Forum Moderators: bakedjake
[sfgate.com...]
Dozens of small Web sites offer ways of finding information that differ at least modestly and in some cases radically from some of the most popular search engines. They vary in quality from useful to useless. But their mere existence illustrates the continuing quest for new and better search technologies.
There are also some intersting developments that aren't US based such as Kartoo's mapping, localised search and day parting from Mirago and a number of searches targetting single tld's such as UKWizz.
A nice article - summed up all the US sites and ignored the rest of the world.As long as MSN and Google continue to think in America-centric terms, then most of us tld search engine operators can beat them hands down. Some of the tld search engine operators have a far more optimised detection routine in that they are not relying on spidering everything and hoping for some Infinite Monkeys Algorithm to make sense of it. In some ways a tld search engine is an evolution of the directory site.
The local searching aspect was glossed over towards the end of the article but I think that this is where the real battle with the dinosaurs like the Google,Yahoo,MSN axis is going to be fought. The problem is that the major search engines are all concentrated on macro-searching and the local search business is micro-searching. They are two polar opposites in terms of how the data is collected.
Regards...jmcc
