| Who started Allreaders.com?
(Steve with Jenny the Pomeranian)
These sites were created by one person, me, Steve Gordon. One person,
creating a big site like this? Sounds improbable.
But I've done it before.
1) I'm a graduate of Yale University (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
and from Harvard Law School.
2) I single-handedly created the very first large scale experts site
on the internet, Allexperts.com.
3) I and my work have been featured in over 80 magazines and newspapers,
including The New York Times, USA Today, Wired magazines, and others.
4) I instinctively deduced the principals behind the Gordonator Precision
Search Engine, and the interface needed to power it.
5) I recruited the thousands of volunteers to help build the GPSE into
the thing of beauty it is today, and
6) I'm a writer myself: 20 novels and counting. I'm currently thinking of branching out into short films.
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Why Allreaders was created: To get more people reading more books.
I got up one morning and realized that it was pretty difficult to find
new authors I liked. I would have to stand in the bookstore for hours,
reading the backs of books, buying a few, and then, when I got home and
really started reading, realizing that I didn't really like what I had
bought. Shopping online was even worse, because I didn't have the backs
of those bookcovers to read.
I realized immediately that fiction, unlike non-fiction, was very
difficult to classify. I noticed that unless a book was a "top 20" book,
it wasn't browsable on Amazon.com et.al. unless one knew the exact author
or title to look for. One couldn't search for a book with a specific kind
of plot, or a specific kind of character. New authors had trouble getting
discovered, and even established authors had trouble expanding their reach.
Being a writer, I started thinking about what people liked, and disliked
about books. I realized that people didn't just like books, they liked
certain plots in books, certain kinds of characters in books, certain kinds
and amounts of action and dialogue in books. if I could turn this idea
into a database that could be accessed by a search engine, I would be doing
the fiction readers and writers of the world a great service.
The same applied to our movie review engine at Allwatchers.com. What allreaders could do for books, allwatchers could do for movies.
And so I created the GPSE, the Gordonator Precision Search Engine. Catchy
title, eh? All the focus groups loved it.
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