| Why Scribd When You Can Gazhoo? | | | | find. So, why would one put up a document to be |
| For all those people who are not quite familiar with | | | | shared at Scribd when one can make money for it at |
| either of them, here's a brief overview. | | | | Gazhoo? |
| Scribd is a social document sharing website that | | | | Making money is not the only thing that makes |
| borrowed a lot of the basic design principles from | | | | Gazhoo better than Scribd. I also found that on |
| YouTube. Scribd lets you publish and discover | | | | Scribd, for all their searches for documents, they do |
| documents online. It is like a big online library where | | | | not use "stopwords". That is, when your search |
| anyone can upload. | | | | contains the word "of"; at Scribd it will return results |
| Gazhoo, on the other hand, is just like Scribd, but it | | | | highlighting "of", wherein Gazhoo will simply ignore |
| took Scribd one step further. It allows you to buy | | | | these words. This results in more specific search at |
| and sell just about any type of documents. So, when | | | | Gazhoo, than at Scribd. Even the most basic classes |
| you upload a document at Gazhoo, you quote a price | | | | on information retrieval and data mining teach you to |
| for it. And when another user buys your document, | | | | cut out stopwords. |
| Gazhoo will pay you via Paypal's payment processing | | | | Although Gazhoo is new, its user base is growing |
| solutions. | | | | rapidly. They have also made a Facebook Application |
| Both Gazhoo and Scribd have a custom Flash | | | | called "Documents", thereby not needing users to |
| document viewer that lets you display documents | | | | leave Facebook in order to make use of Gazhoo's |
| right in your Web browser. Gazhoo though will allow | | | | service. This gives the documents you upload at |
| you to see just 50% of it, before you buy it. With | | | | Gazhoo, a large number of prospect buyers. People |
| the Flash viewer, coupled with detailed user ratings | | | | are ready to buy high quality documents at cheaper |
| and reviews, no other websites offers this level of | | | | cost. And that's what Gazhoo is all about, high quality |
| transparency and buyer assurance for the purchase | | | | documents at very competitive cost. |
| of documents, as does Gazhoo. | | | | If the document you uploaded at Scribd has become |
| Now, as you can see, at both places, content is user | | | | very popular, don't you think its time for you to |
| generated and put in categories for other users to | | | | make money out of it at Gazhoo? |