Is There a Better Search Algo Than Google’s?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/62254
***FS*** If there is, the race is on to find it. 200 Billion in market cap cuts both ways.. You can’t sustain that kind of cap without outsiders trying to invest/compete against it. Search has been a constantly renewing cycle since the dawn of the web.. I think google will always have a significant position, but like the browsers (where seemingly unstoppable IE has lost double digit share) Google will lose users at the periphery. I already navigate to Wikipedia as my “first search” for 10% or so of my searches. Some day you will too.
Hi,
Gotta love this article and some of the quotes:
My FAVORITE QUOTE:
“”What’s to keep someone stuck on Google? “The moment someone proves themselves better than Google, people will switch in a heartbeat,” Srihari says. Just ask anyone who was at AltaVista in the late 1990s.”"
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Been chiming this ‘cow bell’ a while myself…lol
Peace!
Dan
I listened to Baidu.com’s earnings call last week and they said they are launching an auction version in 2008. Very smart guys running that business, they recognize that people search for reviews before they buy, then they buy. Baidu wants the traffic and eyeballs for both events, their goal is to be eBay+Google all on one site. I wonder if Google will make the next step.
Yahoo has already better search algo. Often what Google does not find, Yahoo does. it is because Google is manipulating with their search results too much, banning many pages and domains.
There is a better Search engine, it is a product of the same team that brought you Wikipedia. It’s Wikia http://www.wikia.com