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I know that there are tons of search engines out there, though many people here prefer Google (people like me! hehe). Anyway, I was reading some articles and found this . It's about a new San Francisco-based search engine which is trying to beat out Google's indexing service. The search engine is www.alltheweb.com and it seems to work fairly well if you ask me.
AJ
PS: I searched the forums and didn't find this anywhere, but if it is, let me know and I'll take it down.
I've used alltheweb and being that it is new, it didnt help me very much. Their are many companies that try to beat out yahoo and google but the key to it is advertising, time, and loads of workers. Companies like yahoo make loads of money and can afford loads of workers to help put in websites and/or take orders from clients wishing for their site to be in their directory.
as a wise man once said,
if its not broken, dont try to fix it!
lol, which wise man was this Netsyn? lol, I PMed you too. Please respond!
Yeah, alltheweb and google and pretty good. Alltheweb says it is better than google. Supposedly, alltheweb has 2.1 billion indexed paged and google has 2.4 billion indexed pages. Still, google has all that other labs stuff and lang tools. Google is still better.
Sorry for digressing like this...
Komal > check your PMs. I sent you a message earlier I think you should read.
AJ
Another wise man once said.
"Build a better google and the world will beat a path to your door"
I think that google is still going to the the power house of search engines...If yahoo is hosted by google and yahoo was #1...well that should say something about the power that google has.Plus after 9/11 google took over cnn.com because it could not deal with the traffic.
Google will always dominate. They're just too established AND too good. :)
Google was the original. Nothing compared to it when it came out, and nothing compares to it now.
well actually yahoo only uses google's directory, which makes yahoo limited..Quote:
But google is definately the best, and to be able to beat it you would have to first catalouge all of google, and build a smarter spider that google's. Google's spider is currently the best one out there, though, and its ONLY small limitation is that it is kind of slow because of how it can capture every link possible on a site.. but that is a small sacrifice to make for how well the spider runs..
Also, google's caching is superior, because it is updated often and even if a site is down when google attempts to cache it, if the host is not responding, google will put that into a database that it tries over and over again, slowly reducing the number of times it tries the page.
And, of course, google's toolbar. Gotta love it. How it remembers all your searches, even if you did them from a site, the whole website search that often out-performs a search tool implemented on the target site, being able to easily view the cache, simialr, back links and translation, and of course the highlighting. Can't forget the highlighting. Click on a site from google but the page is too cluttered to find what your looking for? Highlighter. Or of course it could be used in many other senarios when you need to easily find a word or words on a page.. much better that using ie's find feature...
Tell you what, I like all the web, but google has got 'em whooped. Now why you may ask? Well, IMHO it has to have been the acquisition of Deja.com that did it for them. That's right, groups.google.com paired with the main site beats out all the others. Again, only opinion, but it just makes sense.
I love google, :)
www.moms.com hs a nice selection of search engines to choose from. www.dogpile.com is a metaengine, a search engine that searches search engines. www.metacrawler.com has a nice one, I like it beter then dogpile. and last but not least, from time to time I still use www.yahoo.com because it has a nice directory listing, simular to google's directory listing, called a subject tree. http://blacksun.box.sk has a nice tutorial in the tutorial section titled Search Engines Riped apart. As well if you visit the advanced tips/help section on the google web site you will find lots of nice tips and tricks.
anyone ever use hotbot.com? I used to think it was the best before I tried Google... since google loads faster I use it but I havent tried a comparison. Anyone know how it compares?
i will never switch from google and murphy once said "if it jams..force it..and if it breaks.. it needed replacing anyways." heh good stuff
it seems alltheweb used web bugs to generate income. although their are none on the main page, i did a test search, just to see how good they were, , and there were 2 bugs on the second page and one was from double-click.
IMO if this is the direction they are going to take, anything for a buck, Fµ¢K TH€M!
BTW there are none on google!
As chefer pointed out, I personally like Google for little-known features. I personally love the new news search (news.google.com) and use it all the time to get more information on articles I read online from my local paper.
AJ
GOOGLE RULES!
A replacement for Google? Bwaaahahahaaaa
i used excite mostly up until the downfall....
google was always second for me then moved up to first.
i had, for a while, some nice java script search engine that used about 10-12 different searc engines and spat the results out in easy to read format.... lets see where was that...,
search2
or maybe....
SearchApp
Okay... AllTheWeb started their own hype, and for some reason it is working for them. I think I will be standing by google, it has always been a one stop source for everything I am looking for. However, I'm not saying one aspect of AllTheWeb is not better than google, and for some people that one aspect is the most important, and it will draw those individuals in. What I am saying is that AllTheWeb has started their own hype, and that is a tad bit ridiculous.
replace google
I have only one thing to say to that.....
pfffffffffffffffffft
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