Surf Roots, Software Thoughts

It appears as though Google has beaten me to the punch again.  A few months back I wanted to create a user-driven, Q&A-style search engine.  Two days after I got my idea and started coding I learned that Google had done this in Google Labs and that Mahalo was already doing this.  Dang.

Another recent idea I had was to create an index of non-profit organizations in hopes of allowing people to become more aware of the organizations that are out there.  Google just announced that as well.  I suppose it’s better Google than me - they have huge traffic and will most likely generate a lot of donations.  If my non-profit index would follow suit with all of my other websites such as Helpd, which has somewhat of a similar goal, then the non-profits would get little to no donations.  Go take a look at what Google is doing, and donate if you want.  It’ll probably help out :).  I donated to Acterra.