teoma up

teoma.com is on-line

[Kapitan Krunch]

Another SE is on-line, [teoma.com...]
I saw their crawler a while back.

The first couple of pages of results have
reasonable quality. The folders are a little kooky (click "Showall" to see all the weird ones). The "Expert's Links" section is the most interesting feature IMHO --- they separate the pages with lots of links from "content" pages. The link pages they return aren't half-bad.

A few tests show they don't have as many pages as google though.

[littleman]

Well, I wish you all the best of luck. It looks like it is publicly launching with a substantial database.
Here [tgc.com] is an overview the search technology and it's links to Rutgers university.

Btw, I'm sure we all would be interested if the minds behind teoma or any of the search engine related CS work paid us an official visit. :)

[Froggyman]

Oh, Teoma is definately watching. ;)

[Brett_Tabke]

Interesting. We've been following the spider around. I sure wish you guys that develop se's would do a simple public service by puttin the url to an information page in your agent name, or use a referring string to an info page. Unknown rogue spiders that suck bandwidth like Teoma end up on black lists that get passed around.

re: The Engine

Looks very interesting. I'd be curious about it's coverage.
Relevance is pretty good.
Don't care for the expert links.
Don't care for the attempt to hide the url (the most important bit of information per listing).
Phrase match should be the default.
Need some work on the dupe checker [teoma.com].
Speed is excellent. (which makes me wonder about converage/docs indexed)

Good luck.

[Brett_Tabke]

Interesting in that this search engine is one year old:

Press release [google.com]

Also interesting in that it was developed with Rutgers University. *cough* we do have modern logs here...lol

[Macguru]

I noticed it cannot get HTML accentuated caracters (like & e a c u t e ; ) in page titles but it displays the rest OK. By the way, how to submit to it?

[jeremy goodrich]

My guess is that they are utilizing a whois database, from the activity I've seen in the past.

They've hit domains only registered, without any content, within days of their being registered. Which is what led me to this conclusion, but I could be wrong.

Their results page is interesting...I'm wondering if anybody will "break the new mold" ala the google style home page.

What gets me about Teoma and Wisenut, is value proposition what is it? For the consumer? I've got google, what else am I missing?

If the "new kid on the block" can't get past my google fixation, I'm not buying it. And I don't see how they do...or am I missing something?

[littleman]

First things first. Where is the "add url" form?

[Brett_Tabke]

>I've got google, what else am I missing?

There are many who have serious usability problems with Google. Given a respectable alternative, I'd use it in a flash.

I still use Alta alot just because it has more usable results. The text engine/old Raging is better than Google for me.