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The Top-10 Alternatives to "I googled it" (note the lower-case 'g'):

• 10 "I AltaVista'd it" (potential ad campaign: "Hasta la vista, Google!")
• 9 "I Yahoo!'d it" (Good luck with that lawsuit; it's been in the official motto of several states for decades!)
• 8 "I Asked it" (AKA "I just axed it", since they "axed" poor Jeeves...)
• 7 "I HotBot'd it" (She's not all that hot these days...)
• 6 "I WebCrawler'd it" (Crawl being the operative word; no speed records broken here!)
• 5 "I Accoona'd it" (Possibly illegal to admit in several states)
• 4 "I Lycos'd it" (Not to be confused with "I Pecos'd it" from the 1950's...)
• 3 "I Netscaped it" (That's netscaped not netscraped)
• 2 "I AOL'd it" (Roughly analogous to "I screwed it up")

• 1 "I Dogpile'd it" (Imagine Cartman in the "red rocket" scene...)

correct link
http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_rel ease_2005_03_29_001.jsp
For some reason, you have to copy and paste it into your browser:
Top 25 Search Results from Winter 2005 Reveal What Chinese Internet Users Are Searching For New York, NY March 29, 2005 A recent study and whitepaper by Accoona Corporation (http://www.accoona.com/ an industry leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) search technology and one of the most prominent search engines in China, reveals that while geographical and cultural issues are still a major focus, Chinese Internet users are becoming more business and technology focused in terms of the information they seek online. With more than 94 million users online, China is the second largest online population after the United States. The Accoona study looked at the Top 25 non-adult search queries on http://www.accoona.cn/ and the Accoona Search Bar on http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ throughout January and February 2005. The three most popular searches in China during this period were for the nation's lunar year celebration known as the "Spring Festival" (19%), followed by "Tsunami" (12%) and "Car" (8%). Among the leading geography-related searches were for China, India, Shanghai and CEPA, a Hong Kong business pact. Some of the most popular technology searches were Chinese instant messaging software, the MF RC531 wi-fi chip specification, Mongolian software and laptop motherboards. The most sought after consumer searches were cars and car stereos. Searches regarding the nation's elderly and education each made up 2% of the Top 25. Additional insight and analysis can be found in an Accoona whitepaper published today at http://www.accoona.com/whitepaper20050329.pdf. "As the consumer class in China continues to develop and economic markets continue to slowly open, the focus of the world's second largest Internet population has shifted more towards business information. In contrast, the top searches in the US are skewed towards celebrities and current events", said Stuart Kauder, CEO at Accoona Corporation. "As one of the most prominent search engines in China, Accoona is able to give the rest of the world deeper insights into what the fastest growing Internet population is looking for online". Accoona enjoys a 20-year exclusive agreement with China Daily Information Company and is the official search partner for its China Daily news portal -- the first news site in China and one of the country's largest portals. Accoona's flagship offering, Accoona.com, is complemented by the Accoona QuickProfile(TM) database -- the world's largest database of free online business information, with up-to-date records on millions of companies around the globe. The QuickProfile database contains one of the most extensive listing of Chinese businesses available online, making it a powerful tool for US-based companies wishing to find information about Chinese businesses. The following is a list of the Top 25 non-adult search queries on Accoona.cn during the January/February 2005 time period: * Spring Festival - 19% * Tsunami - 12% * Car - 8% * China - 6% * Chinese IM software - 4% * CEPA - 3% * Plastic flowerpot manufacturer - 3% * Copper - 3% * Mifare mf rc-531 - 3% * Textile printing ink - 3% * Car audio - 3% * Education - 3% * AL Corp Musical Instruments - 3% * Accoona - 3% * Chinese Railways - 3% * Thermo - 2% * Mongolian Software - 2% * Shanghai - 2% * Elderly in China - 2% * Insurance - 2% * Emigration - 2% * India - 2% * Lantern Festival - 2% * Laptop motherboard - 2% About Accoona Founded in February 2004, the Accoona Corporation is an industry pioneer in Artificial Intelligence search technology, and has filed a patent with over 650 claims. The company unveiled the Accoona search engine in Decembe

correct link
http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_rel ease_2005_03_29_001.jsp
For some reason, you have to copy and paste it into your browser:
Top 25 Search Results from Winter 2005 Reveal What Chinese Internet Users Are Searching For New York, NY March 29, 2005 A recent study and whitepaper by Accoona Corporation (http://www.accoona.com/ an industry leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) search technology and one of the most prominent search engines in China, reveals that while geographical and cultural issues are still a major focus, Chinese Internet users are becoming more business and technology focused in terms of the information they seek online. With more than 94 million users online, China is the second largest online population after the United States. The Accoona study looked at the Top 25 non-adult search queries on http://www.accoona.cn/ and the Accoona Search Bar on http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ throughout January and February 2005. The three most popular searches in China during this period were for the nation's lunar year celebration known as the "Spring Festival" (19%), followed by "Tsunami" (12%) and "Car" (8%). Among the leading geography-related searches were for China, India, Shanghai and CEPA, a Hong Kong business pact. Some of the most popular technology searches were Chinese instant messaging software, the MF RC531 wi-fi chip specification, Mongolian software and laptop motherboards. The most sought after consumer searches were cars and car stereos. Searches regarding the nation's elderly and education each made up 2% of the Top 25. Additional insight and analysis can be found in an Accoona whitepaper published today at http://www.accoona.com/whitepaper20050329.pdf. "As the consumer class in China continues to develop and economic markets continue to slowly open, the focus of the world's second largest Internet population has shifted more towards business information. In contrast, the top searches in the US are skewed towards celebrities and current events", said Stuart Kauder, CEO at Accoona Corporation. "As one of the most prominent search engines in China, Accoona is able to give the rest of the world deeper insights into what the fastest growing Internet population is looking for online". Accoona enjoys a 20-year exclusive agreement with China Daily Information Company and is the official search partner for its China Daily news portal -- the first news site in China and one of the country's largest portals. Accoona's flagship offering, Accoona.com, is complemented by the Accoona QuickProfile(TM) database -- the world's largest database of free online business information, with up-to-date records on millions of companies around the globe. The QuickProfile database contains one of the most extensive listing of Chinese businesses available online, making it a powerful tool for US-based companies wishing to find information about Chinese businesses. The following is a list of the Top 25 non-adult search queries on Accoona.cn during the January/February 2005 time period: * Spring Festival - 19% * Tsunami - 12% * Car - 8% * China - 6% * Chinese IM software - 4% * CEPA - 3% * Plastic flowerpot manufacturer - 3% * Copper - 3% * Mifare mf rc-531 - 3% * Textile printing ink - 3% * Car audio - 3% * Education - 3% * AL Corp Musical Instruments - 3% * Accoona - 3% * Chinese Railways - 3% * Thermo - 2% * Mongolian Software - 2% * Shanghai - 2% * Elderly in China - 2% * Insurance - 2% * Emigration - 2% * India - 2% * Lantern Festival - 2% * Laptop motherboard - 2% About Accoona Founded in February 2004, the Accoona Corporation is an industry pioneer in Artificial Intelligence search technology, and has filed a patent with over 650 claims. The company unveiled the Accoona search engine in Decembe

As long as they don't shut down the plastic flower pot manufacturer's sites... But who knew that the 7th most popular non adult web search in China is Plastic flowerpot manufacturer... http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_release_2 [accoona.com] 005_03_29_001.jsp Yes, it ranks above emmigration!!!!

"Not surprising as "emmigration" isn't a word. How does it rank compared to immigration?

As long as they don't shut down the plastic flower pot manufacturer's sites... But who knew that the 7th most popular non adult web search in China is Plastic flowerpot manufacturer... http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_release_2 [accoona.com] 005_03_29_001.jsp Yes, it ranks above emmigration!!!!

"Not surprising as "emmigration" isn't a word. How does it rank compared to immigration?

As long as they don't shut down the plastic flower pot manufacturer's sites...
But who knew that the 7th most popular non adult web search in China is Plastic flowerpot manufacturer...
http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_release_2 005_03_29_001.jsp
Yes, it ranks above emmigration!!!!

More proof that all this talk of web-2 is utter bullshit because the majority of web developers can't even do web-1 right!

But who knew that the 7th most popular non adult web search in China is
Plastic flowerpot manufacturer...
http://www.accoona.com/about/press/press_release_2 005_03_29_001.jsp
So easy-
1 make plastic flowerpots
2 Set up Chinese Language e commerce website
3 Profit

The imitation is only skin deep. The innovation is in the code that performs the search, not the HTML that presents it to the user.
The about page gives more detail :
http://accoona.com/about/about_accoona.jsp
If You want innovation in web page design, a search engine is probably the wrong place to look. They will be far more inclined to go with a familiar, functional, design...
Besides, with a search engine, it is what is behind in, the search itself, not the HTML, that counts.

Couldn't find squish, my little web game, even given the hint that it was on ptth. Google finds 4 pages of relevant hits.
http://ptth.net/squish/

http://accoona.com/search.jsp?qt=squish+ptth&col=w c&charset=utf-8&la=en

http://www.google.com/search?q=squish+ptth&start=0 &ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozill a:en-US:official

Yea, but Google doesn't have AI.
One day Accoona might wake up

Okay, enough with the jokes.
Was it just me, or are all the links through Overture?
http://accoona.com/search.jsp?qt=skynet

I searched for the projects, by name. Plucker for example..

Now try the same search in Accoona. I went well into the 4th and 5th page of results and STILL didn't find a link to the actual project page itself. In fact, there are 30,241 results returned, but I went onto the 14th page just now, and STILL not a single link to the project page.

AI or not, it isn't returning results for what I'm searching for.

Never heard of this search before, but it's gotta be awesome: my site came up first when I search for 'BTEG'.

Take THAT Black Training and Enterprise Group!

Helps if you spell it right: Tiananmen

Actually, the results you get searching for "Tianamen" are pretty similar to what you get from Google. Then again, if you wanted to get the full story, you might be inclined to spell Tiananmen correctly.

That being said, I won't be using Accoona. I don't like it, for one thing, and I also don't want my search to be influenced too much by the Chinese government if I can help it. I don't mind so much about Bill Clinton being their spokesman, though any time Clinton and the Chinese are working together, you'd better be careful.

"Bill Clinton helped launch the company behind the engine, which is also backed by the Chinese Government. "

that pretty much eliminates it from my book. As bad as google is, i don't my search engine directly controlled by the Chinese Communist party AND Bill Clinton. I imagine searching for Tianamen wont get you much compared to Google since it never happened...

Just repeated the test I did when the Accoona search engine came out in 2004-12: a search on the name "Bill Clinton":

The top result on MSN search is from a .biz domain called The Nostradamus Mabus Project: In Search of the Anti-Christ. Anti-trust jokes aside, this is a crazy result, and makes anyone looking for serious information reach for the page down key immediately.

In contrast, the top result on Google is Bill Clinton's official White House biography.

If you really want to use popups then do them like this. Popup windows are never the right tool. They are annoying and unnecessary

Oddly enough, the search engine that was recently endorsed by Bill Clinton, Accoona.com, makes no mention of the game, while Google pulls a ton of sites right up.

Here are the Accoona results for "Soccer Manager 2005". It seems like a very generic name, so I don't know if it's the same as "Worldwide Soccer Manager". Xinhua is running an article with screenshots. It's quite likely this might be the title by Sports Interactive (or a bootleg of it), but unfortunately you need to be a member of their forums before you can search any information on their message board.

I tried to find more information on this game, but didn't have much luck. I guess it doesn't really exist.

OpenOffice.org has been translated to Swahili

Search for Democrary: Acooona vs Google

Here is its SUPERB! Search for 'GOOGLE', vewy vewy fast!
Unsurpisingly, the first result is in what, French? The rest appear as boxes to me. How do I change the language again? Oh wait, I can't.

sounds easy enough yes?
Well.

Not only is google the more accurate at what i wanted, it also returns the most results, and faster. I dont know about any of you guys but im hardly impressed with accoona

The first non-sponsored result to come up with a search for "George W Bush" is a giant picture of a mushroom cloud. Interesting. The second hit is for a set of playing cards mocking the president. And the fourth is for "Bush Country Ketchup: The Official Ketchup of Right-Leaning Americans." Dick Cheney does little better.

That's nothing, check this out...

Google search for "China censorhip" and then compare that to the number of results of an Accoona search for "China censorhip"

You all know what happened with "litigious bastards".

Lets make sure the Expurgating bastards get the message.

That's nothing, check this out...

Google search for "China censorhip" and then compare that to the number of results of an Accoona search for "China censorhip"

You all know what happened with "litigious bastards".

Lets make sure the Expurgating bastards get the message.

My personal favorite was searching for china is evil

First link: UN is Evil

Here's what it returned as the page description:

Accoona World Women's Chess Championship Series Accoona French-American Women's Chess ... States is presented with the ... Accoona Championship Trophy by Accoona Corp. Executive Director Jonathan McCann ...

The above text doesn't appear on the Accoona page and doesn't give any hint you're about to land on a search engine page.

Looks like Google has fresher data. All The Web does a bit better job too.

It seems to be a rather poorly implemented frontend for overture. Many of the links are overture links (they try to hide the fact by disabling the status line over those particular links). Also quite interesting is a search for google

Search results for "china human rights violation"
Using Accoona and Google

Slightly different wouldn't you say ?

#1 is called "scored OR" and has been around since the 1960s. In fact, every major web search engine used to use this approach until the web got really big.

#2 is called term weighting, and has also been around since the 1960s. These days it's generally not exposed to users, but most search engines have this capability under the hood.

#3 is found in any metasearch engine.

So how is this AI, exactly?

• Search for "taiwan independence" on accoona.com
• Search for "taiwan independence" on google.com

Also, notice the results when searching both for Slashdot.

First, the challenger:

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Slashdot

Next, reigning champion:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&q=Slashdot.

On a side note, Accoona shows http://www.mirrordot.org/ which claims to mirror sites when the slash effect takes hold.

What happens when mirrordot gets slashdotted? Does it mirror itself? Does it then mirror itself mirrorring itself?

Does it mirror itself mirrorring itself mirrorring itself?

Someone mod this up, let's all hit it and see if their servers get pwned.

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Google+Search+Engine

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Accoona+S earch+Engine

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Goatse

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=goats e

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=tubgirl

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tubgi rl

The links for goatse and tubgirl are just search engine results NOT the actual links.

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Google+Search+Engine

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Accoona+S earch+Engine

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Goatse

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=goats e

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=tubgirl

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tubgi rl

The links for goatse and tubgirl are just search engine results NOT the actual links.

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Google+Search+Engine

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Accoona+S earch+Engine

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Goatse

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=goats e

http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=tubgirl

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tubgi rl

The links for goatse and tubgirl are just search engine results NOT the actual links.

Spot on.

Searching for the tools of democracy yields similarly dissappointing results

Roberts Rules of Order on Google:

Gives a list of websites that explain and inform about Robert's Rules of Order, the basis of western parlimentary procedure.

Roberts Rules of Order on Accoona:

Links on were to buy a book about Robert's rules, than a bunch of links for un-related things like "Julia Roberts" and "Norah Roberts".

Consumerism over substance, looks like to me.

The company seeks to distinguish itself from Google, Yahoo Inc. and growing list of other search engine players by using artificial intelligence to make the results more relevant, said Pfeiffer.

There's some humor in this statement in that Accoona seems to be using Overture for at least its sponsored results. One example. But then, most modern "competitors" of Google and Yahoo seem to fall back on the technology of one or the other to some degree.

Actually, they describe it as being better than google because of the SuperTarget feature. This appears to be roughly the same as putting a "+" in front of a search term in your Google search, but Accoona has a GUI for it.

Google: china government oppression

Accoona: china government oppression

hmm.... One result on the main page even mentioning Chinese government oppression in the results. I'll stick to google, thanks.

Here are the first four Accoona searches I did:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM (this is a very popular bay area-centric motorcycle forum that I regularly visit)

Compare and contrast this with the results I received from Google:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM

Very, very different. After searching with these very common, popular queries, I've come to the conclusion that this new Accoona search engine isn't worth it's weight in salt. Really, it's a great testimony to how good Google really is.

Of lesser importance, the time it takes to obtain said search results is significantly longer than for Google.

Here are the first four Accoona searches I did:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM (this is a very popular bay area-centric motorcycle forum that I regularly visit)

Compare and contrast this with the results I received from Google:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM

Very, very different. After searching with these very common, popular queries, I've come to the conclusion that this new Accoona search engine isn't worth it's weight in salt. Really, it's a great testimony to how good Google really is.

Of lesser importance, the time it takes to obtain said search results is significantly longer than for Google.

Here are the first four Accoona searches I did:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM (this is a very popular bay area-centric motorcycle forum that I regularly visit)

Compare and contrast this with the results I received from Google:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM

Very, very different. After searching with these very common, popular queries, I've come to the conclusion that this new Accoona search engine isn't worth it's weight in salt. Really, it's a great testimony to how good Google really is.

Of lesser importance, the time it takes to obtain said search results is significantly longer than for Google.

Here are the first four Accoona searches I did:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM (this is a very popular bay area-centric motorcycle forum that I regularly visit)

Compare and contrast this with the results I received from Google:

MSN

SLATE

AOL

BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM

Very, very different. After searching with these very common, popular queries, I've come to the conclusion that this new Accoona search engine isn't worth it's weight in salt. Really, it's a great testimony to how good Google really is.

Of lesser importance, the time it takes to obtain said search results is significantly longer than for Google.

I can't say I'm impressed with this search engine offering. I tried the most obvious query I could think of, bill clinton, which yielded a bizarre novelty site as the first result.

A Google search on the same keywords yields Bill Clinton's official White House biography.

I'll be waiting for Accoona 2.0.

Google: china government oppression

Accoona: china government oppression

or the two engines just have different methods of indexing? Try googling zelda and then acconaing zelda. They have a very different result set.

English Search Results (Scroll down to "ACCOONA RESULTS")

Chinese Search Results

First search result on the english page is titled "Fifteenth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre." That page doesn't even show up at all in the results on the chinese-language version.