Searching For Google's Successor

weink writes "A new generation of scrappy search engines is emerging to challenge the dominance of mighty Google . An article at Wired News lists up-and-coming search engines, WiseNut , Teoma , Lasoo , CURE , and Vivisimo . Take a look, and give them a try. But I still say that nothing is better then the almighty Google ."

Comments

Not PC

[pogofish]

"Search Engine" is no longer politically correct. We prefer "Exploratory Native American."

Re:At least "google" is spelled correctly.

[Nick Number]

The first time someone told me about the great new web search "google" I immediately went to my computer, and spelled it correctly, or incorrectly, depending on how you look at it. Because www.googol.com is completely different from www.google.com

At least you didn't sit there and type in the hundred zeroes.

I would do it, but the lameness filter doesn't like it.

Re:Hmm..

[Erasmus Darwin]

A similar problem I've found is that when I'm searching on using 'foo' and 'bar' together (for example, if they're two popular options in a software package), I'll tend to get a lot of hits from mailing list indexes. The page'll generally contain a link to a message about 'foo' and a separate link to a message about 'bar', and will be highly rated from all the other things linking to the index.

Easiest was to find the best search engine

[zombieking]

Just ask jeeves... Duh.

Re:One of the great features of Google

[Tackhead]

>http://images.google.com/images?q=natalie+portman

It's a good start, but since we still don't get any hits for...

http://images.google.com/images?q=natalie+portman+ grits

...I gotta wonder, like, what's the point?

I'm feeling lucky

[GregGardner]

And don't forget the infamous "I'm feeling lucky" button. All the fun and odds of a Vegas slot machine without the cost.

Re:Lasoo

[WeirdKid]

I didn't have this problem. Maybe you clicked twice?

I haven't compared it to google yet, but I'd say Lasoo has its place in my utility belt. After typing in my address, I was able to click on "Bars" and now I know exactly how far my house is from each of the nearest local pubs! The distances are in meters, so I'll have to only drink imported beer and crawl metrically -- which kind of makes sense since I won't be on my feet anyway.

Google's sense of humor

[Alex Kalita]

If you get bored, check out some of the languages you can select on Google's preferences page.

31337 H4x0r g00g13
Google in the language of "Bork, bork bork!"
Igpay Atinlay Ooglegay

Re:Google's sense of humor

[honkycat]

I think the best part is that, thanks to my company's caching proxy, the next person to use google after me inherits my language setting unless they do an explicit page refresh... so people get pig latin and don't know why!

Um, ask slashdot?

[JohnTheFisherman]

Most people don't use Google anyways, they just go straight to Ask Slashdot. :(

no successor yet

[embobo]

No viable successor yet.

Search Engines We'd Like to See:

[Bonker]

SpammerQuery - The home addresses and personal phone numbers of spammers.

EinsteinExpress - When you absolutely, positively have to have next month's kernal patch yesterday...

SlashBot - The home addresses and personal phone numbers of FP'ers and goatse.cx linkers.

BootyCall - All porn all the ti... wait a second. We've got images.google.com for that! Sorry, my bad.

God?

[unixdown]

The only god I can find is GOOGLE. Who else will actually answer your prayers?

I remember...

[J.C.B.]

...when the library card catalog was the shiznit! Those were the days! You could actually find a desk to work at, because they weren't all filled with those pesky computers.