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The results look very familiar, very clean - looks like a bit of a crossover between the SERPs in Google and Yahoo.
Does anyone know anything about it?
They also get their results from Yahoo, MSN amongst others
Nothing special
What we really need is a search engine with new ranking formulas now that would be a google killer
Its just another standard meta-search engine
I thought of that too, but could not quiet get the dist of which main search engine they were meta-searching, results seemed to be mix of all of them.
I find it pretty amazing how big firms with lots of money like A9 turn to meta searching rather than actually developing their own tech. How can one build unique search engine without having their own data and full control over indexing and ranking? Yahoo and MSN understood it and either bought or developed their own search engines. Others seem to think that meta-serving Google's SERPs will make them unique. Strange world this is :(
the only guy that seems to see the light is gigablast.com
Not the only one ;)
Matt Wells is very successful -- he took his search engine from 200 mln to 2 bln pages in just a year, from what I understand his data and code is used by a number of companies. If this is not success (albeit not on Google's level, but hey it takes time), then I want a share of it, don't you too? :)
Then again when you look at sites such as SNAP.com which is owned by idealad they don't have their own technology ( simply licensing from Gigablast amongst other) yet they have just recently closed a $10 million Round of funding.
Anyone know whether Matt wells is still independently running gigablast? or did he manage to raise some funding
did he manage to raise some funding
He managed much better -- get others to pay him by licensing his code and data.
Idealab funded so many completely failed ventures that anything they give SNAP will appear totally reasonable and sane.
I'm sure he makes a comfortable living but he is obviously not getting much cash because he is still small time when looking around his site.
I think he is doing just fine -- he just does not compete with Google directly with Gigablast per se, that site serves as public demo of his technology, and he makes money by licensing it to others. I think more than 2 well funded startups did that, and the amounts of money sunk into those startups make me think that they had to pay him more then adequate sums for his efforts.
Of course he isn't Google beater, but you need time in this, time and money -- he is getting both now and I bet he will suprise everyone soon.
