Nickname: web 2.0 innovations

Review: Hello guys, As part of the group behind web2innovations.com, a site that tracks all innovations happening within the internet sector, we can tell that many interesting social search engines are rising upon us and one great example seems to be http://NosyJoe.com, although still in private beta...

Date reviewed: Jun 14, 2007 12:22 PM

Nickname: Larry

Review: To suggest that Ask.com will pull market share from Google is unrealistic. I'm a webmaster for a variety of sites. One of the sites I manage is ridethisbike.com. Only 1% of the traffic comes from Ask. 60 to 70% comes from Google and 35% comes from a combo of MSN & Yahoo. Last May when I was launching a new ad campaign, I asked Ask why I should use their product. Given the low amount of traffic from their engine, even with unique content on a focused niche topic (folding bikes), I was skeptical that Ask could deliver significant traffic. Ask.com confirmed that their spider visits Ridethisbike.com and that it would come up for relevant searches; however, 5 months later, the results remain unchanged. Google wins search engine traffic because it's fast, provides relevant search results and has spidered/indexed more webpages than any other search engine. It's only a matter of time before Google implements an effecient & effective method to incorporate social search as well.

Date reviewed: Oct 10, 2006 8:01 PM

Nickname: tollingbell

Review: Google's reason for success is simple and always overlooked. In 2000, when the dot-coms were starting to shrivel and Yahoo, Altavista and everyone else was doing whatever they could to place the biggest banner or pop-up ad smack on a user's desktop, Google proposed a search engine that took milliseconds to load and featured no graphical advertisements whatsoever. Google's popularity is not due to the brilliance of its search algorithm, but because they refused to sell out at a time when everyone else would.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 9:52 PM

Nickname: ck

Review: As a Eurekster user (try at http://www.infofornyc.com), I believe that social search can help refine results especially these days when everyone uses SEO (search engine optimization) to bump up their site in search results. Text search is a good first cut, but additional info from users on whether these are actually useful or whether someone just optimized a worthless site has value. A combined approach is good. I'm looking forward to seeing further improvements with Eurekster's swicki.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 9:27 PM

Nickname: zoom

Review: The next big leap will be in true natural language search engines. One such engine is hakia: http://www.hakia.com

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 8:50 PM

Nickname: Ed Dunn

Review: _Expanding territory. Every new Google service release was already commoditized by other players. Google has not brought anything new. _New formulas. The entire concept of a cute, different formula to compete or innovate is way off base and ignorant. _Topic Communities and Social Search. Both of these ideals are uptopian experiments that have no basis in reality. The only way to compete against Google is to serve the customer better. Neither Ask, MSN or these other comedy acts are doing that.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 4:41 PM

Nickname: Jon Vaughan

Review: You say that Google has 51 percent of searches, but that doesn't mean 51 percent of users. Indeed, and I'm not knocking Google, more searches could mean people are having a harder time finding information with Google.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 3:58 PM

Nickname: Dude

Review: Google is No. 1 and still gaining more lead because they have good programmers. Any monkey can code: Wrong! Google is undisputable proof that programmers do matter, and they matter more than anything else. Look at all the spectacular software Google has produced. You don't get that outsourcing.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 3:48 PM

Nickname: Nguyen Tan

Review: Search is far from perfect. Try searching for "viral marketing" by Google, compare it to search in del.icio.us or YahooMyweb and you will see the power of social search.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 12:58 PM

Nickname: bob

Review: Ask.com sucks. The e-commerce site that I run and has been in existence for three years with approximately 1,000 daily visitors isn't even indexed in their engine. On Google for a few products we come up on the top of the hit list. On Ask.com: a single link to our two-year-old front page. Nothing else can be found. Even broke down and paid a couple hundred bucks for advertising (whatever the heck they're doing) on ask.com, still no results from their search engine. Totally useless.

Date reviewed: Oct 6, 2006 12:17 PM