child, have lived in numerous countries, and don't share many of the hangups about race that Americans of all colors seem to have.

My mother on the other hand, remembers growing up in a small southern town where white men in pickup trucks roamed the streets at night looking for black women to rape and kill, and black men to just kill. In fact, she gets disturbed every time she sees a truck with white men in it; because of this, so am I to a much lesser degree.

My Grandmother grew up in a time when black people could be killed in broad daylight for no crime at all.

My Great grandmother grew up just outside of a time when black people in this country were traded like Pokemon cards are today.

It is the legacy of the institutional failure, and outright collusion, of the United States at this time that still haunts many Black Americans today.

Perhaps this legacy prevents a "white entertainment television" from taking off just now.

But rest assured, as the white population continues to decline, you'll get your wish for explicitly all white entertainment venues.



As for me, I would like to spend a few years in Africa, just to get the experience of walking through a throng of similar looking people in racial anonymity.

Things to do in Djibouti when you're dead.

[LotsOfZeros]

Originally Posted by hazzan

My Great grandmother grew up just outside of a time when black people in this country were traded like Pokemon cards are today.

I'll trade you a Denzel Washington and a Queen Latifa for your Eddie Murphy Rookie card

[LotsOfZeros]

I see picsbutler hates having to serve more than one image per post

fail

[hazzan]

[QUOTE=LotsOfZeros;340924]I'll trade you a Denzel Washington and a Queen Latifa for your Eddie Murphy Rookie card

that's a deal. sucker.

[aim]

Perhaps when Barack is President we can petition for White History Month?

[-Matt-]

FOSHIZZLESEARCH.COM is available!

[-Matt-]

Originally Posted by LotsOfZeros

I see picsbutler hates having to serve more than one image per post

fail

try imghostr.net

[LotsOfZeros]

Originally Posted by aim

Perhaps when Barack is President we can petition for White History Month?

January

[Bofu2U]

Originally Posted by aim

Perhaps when Barack is President we can petition for White History Month?

Or have a white college scholarship fund. Hell, they were too busy giving the 2.1 GPA'd "african americans" full rides to help my gf with even a partial, and she pulled a 3.8 every semester.