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New Clustering Search Engine to battle Google
Sophrosyne writes "The New York Times is reporting a new search engine [free if DNA on file with Homeland Security] named "Clusty" is going to try and take Google head-on. The new search engine was developed by three former CMU computer scientists who formed the company Vivisimo. The search engine uses Overture for it's results but offers new features such as an encyclopedia search, clustered results, and a gossip search."
But anyway, this does look interested.
I think there's your first clue for why your story was rejected.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
...but not one that reminds me of "Clippy".
It's rubbish. Just look at the results when searching for "large breasts". Nothing of any interest what-so-ever. Nothing!
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Well, Google has got everyone beat in this regard. "Google" is probably the first thing a baby says (and hence I'm sure it is hardwired into our brains). The only thing that could beat "Google" would be "dada" or "burp". Any takers?
not a very reliable porn search engine.
A search engine that finds pages containing the words you typed which are *least* likely to relate to your actual underlying question. A google of the absurd, as it were.
This could be very, very difficult. How would you implement such a thing, from a technical standpoint?
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
"Ewww, Jimmy's got a clusty in his hair!"
- I refuse to use anything that sounds like children's slang for a bogey or some other lump of offensiveness. Whoever thought that name up needs to be drummed out of marketing forever. The layout of the main page is reminiscent of Ask Jeeves (which is a bad thing, it automatically makes me think 'bad searches') and search pages look cluttered and the vivid background against the soft shades of the foreground looks awful. This 'Clustered Searching' is a good idea, badly executed. Next please.
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
"Yeah, I use that new search engine. Crusty. Er, Colostomy. Er, Callusy, or whatever."
And "Clusty" is not a cute name. It's kind of creepy.
>I think clusty.com is better, but now makes me think of unclean prostitutes.
And Google makes me think of clean prostitutes!
Free iPods? Sure!
Well, I guess that's one way to do it...
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
The problem with a search engine named "dada" is that when you searched for articles on cutlery you'd end up with a picture of a haddock impaled on a pitchfork being held by a naked man wearing fake breasts. Probably not what you were looking for.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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