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Comparison Of Google to Teoma

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the compare-and-contrast dept.

randomErr writes "SearchEngineWatch.com was compared the good and the bad of both engine. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories."

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  1. google searches lately by ozmodier · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Has Google changed something lately? My search returns have been getting worse and worse over the past few months.

    1. Re:google searches lately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Mine too. I reckon the spammers have begun cracking the relevancy algorithm. Look what happens when you google"search engine ranking optimization." The first link (after the paid placements and to the right of the text ads) tells the story.

  2. Submission by fuerstma · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google - easy to submit to.
    Temoa - PITA to submit to.

    Google wins.

    (not to mention the other goodies, such as Google owning Deja. All of a sudden I'm pitchin a tent in my roos)

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  3. Self-serving results by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Teoma's results for "Google sucks" and "Teoma Sucks" Google's results:Notice, too, that Teoma is an ASP=based system. *PeeYew!*
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  4. its more of a CITH submission method by sh0rtie · · Score: 4, Interesting



    Teuma is not so much PITA (pain in the ass) to submit to
    but more of a CITH (cash in the hand) method of inclusion, meaning no cash = no listing

    basically charging people to fill Teuma's database for them,
    not a lot of difference from those awful search sites you find , you know ,when you happen to mispell a well known url and find yourself at a domain squatters site with popups and a search engine with "finance" and "loans" the most prominent links (as they are the most desperate they tend to pay the most) and when looking at the submission process it directs you offsite to a paypal https:// payment method paying some holdings company $29.99 in Guyana

    Teuma is doomed for failure as soon as the cash runs out, and seeing that its a joint venture of ask.com (who no-one uses willingly) and themselves , it just seems a re-branding exercise for ask.com and a chance to promote their lame marketing tactics

  5. Google sucks lately by nebbian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know why, but just lately (in the past month or so), Google has gone completely nuts and won't show pages that it used to show. For example, my father has a site that's all about little historic stone statues, and you used to be able to do a search for "Venus Figures" on google and get his site. No longer! Even a search for the title of his site doesn't return his site. Even a search for the URL doesn't return his site anymore! It returns some pages with links to his site, but not his site! For my money, the balance of power of the web search engines is shifting. I now use teoma and www.alltheweb.com when I want to do a search, and then try google. If we can make a decent operating system, web server, proxy, etc open source, why can't we make a decent open source search engine? Surely the geekier members amongst us can figure something out... Ben

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