Bloodhound FAQ
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The purpose of this page is to organize and craft F.A.Q.s for ultimate upload to Bloodhound. Use of the comment section works well for background, additional ideas, brand new comments and questions, and editorial changes, including cites of spelling or other obvious errors.
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1. What can Bloodhound do for me?
Unlike Google, our Hounds keep hunting and hunting and hunting — rain or shine, Bloodhounds are continuously searching 364/24/7. The Internet is filled with gems of all sizes and stripes. Once Bloodhound “knows” what gems you are seeking, those are the gems that will be returned to you.
2. I still don’t understand why Bloodhound is much different than Google?
When you use Google it almost always returns to you thousands of “relevant” sites? Google’s model is to return thousands of “relevant” sites listing on the first page those web sites based which have the highest number of visits. Googled (rightly) figured that most customers would be satisfied with what was on the first or second page of their search results.
That’s fine if you want to find a hotel in Milwaukee. Or the results of your favorite sports team. But it’s not so good if you wanted to “drill down” for information of a rare kind.
Why Bloodhoud is different.
Bloodhound search method is based on the idea that its Hounds should continuously search the Net and bring back “new” information precisely tailored to what the “owner” wanted. Our model also relies on “owners” who are motivated to help “train” the Hound — by giving it granulated search instructions — so it would keep looking, looking, lookding.
Help Train the Hound: The longer our “owners” use the a Hounds, and the more they help the Hound sniff the landscape, the more gems they will return!
3. Can I see some examples where others are using Bloodhound?
Yes! Please view
to get some idea of how diligent our Hounds. For further references you can also contact these users:
etc.
4. How much does it cost?
Bloodhound is free. Users pay nothing our Hounds.
5. If Bloodhound is free, then how do you get paid?
We get paid the same was as Google. On the web pages that Bloodhound returns to you, there are advertisements which are relevant to your particular search. For instance, if you are a sail boat racer looking for results of races in a certain geographic area, by a certain class of boat, the pages returned by Bloodhound will probably carry advertisements from sail makers or boat sellers or rudder builders. If you click on those advertisements, we get a few pennies from those advertising.
6. What if I don’t like paid advertisements?
Some institutions resist the idea of “pay-per-click” advertising and yet would still like to have the benefits that Bllodhound offers. In those cases we have a subscription model. Please contact for more information.
NOTE FOR PLANNING PURPOSES: This should trigger an autoresponder response which should trigger an alert to the appropriate BH contact person.
7. How do I acquire a Bloodhound”?
To get started with Bloodhound,
8. I am having trouble training Bloodhound to return what I want. What can I do?
Bloodhound search is a dynamic process….for your Hound to return the gems that are “out there”, he needs your help. Here are web pages that can help you “train” the Hound. Trust us when we say that the effort you make will be well worth the rewards Bloodhound returns.
NOTE FOR PLANNING: Some heavy duty discussion and design work to come here.
9. Tell me more about the Company?
Bloodhoundsearch is a public company listed ——–, call sign —–. It was founded in _______by blaw, blaw blaw.
10. Who do I contact for more information?
For information about how to work for Bloodhound:
For information about how to better train your Hound:
For investor/financial information:
For advertising information write
For partnering with us, please write
October 16th, 2006 at 10:13 am
ABOUT USE OF AUTORESPONDERS AND PRECISE EMAIL ADDRESS
An easy example of the “problem” of listing FAQ’s is that, I say, that each time a viewer was “more information”, they should be able to click on an email address, which opens their email client. The Bloodhound email address is ALWAYS an autoresponder address — so a generic answer is returned, but more detailed than is provided on the FAQ “answer”. That response instantly generates an alert that goes to one or more individuals responsible for appropriate follow up. All of this should go into a data bank for review by the leadership — for obvious reasons.
It may be that the great bulk of the individual responses come from a single person. But the address for “help” would be tailored to the kind of “help” requested.
For example, in the FAQ’s I created, I propose address’ with “warm” connotation –
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Who do I contact for more information?
For information about how to work for Bloodhound:
For information about how to better train your Hound:
For investor/financial information:
For advertising information write
For partnering with us, please write
October 16th, 2006 at 10:25 am
USE OF THE ADDRESS LINE IN THE URL TO IDENTIFY AND NARROW THE TOPIC OF THE PAGE AND HELP WITH IDENTIFICATION
Ultimately, I would like to see a direct linkage between the url address and the text on the page. Hopefully, these two examples illustrate what I am talking about.
1. NOW WE HAVE on the icon TECHNOLOGY
Under my “theory” the Icon would change to ABOUT, with this url:
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about.htm
The ABOUT page then becomes an “index page” which would lead to “drill down pages relevant to “about” issues, each one of these examples as identified in the url address.
Examples reached from
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/
Each of the below would have a two sentence description followed by a hyperlink leading to these pages
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/concept.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/google.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/technology.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/business.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/people.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/contact.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/investors.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/oursite.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/about/faq
2. ANOTHER EXAMPLE (FUTURE PLANS)
I believe this could change to an icon reading HOUNDS
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/Hounds.htm
the HOUNDS “Index” (Directory) would serve as an Index Page leading to those particular page about how to acquire a Hound and how to train him… )
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/Hounds/acquirepuppy.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/Hounds/trainingpuppy.htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/Hounds.help/htm
http://www.bloodhoundsearch.com/Hounds/faq.htm
FAQ’s would be designed to briefly answer the question with the LEARN MORE hyper link leading “back” to a precise page where the entire issue would be detailed. (Each page would have a link back to both the relevant Index Page and to the Home Page)
October 16th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Viewers to this page should visit
http://reddit.com/help/
and crawl all over reddit….one of the fastest growing “social network” sites on the Web — and in it’s own way a source for Bloodhound…and, maybe?, a model for how to acquire and train your Hound?
October 16th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
More on Reddit — for a good model of an FAQ — more on this very interesting site, visit
http://reddit.com/help/faq
(also, note the URL address and pathway)
October 16th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
If I am to understand correctly, you are looking for commentary on a FAQ page for Bloodhound? This would be a lot easier if there was something to demo in order to pre-empt Qs and As. FAQ pages will have generic questisions (What is it?, How much does it cost?, Where do I get it?, What about privacy?, Who can help me?, How do I get started?), but many of the questions will be specific to the use of the product (What do I do now that…., How do I…..). I would recommend an user guide section, that clearly deomstrates how a user would acquire, implement, and deploy their Bloodhound service with screenshots. That is the first step to take.