Ever since the great success of Google on the stock market we’ve seen a slew of new search engines hit the scene. While there are a couple of sites that review search engines, nothing is better than group reviewing. I’d like my readers to check out some of these search engines over the next few weeks and report back on their experiences. The best engines will be incorporated into the Personal Portal. Also if you are tiring of any of the Personal Portal engines already listed, let me know.
Here are the new ones I’m looking at
COMET
ACOONA
RED-ZIP
Ezanga (consolidation engine)
UpSpiral
Already don’t like Red Zip
Alot of “coming soon” pages linking to its homepage and annoying ads like “Warning! Spyware Notice…your PC has been infected…”
http://www.redzip.com/site/redzip/html/maps.html
They are Yahoo/Google clones, and fill a hole that isn’t there, IMO.
I have a pharse or two I use to test search engines based on my knowledge of Web resources in a specialty field. Here’s my results: Ezanga didn’t work at all for me (maybe my pop-up blocker killed it). All the others started with a large number of sponsored links. Red Zip was the worst with two pages of sponsored links before getting to anything useful. Google is far superior to any of these.
A Google search returned results that had nothing to do with the current search but had commercial links obviously influenced by unrelated searchs run earlier. Is my search histroy setting me up for Google’s advertisers? Is this SOP wih all?
Im gonna stick with the well known ones for my real search needs, my business counts on it for research!
Accoona just uses Overture (owned by Yahoo, also owns AltaVista.com and AllTheWeb.com, which were acquired through the Overture.com AKA Go-To.com purchase last year). Many search engines are just “free loading” off of other engines…
Hey John,
Given the controversy of Google censoring it’s responses in it’s Chinese version, and the fact that there’s no way to know if they are doing the same here, i think it’s time to revisit this issue. Have we, the informed users of the internet, allowed Google to become a monopoly of information which they are now abusing? What alternative to Google is there since most other search engines are really just using the results from Google and repackaging them?
Be well.
wrt to these engines leveraging existing engines ….
I’m after a completely ‘Google/AltaVista/Yahoo’ free, uncensored search engine which is especially suited to technical searches. Does such a thing exist?
There seems to be a trend evolving in my searching via Google that any link that is most likely to have the answer I’m looking for is listed, but unavailable?!? Have these sites been raided, shutdown or blocked by government agencies / google? Are they poorly administered and thus unavailable; Or am I just unlucky?
-q
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so it is really so difficult to find another search engine that no one has come up with anything???