I wanted to like Pressflip. I did. It was a sound idea written on a sound platform by smart programmers. It should have been awesome. it should have been a "killer app." However, after trying Pressflip several times, I always end up back at Google and Google Blog Search.

"Where is Meat of Cow for my mouth?"

This is the problem with Pressflip, it doesn't turn up anything interesting. It turns up articles about iPhone, just like everything else. It turns up articles about John McCain, which my LiveJournal friends list does in spades. Pressflip, though, doesn't turn up anything I want to see: porn. Not just porn, pirated comic scans, too.

Okay, okay. Pirated comic scans is where Pressflip really fails me, because I already have all the Black Canary fetish sites book marked at delicious.

See, thanks to really useful web services like Rapidshare, Sendspace, and the like, you can find almost any comic book for free by looking for "[comic title] [issue number] cbr" at Google. You have to refine the search sometimes, but more often than not, two weeks after hitting the comic shops, Roogleshare has comics for free. The only problem here is, to find the comics, I have to go to Google, type in my search, and weed through a lot of 100MB bittorrent seeds that have comics I don't want to read.

"If only someone would create a smart filter to weed out those bad links for me."

Pressflip was supposed to be the answer to this problem. Click the links that match what you want, flip away the ones you don't, and Pressflip gets smarter. The promise was Pressflip would find links you wanted before you knew you wanted them. Thus far, whenever I search for anything that's not either iPhone or already bombarding mt blog feed, the only results I get are Google Ads.

Way to fail, guys. And as for porn, forget about it.