subject: Internet Business Ideas [print this page] These are several new internet business ideas that I won't be trying, but I hope that somebody will. The first comes from people's frustration with technologies like e-book formatters. They do not want to spend hundreds for the software, and even when they do, they have trouble learning to use it.
The solution? A service business that compiles e-books for people. You could actually have clients e-mail a photo and story about each family member or friend, and make a photo scrapbook for them. Whatever the purpose of the book is, the concept is that the consumer can easily download the book when completed.
You would even host it on your website for a year or more, using the download link on a page that only the consumer knows the address of. They can direct individuals to the page to give the book away, sell it, or otherwise, disperse it to whomever they wish. A larger contract might be doing the first high school yearbook in an e-book format (probably already done by the time you read this).
New Internet Search Engine Suggestions
You may know that Google along with other search engines give preference to sites which are older.
A solution is a search engine that provides highest priority to new web sites. It might even drop websites from the results once they are six months old, or possibly always display those older websites on the bottom half of the page. The top results would usually be the most relevant websites which are also the newest. This is not meant to be better than existing search engines, but to serve a niche they don't serve.
Why is this a workable internet business concept? To some extent because it would be so different from other search engines that would attract attention and usage. Perhaps much more significantly, numerous individuals would love to check frequently to see what new websites are out there covering "dogs," "backpacking," money making," "baby names," or whatever.
Another search engine I would like to see is one just for shopping. Imagine searching for "leather coat," and rather than finding websites that happen to use the words and others that know how to optimize, you obtained 80-word descriptions of numerous leather jackets, always with the price along with other important information. If performed well, only fishing poles will be in the results when you typed in "I want to buy a fishing pole."
It might be a paid-inclusion search engine. The user just would like to purchase something, without the usual info websites in the results or "Buy leather on Ebay!" advertisements. Results could be randomly presented to start, with the ones getting clicks rising to the top of the results. This will be a democratic placement comparable to Google's ads, but with adequate information to make it much more substantial than five to ten-word sales pitches.
