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

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?

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

Um, ask slashdot?

[JohnTheFisherman]

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

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.