Ansearch starting in November

Anyone knows this one?

[anallawalla]

Australia's newest Search Engine is Launching in November 2004.

[ansearch.com.au...]

They seem to have acquired MySearch.com.au but I don't remember that one. Where is the data coming from?

[Woz]

Hmmm, new to me Ash. I had a look at mySearch.com.au and I must say I am none too impressed. From the site, "MySearch.com.au operates as a test bed for new and revolutionary search engine and web-marketing technologies." Really?! Then why do all directory categories have the same listings, and they seem to be all Dmoz?

Having said that, Australia needs more search venues so I hope they can get this one together. They seem to be based in Melbourne, I might give them a hoi.

ONya
Woz

[Chris_D]

Hi Ash & Woz,

I had a quick look at these guys late last week - the results looked surprisingly like 'Yahoo minus Overture' - maybe their serps are actually based on whatever the 'OEM version' of Inktomi is called these days.

Compare your favourite search to the same search in Yahoo and see if there is more than just a passing coincidence...

[anallawalla]

PDF press release link below:

[aapmedianet.com.au...]

28 October 2004: MySearch.com.au, the test site for Melbourne search engine company, Ansearch, has broken into the Hitwise* top 20 rankings of Australian search engines and directories. For the week ending Saturday 23 October 2004, MySearch was Australia's nineteenth most popular search engine and directory... etc

Seems that WW members helped to get it into this commanding position! ;)

[Chris_D]

Ok - 19th.

Trouble is, I'm finding it hard to think of 18 other search engines operating in Australia? Anyone have the list?

Lets see - Google, Yahoo, Ninemsn..... then a big gap back to (in no particular order) ..... Altavista, Anzwers, sensis, webwombat, Mooter, websearch.com.au...

and some pseudo portals aol.com.au, optus.com.au

So who are the rest?

[merlin78]

I don't think Yahoo would appreciate this tactic:
[yahooo.com.au...]

[bill]

Found this article today:
[itworld.com...]

Ansearch will differentiate itself in several ways. Some of Ansearch's unique features include:

• Quality of data: focus on a relatively small list of the most popular websites in the world rather than those with the most number of websites linking to them
  
• Ranking: based on usage rather than link farm size.
  
• Focus on a site versus pages: IE's Geocities will feature in its database only once, rather than the extensive network of millions of free pages / Web sites that are found within Google. This will result in a natural tendency to feature more business/commerce sites.
  
• Top sites index: a listing of top Web sites updated and ranked regularly.
  
• Small data footprint: allows for a daily update of the top-ranked Web sites, as opposed to updates every six weeks.

It looks like we get to find out tomorrow...

[bill]

Well, it's open now. The SERPs look almost identical to what has been on MySearch.com.au for a few searches I was trying out. I'm not too impressed with their web results. They have this weird way of tacking on www. to the beginning of every URI. I have several sites which redirect to the non-www version of the URI, so that looks odd.

How are the Australia-only SERPs?

[Woz]

Oops - "Can't connect to database".

Another search engine brought to it's knees by WebmasterWorld traffic. ;)

Onya
Woz

[anallawalla]

It's working again. I looked for various trades and professions in my suburb. The results are OK - neither exciting nor terrible. Real estate was pretty good; pizza was terrible - the first pizza shop was at #8.

[penfold25]

Also being from melb, im watching with interest for any new developments, we have some smart cookies here. Mooter, webwombat, looksmart, yahoo, google and the rest, how many more can it sustain you guys think?