Comparison Of Google to Teoma

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Comparison Of Google to Teoma

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 25, 2002 @11:57AM 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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Submission by fuerstma · 2002-06-25 12:21 · 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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Self-serving results by rjamestaylor · 2002-06-25 12:31 · Score: 5, Interesting
Teoma's results for "Google sucks" and "Teoma Sucks"
- "Teoma Sucks" returns "We found no matches for your search "teoma sucks""
  "Google sucks" returns 15 matches.
Google's results:
- "Google Sucks" on Google returns a boat-load.
  "Teoma Sucks" A few results--obviously, not a popular topic
  Teoma Sucks on Google returns a lot, too.
Notice, too, that Teoma is an ASP=based system. *PeeYew!*
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its more of a CITH submission method by sh0rtie · 2002-06-25 13:27 · 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