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Ixquick - looks like pre-Mayday Google

         

scottsonline

1:42 am on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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It's interesting to me that whatever change occured over the last two weeks a pronounced spike in yahoo/bing traffic is the result. At the same time I'm seeing more and more searches from Ixquick.com which ironically looks like google premayday in terms of results.

It will be interesting to see if the rest of your/our niches see a similar bump ad the changes roll through. For the first time I AM seeing a significant shift away from google in the last ten days. With mayday there was a shift that didn't last. Will this one stick and are the new results pushing users away?

My thought is yes, we will see a shift this time.

I think if we get away from all the click/instant goofy counting we are going to see a proportional shift away from google if nothing changes and they continue to jam changes that reduce user choice.

Do some searches on ix, at least for products it's cleaner than google, no duplication, no spam.

networkliquidators

4:00 pm on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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If only our network admin audience used other methods than Google. I actually rank very well for my top 100 terms on ixquick.com.

scottsonline

7:12 pm on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Ixquick seems to not have the same filters as google. Really I'm not sure by when i search for something on Ixquick I'm probably going to find it. With google I'm being given non exact matches because that's what they think I need.

Head to head I'd bet they do fairly well

TamanRoyal

8:16 pm on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Thanks...
I am falling in love at the first sight.

tedster

8:31 pm on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Meta search engines like IXquick are a solid resource. Of course, they do depend on the core search engines to do a lot of the heavy lifting.

dstiles

8:46 pm on Oct 26, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Ixquick (aka StartPage) is a meta engine - it gets its results from up to ten other engines (nothing is native to ixquick - it does not send round a bot). "Up to" because you can turn off engines you don't want to report. Since Bing and Yahoo are both included, any major change in Bing MAY result in bing-like (ie sometimes Google-like) results.

Things that worry me about Ixquick: it includes...

a) wikipedia (questionable results at times);
b) open directory (haven't been able to submit a new site to them for years!);
c) qkport (my server does not currently accept bots from this service - can't work out which bot IPs);
d) statesman - this is new; I know nothing about it as yet and am not confident I've found the SE;
e) yebol - currently blocked on my server but due for reappraisal, although I don't like its SERPS.

On the other hand, this is my primary (almost only) search engine and gives good results. I seldom use google except for SEO.