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Psst...New Search Engine // General DiscussionjohnAug 20, 2002, 9:06am
http://www.zenith-studios.com/search/
:D << Made it Please submit any urls you may have eepAug 20, 2002, 10:50am
Psst, Google's better.
[View Quote] > http://www.zenith-studios.com/search/ > > :D << Made it > > Please submit any urls you may have kahAug 20, 2002, 11:12am
"eep" <eepNOSPAM at tnlc.com> wrote in news:3D6235B6.696954F at tnlc.com:
> Psst, Google's better. tsk, FAST Search & Transfer all the way! KAH shredAug 20, 2002, 4:36pm
Not to be pessimistic here, but any attempt at starting a new search engine is most likely doomed to failure. The internet already has fifty zillion search engines, and Google just about knocks the stuffing out of all of them.
[View Quote] johnAug 20, 2002, 5:02pm
eepAug 20, 2002, 6:16pm
Huh? Never heard of it...and there's a reason for that--because it most likely sucks. ;)
[View Quote] > "eep" <eepNOSPAM at tnlc.com> wrote in news:3D6235B6.696954F at tnlc.com: > > > tsk, FAST Search & Transfer all the way! shredAug 20, 2002, 8:24pm
According to Google (boy, the irony's so thick you could cut it with a knife), he's referring to http://www.fastsearch.com
It actually has Flash components on its first page, so that's a huge mark down in my book. Search engines don't need to be flashy; they need to be efficient. [View Quote] ananasAug 21, 2002, 1:58am
"Search engine" doesn't necessarily mean it's using a bots and
spiders. There are search engines that do not try to compete with Google or Altavista, like Yahoo and Northernlight. Some have have revisors, some use own cached pages, some are strictly theme specific. I think, a search engine for VR and/or 3D related pages where someone verifies the submitted start page before they are added to the search pool would be interesting. Especially spider driven search engines are full with crap from people who try to pull visitors with wrong filled tags in the HTML header. Especially the "big" search engines earn money for placing sponsored links in the first hits, so the first 20 are often not the most relevant but the most paying web sites. Statistics show that most people who don't specify their search exactly and receive tons of results stop browsing after a few result pages. This is a big chance for themed and categorized search engines with moderated contents. For some examples how different web search engines can be, visit CUSI at http://cusi.emnet.co.uk/ or (a fancy german version) http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/misc/cusi.html, a better "search portal" than any bot driven engine. I doubt that John even has the slightest chance to compete with any bot search engine, they usually have more main memory than most of us have HD space - but theme specific ... we'll see what happens - good luck, John :) [View Quote] kahAug 21, 2002, 12:18pm
"shred" <alexraven at nospam.1starnet.com> wrote in
news:3d62c1a9 at server1.Activeworlds.com: > According to Google (boy, the irony's so thick you could cut it with a > knife), he's referring to http://www.fastsearch.com > > It actually has Flash components on its first page, so that's a huge > mark down in my book. Search engines don't need to be flashy; they > need to be efficient. Actually, you found the corporate site of FAST, not their search engine. Their searchengine is located at http://alltheweb.com and is very efficient and has won awards and stuff. You'll also find many other sites using their search engine, like Tripod. I prefer it over Google, but they're pretty equal (even though it seems like Google are starting to become biased, offering better ranking for money), a search for PHP returned pretty much the same results on both engines on the first page. KAH agent1Aug 21, 2002, 12:35pm
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Anything that Google got money for showing is clearly marked as a "Sponsored
Link". Those don't change the rankings of their "real" results, but are displayed around them. -Agent1 shredAug 21, 2002, 2:09pm
My search results via Google seem to be evenly distributed when I search for different key words that bring in quite a few results. If Google's taking bribes, I can't tell.
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