Sorry the hiking didn't work out for you. If you are so inclined, drop me a note at mark – at – goby.com with your location and we'll investigate. We're young and always looking to improve.

Re: “steal”. We don't steal any more than Google or any other search engine does. The legal questions around fair use are quite settled (e.g. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/01/google-cac… more importantly, we attribute all the content we find, we obey the standard robots.txt protocol, and we'll happily remove content at an owner's request.

The bigger picture though: people today are buried by an avalanche of information and search engines provide a valuable service by helping people understand and comprehend that avalanche. Whether Goby has legs – well, obviously we believe it does, but in the end the market will decide that.

We're taking a different angle on the problem of finding things to do. Rather than having users search for something to do near them, Poig.com is a new way to find out what your friends want to do (even before they make a plan or check in). We believe that social discovery is a powerful (and untapped) way to figure out what to do around you.

TheDealMap seems to have obvious quality control problems, the other players which offer a similar product to yours have higher quality results, albeit without the huge number to brag about, but quality vs quantity? i'd take quality.

So you, steal then? Yahoo directory 1997, searching all the generic travel portals, and other-peoples-content “organized” into “content”. Wow. Brazen. Pretty slow too, average query takes eons.

Any local site worth it's salt will toast anything gobyified. Two hiking trails in RIGHT my hometown, and the only reco I get is 25 some miles away, yet a simple Google search grabs both. I don't think this has legs.