IITian - 5:28 am on Jul 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

Results are not that great but it is just starting out and therefore it is too early to make a judgement.

One thing I liked about this is that some of the commercial websites that are doing extremely well on Google are not to be seen on page 1. These are the sites that through years of experience know Google's algo inside out and through careful manipulation have learnt to be at top even though the content, while relevant, is not worthy of page 1 showing.

In contrast, my web pages, that were on page 2-3 of Google because of these sites, are showing up on page 1, ahead of them, as it should be, in my view. ;)</p>

It will be interesting to watch these sites change in response to this new search engine. I am sure they are studying the serps very carefully and moving one keyword from one place to other and so on.

I think competition to Google was long overdue and different algos will help better websites to get more exposure by making it difficult for long-term SEOed sites to be optimized for all the SE's and therefore, block out other sites.