slade7 - 6:09 am on Nov 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

I love all this talk about Google dying the death of a thousand cuts, but here's some sad facts for ya...

I run an informational site about a sport. Of all sites on the web re. this sport, mine is the 3rd largest / most visited site. The two largest belong to official organizations and have yearly budgets that I could only dream of. Everyone at these two larger sites knows my site and they've even had me do some work under contract for them.

I have a very unique domain name that's not used anywhere on the web except in ref. to my site.

When I search for my domain in Overture, which Inktomi claims to power... no actual page straight from my domain site is in at least the top 80 results... There is absolutely no argument that my site is not the most relevant for my domain name.

THAT.. is laughable. That is a joke of a SE. And that will never take the place of google, which come up with 38,400 results, including 28,000+ pages cached from my site.