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

But are the search engines independent?

[Oestergaard]

Would any of the new search engines be controlled by a different government ?

Since the search-engines are becoming our pointers to information, they do have a lot of control over what information we see. I doesn't matter that some web-server in malaysia has a web page describing the complete meaning of life, the universe and everything, if it's not in the search engines.

If all search engines are controlled by the same government (and yes oh yes, they are controlled) the web suddenly becomes biased.

Try searching for "marlboro" on google. What would you expect ? The marlboro home-page ? Oh, no; we have the Marlboro College, poems, but no tobacco company home page. Coincidence? Well, a search for IRIX gives me the SGI home page, so I think the search engine works as designed - what do you think?

Lasoo

[PD]

Seems to suck way more than the other engines. If you click on North America, it drops you into some random location that you can't click out of. So, I typed in my city name and clicked exactly on my house. The zoomed in map that came up was about 25 miles off target.