Woyano works in partnership with Google & Yahoo

Book, cover, judge, moi?

On first look at Woyano some may be tempted to think it's trying to be a search engine in competition with Google & Yahoo. But the reality is that it's in partnership with them.

Woyano has no intention of trying to get users to abscond from Google and use our search instead... quite the opposite.

We want people to use Google, and to stumble upon useful free content at Woyano.

It's just another way for our users to get readership, community, and generate revenue.

An example?

Woyano has been designed from the ground up to be a very easy place for users to input content of any type, no matter how small or how big. But I really want to highlight the SMALL rather than the big.

For example, on Google I often find myself doing a search such as:

"recursive grep unix"

Typically I find myself having to browse through a few links and wading through some hefty text to find exactly what I'm looking for. It's a bit of a pain, considering that I just want to copy and paste the command within a few seconds. Wouldn't it be nice if someone made a page which had absolutely nothing on it except what I was looking for.

After all, all I need to see is:

find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep 'nslookup' {} ; -print

So why should there be anything else on the page?

On Woyano a tech user can quickly enter a lot of knowledge snippets like that. When I'm searching in Google I'll be happy if I run into a pithy page like that - rather than long man pages, discussions, and the like.

It benefits the searcher because it's pithy and short (and 100% free - unlike some other expert sites). It benefits the contributor because it took about 2 seconds to input and it generates money!

It's like pennies in the bank :)

EDIT April 9, 2007: You can actualy see this principle at work... if you search Google for apache restart unix , it brings up a short content snippet I added a few weeks ago.