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China Launches New Search Engine
stupidfoo writes "With all those nasty pro-democracy websites that Google keeps turning up, what's a communist country supposed to do? Well, create their own search engine of course! According to the AP, 'Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.' Accoona Corp. was one of the Chinese companies that donated an 'undisclosed amount' to the recently opened Clinton Library. Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship, but it also doesn't show how it's anywhere near the level of Google."
Kathy Feaganes Allen is the lady from Florida who ran down a couple of teenagers for letting their golf ball hit her SUV. Compelling story, something that I really want to know about.
No mention of it on Accoona at all, plenty on Google.
'Nuff said.
M
dbarbour.com is my personal website. Google has it ranked on the first page when you query my name, Dustin Barbour. Accoona doesn't even know it exists.
That's all the convincing I need to stay with Google.
What is your penile percentile?
Knee Pads
Intern Job Listings
Porn
Cigars
Directions to the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock
Rose Law Firm Records
Cattle Future Stock Quotes
Invent Sovet Russia jokes, of course.
"All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog." Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Down with China!"
china for teh win
How come Michael Simms didn't kill himself, as promised, after Kerry was defeated? Or maybe he's planning on moving to France.
A simple search for "google", but not one result for the search engine itself. I searched for Slashdot, but also didn't see a slashdot.org result.
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Ground Control to Major Tom...
Why should we listen to a politician with regards to the search engine we use?
Is your terror cell living in terror? Is your safe-house not so safe? If so, read the New York Times, the jihad journal.
Interesting to look for "Tiananmen Square", it doesn't seem to be completely banned. Or maybe the filter only comes into effect if you're behind the Great Firewall of China?
How much of the difference in quality results has to do with the fact that Google has a huge head start in indexing the web? Maybe Acoona's results will improve over time?
Did the Chinese donate as much money to the Clinton Library as the Saudis?
We slashdotted China!
We bastards!
But only an hour later, I was hungry for subversion again.
"Because no REAL intelligence ever came out of the Clinton administration!" (TM)
free tibet still gets plenty of hits....
even falun gong gets plenty of hits back.
Once I get off work im gonna have to anonymous proxy inside china and try it.
It not only dispenses only happy news articles about China, it also makes sure that you only see articles that are appropriate.
If you are found searching for inappropriate terms, you will be visited by a reeducation specialist who will diagnose your condition and recommend appropriate treatment.
This is for your own protection. Only people that are ill would be interested in things that are not good for them. Thus, by tracking people with this illness and fixing them, we are making a better China!
Guess he is just thanking the Chinese for all of those funds he rec'd, democracy be damned.
Que Pasa?
Go China!
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@ewr-web04 and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.accoona.com Port 80
I think this means that it still needs some work.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be
a bucket of silverware being dropped from a second story window
According to a Chinese government spokesperson, "Accoona is a more efficient search engine because while Google uses automated system applications to crawl the Internet and add to their databse, we have assigned 481.2 million Chinese citizens the task of manually surfing the Internet and cataloging every site by hand. They work faster and far cheaper than Google's automated software."
There you have it.
I'm a big tall mofo.
tienanmen square
falun gong
Hmmm......Internal Server Error
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.accoona.com Port 80
What did I get? I got a bunch of ads for game retailers, not reviews or fan sites showing up at the top of the list. It sucks, but what should I have expected from China and Bill Clinton?
Submitting your site for indexing requires you to send them an email with the URL. I'm wary about sending my email address to an unknown chinese company. No thanks.
Also, they have a lot of unnecessary html in their layout. Are they not expecting any traffic?
Standards Schmandards
I hope they call it "Googre"
This is obviously part of China's oppressive "great firewall of China". Its disappointing to see Clinton involved in something like this. While I know he made it a point in his administration to maintain good relations with China, this kind of encouragement of their censorship activities shouldn't happen.
Damn - why's he gotta keep smearing my old '90s rose-coloured-glasses?
Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship, but it also doesn't show how it's anywhere near the level of Google."
That's an easy answer. You're just searching for the wrong things that's all. Try searching for things that matter like counter-strike cafes and dog meat recipes.
This isn't too surprising. Bill Clinton sold China our multi-stage missile technology for satellite launching. China is using this to build ICBMs to target the western United States. (And have since threatened to hit Los Angeles with a nuclear warhead if we ever interfere in regards to our ally Taiwan.) This was after he received numerous under the table donations for his campaign from the Chinese government and financiers. After he sold out our national security to the Chinese for some campaign donations, giving the Chinese a national search engine is no big deal.
Hrmm, doesn't look like a particularly good search engine to me. I searched on it for "Linux" just to see what it would churn up and the first hit was a link to microsoft.com. All the search results appear to be "Sponsored Links"...
George Wright
I'm sorry, I just wanted to re-read that sentence in all its glory. And to pound my head on the desk every fourth or fifth word. I've discovered that the mental imagery starts to look more coherent if you soak the brain in at least three beers' worth of alcohol before applying the blunt force trauma.
On the bright side, if Fark ever holds a "Photoshop this Salvador Dali Masterpiece" contest, that sentence is gonna make me a surefire winner.
Accoona Matata?
Karma: Segmentation fault (tried to dereference a null post)
For all those nice and shiney missiles and defense systems Clintoon let them have...
artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google
I'd call this "artificial intelligence" the Comunist Party and the "better results" controled flow of information...
Nice to see a democrat suportful of free speech.
I don't feel like it...
microsoft.com...
first post!
...claiming this is a dirty trick of Karl Rove?
Well, that explains why Bill Clinton is behind it. Slick Willy will do anything to advance the Republican agenda.
(Psst, that was me being sarcastic.)
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
come from the onion web site?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
I am a little cynical here but
AI + stupid users = more stupid users
In the future war will be waged with information and education making AI do most of the work for you in lets say research is like a double wedged sword. Lets see how this will evolve.. I hope google gets in gear and wacking this new search engine. Nice to see good competition
That's one of those things you go "gee what a loon" and go on. I would hardly consider it news - it's just gossip. It has no bearing on anyone's life save the few parties directly involved and possibly a jury of her peers. The fact this would be considered "news" (much less "compelling") is, I think, a great illustration of how we as a nation could have been so stupid to re-elect a liar as a president.. or even to have believed him in the first place.
Off topic? Think about it.
The first thing that I noticed was that when you go to the page, the cursor does not have focus in the search field.
o l= mc&qt=beijing+tiananmen+student+uprising&accoona+s ubmit=Accoona+Search
Searching for "tiananmen student uprising" yeilded no information on that event.
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&c
The site cannot handle traffic like Google!
DISCLAIMER:
I don't believe what I write, and neither should you.
From the looks of it, there is nothing really new. It feels kind of like the yahoo search, and not as friendly. With my test searches, I found it difficult initially to seperate the sponsored links from the real ones, since they use a light grey text on a white background to seperate them.
Well, the first shot has been fired in the first "cyber-war."
Who thought that China would be the victim? Who though slashdot would be the aggressor?
-Peter
Maybe there is something to this.
A search for tiananmen square on Accoona reveals mostly "Travel China" sites, although it does show the National Association for Democracy page as the 11th hit.
A search for tiananmen square on Google finds sites like "student protests", "history declassified" and the wikipedia page.
Hmmm, maybe there is something to this conspiracy theory.
Whats up with condemning it just because its from China (instead of just pointing out its crappy quality)? Oh yes, I forgot, this is Slashdot, the epitome of American geekhood, all things communist must be evil. Yes, that's right, mod me down - that wont be censorship, that'll be just democracy.
I have been throwing some very general queries of things I am interested in. Google returns results with information, acoona search tends to return results for where you can buy something.
We already have those search engines, they are prolific and generally suck.
I used "Battletech" and "Half Life" as searches, you can see the massive difference.
Google returns with classicbattletech.com, and patrics battletech archive. Though it does return fasa.com, though this actually shows the strength of google, since fasa is the one that has/had rights to battletech, linking a site called fasa.com is not bad.
Half life... well try it yourself, the google search comes up with planethalflife, the official home page, etc. etc..
Acoona? No real good from it.
Perhaps when they say "better" results than google, they mean "better" in the term that someone might better sell a product?
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
He does it again ...He ridicules our country and we love him for it...
I wonder how much money have the Chinese deposited in Clinton's Swiss accounts...
but i tried a google search on "freedom": it gave 52,000,000 results, and my search took 0,07 seconds. but accoona takes over a minute and gives absolutely no results. go figure.
Doesn't show President Bush's Website, Michael Moore Website or Jimmy Carters Website. Come on now, what type of search engine doesn't allow you to spam the results.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Looks like Clinton really doesn't want to make our bankers mad.
I guess this search engine gives a new meaning to the Chinese Room
I know I'm going to be modded up on this
Does anyone else find it weird that searching up 'google' comes up with nothing useful on Accoona? Given that Google is one of the most popular sites on the web and it's chief competitor, I find this very suspicious. Either the engine is completely useless or we're definitely seeing censorship at work. The Chinese would have to be idiots to think this is a "real" search engine.
Accoona is a horrible name imo. It doesn't sound too catchy, and the double c's, and o's don't appear too user friendly. With places like google, and yahoo, it's alot easier to spell, and type in.
Just for fun, I decided to search on flaws of communism, just before Accoona got slashdotted. Very few, if any, of the search results mentioned "flaws" in the title or summary, and the third or fourth result was actually a communist party homepage. Google, on the other hand, produces relevant documents right off the bat, in America, at least. (Sorry for the imprecision, I closed the window before deciding to post this, and couldn't get in to research.)
Japan is west of Seattle.
Perhaps you weren't aware of the fact that everywhere is west of somewhere.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
You search for democracy,
and engine finds you.
Accoona!
"Pawning the Filthy
Web since 2004"
[ ] [Search]
(c)2004 Accoona Corp.
Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
Censoring 8,058,044,651 web pages
The kind of engine that searches YOU...
you know, in Communist China
You can't handle the truth.
A case of "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity".
McDermott, D. Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity.
In Mind Design: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence (ed. J. Haugeland).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981.
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
The censorship is so good I can't get any results from it at all. At least they can be shure they got all the "bad" sites.
Search for "Democracy" it returns: Nothing to see here more right along.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
I'm sure "better results" refers to any results that do not threaten or embarass the current power structure.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Bill Justen, West Memphis, Tenn.:
Pretty good, I guess. But my feeling is, if you're going to sell cigars in the gift shop, you should be able to smoke them, too. I bought a pretty pricey smoke and wanted to enjoy it as I strolled along the Avenue of the Stars, and I was told in no uncertain terms that smoking was not permitted. When I asked why cigars are sold in the gift shop, I was told that these cigars aren't "the smoking kind." Am I missing something? P.S.: The Sharon Stone robot figure in the Hollywood Atrium is busted.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
The first result is something called "MirrorDot"...
I searched Slashdot for references on MirrorDot but none returned.
What is this thing?
Choogle?
The Chinese apparently want a site with "no worries"
(Yes, I know, it's spelled wrong. I don't care)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google
Perhaps they focused so much on "better than Google" that they forget to load-test it? AI software is not known for speed. Right now it is probably thinking:
"Hmmmm. 8000% more requests than I can handle? Should I lock up? Just process the first one? Let's check the rules database. Wup, that's flooded also. This flow-chart from Bob may offer a clue. It has heuristics prepared by somebody in a similar situation. Okay, it says, "call Mom". Okay.....what? I have no Mom? Hmmmm. Now why don't I have a Mom? Let's go research that....."
Table-ized A.I.
The Chinese government was one of SEVERAL large investors. Not the only investor as the submittor tried to frame it. This search engine isn't some sort of special anti-democracy device whose sole purpose is to oppress the Chinese people. If you think Clinton was anti-democratic then you must be posting from Cananda right now considering the current administrations policies.
If we are going to start bashing everyone who has anything to do with making or receiving money from the Chinese government then there are going to be a hell of a lot of Neocon's on the list as well.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
This should signal google to immediately remove all of it censorship in China. They tried to do some minimal censorship but if that wasn't enough, why not just drop out entirely and put up a non-offensive message letting the chinese people know what they're missing. If that gets blocked too, so be it. I've talked to a few students from China in the US and they say that the public apathy over censorship is downright frightening. If your content is being censored, put up a message and withhold it all. Nothing they can do about that.
With this!
In China, the search engine owns You!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
My first impression is that it is using too many on-page factors (keyword density, etc) to rank sites, and too little off-site factors (incoming links, etc). This is a good thing for marketers as it makes SEO much easier.
If you ever wondered what clinton really thought of human rights..this should remove all doubt. where is the media outcry?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
I thought they just paid him in hookers.
Point taken, please substitute Eastern with "Evil", and Western with "Holy".
I don't know about submitting a site it looks more like a "give us your working email address so we can spam you even more".
Who in their right mind developes a web application where the form submission is via email.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship
Have you actually tried searching for "democracy in china" on both that accoona thing and google? I'd say that _does_ show censorship.
Yea, when I search for my name with quotes it finds my page on the first non ad hit. When I search without it just finds my last name on a bunch of pages. that's .. useful. Google returns my homepage as the #1 hit for both and I don't have to scroll to see it.
Wake me when this becomes something good.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
First search result for 'linux' is microsoft.com
http://accoona.com/search?col=mc&qt=linux
those articles are simply from irresponsible reporters, there are too many similar ones say they are better than this or that, without basic knowledge of what it is.
there have been many "search engine" in china, I just dont think any of them really work that well.
The extent of Bill Clinton's involvement is that he was hired to give a speech at the launch. He isn't involved in the day to day running.
This is not true.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Accoona shows a lot of tourist-related information on Tibet and pro-Chinese links on Tibet, that considers Tibet as any another region inside China.
Google, in the other hand, shows a lot of pages related to the movement to free Tibet from Chinese domination. Note the link to the Tibetan Government in Exile's website, which ranked #3 in Google. Also, note that the #3 match in Accoona (under "sponsored links"), shows the Chinese government's page on Tibet.
Isn't this undeniable proof that Accoona's filtering works?
Personally I prefer REAL intelligence of Google to the ARTIFICIAL intelligence of the Chinese masters.
Free Tibet
So long as they have that list of lame "sponsored links" (searching "mx records" brought up ebay trying to sell me music) above the real results, they're going to fail.
And somebody forgot to specify a background colour for the front page -- it's a lovely default grey with the logo in a white box on my screen.
China is using this to build ICBMs to target the western United States.
And of course, had this not had happened, China would have never spied on the US or have developed their own ICBM technology. Never. Therefore China doesn't deserve weather satellites, especially under the New World Order of US world imperialism.
(And have since threatened to hit Los Angeles with a nuclear warhead if we ever interfere in regards to our ally Taiwan.)
ANy references? What do you mean by interfere, isn't that a vague term?
I like how the first result for a simple search of 'linux' returns a (probably biased) comparison between Linux and Windows, hosted by www.microsoft.com.
o l= mc&qt=linux&accoona+submit=Accoona+Search
OH, and the link is broken to boot!
I think I'll keep using google, thanks.
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&c
"Obscenity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker." - cloak42
Read this
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
the first thing I ever search for in a new engine is "google".
:/
I think it's a pretty good test of the honesty of the engine.
try it with this one
Hey! Aren't you the guy who told me that the Americans were not in Baghdad, and that the brave resistance had repelled the infidels?
I'm afraid I can no longer consider you a credible source of information.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
"Accoona takes its name from the Swahili phrase, "accoona matata," for "no worries," popularized by Disney's film, "The Lion King." "
you gotta be classy when you associate your companies name with lion kind.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
This isn't too surprising. Bill Clinton sold China our multi-stage missile technology for satellite launching. China is using this to build ICBMs to target the western United States.
The claim is perhaps debatable, but after all the accusations about it (I too remember all the hubbub about it years ago), Clinton would have been wise to stear clear of any business dealings related to the Chinese government. It does not "look good". It would be like doing business with Monica's family. Let it be, Bill.
Table-ized A.I.
Compare a google search for "Chinese Human Rights Violations" to the Accoona one.
For the lazy:
Google
Accoona
Granted, the Accoona one has relavent results... but I would say at the very least, google's results are more appropriate to my search -- at worst one would suggest that "Using the search engine from inside the US doesn't show any noticeable amount of censorship" may in fact be false (although I'm not prepared to say that Accoona is censored).
Just one interesting search...
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One fish / Two fish / Red fish / Blue fish
ShyaOS - Think Differently!
Do a search for "linux" on google and on accoona.
Other searches provided just as useless results.
Linux on google:
www.linux.org/
www.linux.com/
www.redhat.com/
www.kernel.org/
www.debian.org/
www.linuxjourn
www.linux-mandrake.com/
www.linux-laptop
www.linuxtoday.com/
www.gentoo.org/
Linux on accoona:
http://software-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.org/
http://software-for-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.o
http://programas-para-linux.jovencitas-cachond
http://linux-software.jovencitas-cachondas.o
http://programas-en-linux.jovencitas-cachonda
http://linux.ittoolbox.com/
http://ie.mojolin
http://zh.mojolin.com/
http://uk.mojolin.c
http://au.mojolin.com/
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Now it all makes sense.
When Slashdot has the article on it 2 days after NPR reports it nationally.
From the site
How to SuperTarget your search
Is this a copyright infringement on Super Target? And even if it isn't...does anyone else think this is the dumbest name ever? Really, I'm not sure why I would want to "SuperTarget" my search.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
Thanks for the link to google.com I had never heard of that site before :P
The phrase is actually 'hakuna matata', and while it means much the same as no worries, I've never heard 'matata' actually translated as worries. It's more usually problems, or troubles.
A bit more useless/interesting information:
Simba, is of course, lion.
Rafiki is friend.
In 'The Lion King 2' Scar's son is called Kovu, swahili for scar.
An anagram of Simba, msiba, translates as disaster/calamity/accident!
China's ICBMs
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Microsoft is first in the sponsored results. The Accoona results listed below are dominated on the first page by a bunch of variations of:
http://software-linux.jovencitas-cachondas.org/
which sells access on a daily or monthly basis to download software such as Norton 2004. This whole thing is sketchy, to say the least.
Their site submission form uses an email address of submityoursite@accoona.com to submit a site. Any guesses on how long until this site is deluged by mortgage-enlargement spam? They gotta keep buying all those Treasuries to keep the US economy inflated, after all.
Reminds me of the stupidest line in the Matrix:
Neo: "AI?"
Morpheus: "Artificial Intelligence."
Your average joe might be impressed that the Chinese used "artificial intelligence" in their search engine. Too bad he also thinks AI is the same as computer consciousness.
Why not create an open-source-based or wikipedia-like search engine that displays sites blocked by China? That would be a great and embarassing way to draw attention to censorship.
Table-ized A.I.
Accoona has the mathematical symbol for infinity instead of "oo" - that already makes it bigger than Google, which is only 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0, considerably less than an infinite amount!
--LWM
Better results than Google? You know, I can find an awful lot of pr0n and anti-Chinese propaganda through Google. Doubt they can top that.
- IP
I'm no communist, but I hate seeing the debate muddied like this. Just to be clear, communism shouldn't be conflated with totalitarianism, just as capitalism shouldn't be conflated with liberty. China demonstrates that well; for most of the past half-century it was basically communist and totalitarian; now it is rapidly moving towards capitalism, but the totalitarianism shows few signs of abating, unfortunately.
You're a suburbanite.
those articles are simply from irresponsible reporters
:-)
You mean they just make up stuff about being better than Google and using AI? That is rather extreme spin. I didn't know SCO had reporters in China
Table-ized A.I.
China demonstrates that well; for most of the past half-century it was basically communist and totalitarian; now it is rapidly moving towards capitalism, but the totalitarianism shows few signs of abating, unfortunately.
Looks like they're proving that capitalism, not democracy, is the source of prosperity.
I searched for how to beat the Chinese firewall and it just came up with how to beat slot machines!
We need to repeal the 22nd ammendment (term limits) so Bush and Clinton can run against each other in 2008. Can you imagine the "nukuler" fallout from the race?
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
As someone downthread mentioned, the actual quote is In the end you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei. which comes with a very different posture than we'll nuke LA if you help Taiwan. What they're saying is that if we interfer in a mainland attack on Taiwan, they'll send some nukes over our way.
Would they do it? I'm not sure. What they've done with the policy, however, is akin to what we did with the Soviets during the cold war. They've established standard operating procedure and announced them publicly (our CW one was something to the effect of "if you roll tanks outside of the COMECON or Warsaw Pact, they get nuked"), and have placed the imperitus for security on the US. Strategically, not a bad move.
Would they loft a few nukes if we interveened in their efforts to retake Taiwan? I think they probably would. If we entered the fray, we would win (thanks mainly to our friend Aegis). This would be quite the affront to several thousand years of Chinese pride, being beaten by this upstart 200-year old state. So in response, they'd win they only way they can - launching on LA and the west coast.
Could they hit something? I think so. The most recently developed Russian nukes could probably beat our "missle shield" assuming it works, as the warheads are essentially cruise missles (that get delivered on an ICBM). Common knowledge is that they've allready started seling these to the Chinese. I suspect enough of them would get through to make a difference.
The other thing to remember is that in nuclear war, China considers its population to be much less significant than we do. There's over a billion of them, and their country is bigger - they can deal with 300 million deaths.
Cue The Sun...
The results are provided by Overture. Just look at the links and compare a few queries.
Clinton doesn't own any "search technologies" nor did he sell any to "China". Hey, I've got an idea - why don't you RTFA for once, and try to stay on topic? If you did, you'll find out that it was one Chinese company selling data to another Chinese company. No "China" (Chinese gov't) involved. Clinton wasn't selling jack shit as far as search technology goes. Only private sectors doing business with each other, inside China. Score: 5 my ass. Enough with your knee-jerking, of-topic, trolling, paranoid, imaginary, schizophrenic, albino, lesbian, monkey, political bull, please.
Just did a catch all search for "Chinese Government Censorship" A whopping 44000 results showed up with hardly controversial topics. The same search on google revealed 222000 results with some pretty striking headlines.
I highly doubt a Comunist Chinese AI program will have a flow-chart from "Bob."
English Search Results (Scroll down to "ACCOONA RESULTS")
Chinese Search Results
First search result on the english page is titled "Fifteenth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre." That page doesn't even show up at all in the results on the chinese-language version.
When I search for 'wikipedia' the first result I get has this headline 'Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bukkake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
Alright, looks like some AI that!
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
From the terms:
/. indexed.
"By posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through this service, you are granting ACCOONA a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to:
Use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display any such communication. Sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the foregoing rights granted with respect to the communication.
The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such communication, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction."
Privacy issues aside, according to this retarded agreement (if it actually holds up), if their server visits, and indexes your website (which would qualify as a form of "communication"), they technically inherit full trademark, copyright, and all other rights to it. Also, I noticed it has
Strange, 'cause communists have such a track record of sincerity and honesty.
no communism is inheriently totalitarian. have you read any writings of communist leaders? what happens to people who disagree? in the utopia society suppose someone is born and that person disagrees, what happens to them? they are removed form "utopia". i dont like proof by example, but look at any communist state in the world today how come EVERY SINGLE one of them is totalitarian? can you show me a case whem communism is not?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Yes, we know Slick was very good about keeping up appearances. All the way through the last minute pardons for sale to the stolen silverware.
If you disagree then it must be overrated, redundant or trolling.
Comparing the results between google and accoona for 'chinese dictatorship'.
Uhoh.. You really pissed off the anti-bushians now.. hehehe
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/ch-war.htm
Well who *is* on Google's side?
Six hundred million screamin' Chinamen.
I thought there was a billion screamin' Chinamen.
There was...
especially under the New World Order of US world imperialism.
You support communist imperialism, don't you?
I'm afraid I can no longer consider you a credible source of information.
And your name is TrollBridge. Ooooh, the irony.
Well it doesn't do as good as google on a search for "poo". Accoona.com gives the #1 site as something selling Koala Jewelry, while Google.com gives ratemypoo.com and some other nices ones in the top 5. That settles things in my book.
Interesting how few useful results are returned when searcing for the term "proxy avoidance"
Read the comment before you troll. It is a perfectly good comment.
It could be an underpowered search index, but searching for fun, socialist superpower-friendly topics, such as "Falun gong" sure doesn't bring up any useful hits.
Search for linux and get microsoft.com as the first result.
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Google: china government oppression
Accoona: china government oppression
weird stuff, and then I searched google.com and the closest thing I got was google paraguay, and that was the 3rd result... hmmm....
I can't say I'm impressed with this search engine offering. I tried the most obvious query I could think of, bill clinton, which yielded a bizarre novelty site as the first result.
A Google search on the same keywords yields Bill Clinton's official White House biography.
I'll be waiting for Accoona 2.0.
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well, I think it's quite clear that china is in the brutal starting phase of capitalism now.
maybe it's only clear to most chinese people.
So, now China will have the Fox News of search engines.
Both extremes meet in the middle and do the same..
How does this not disturb anyone? The govt of China gave money to an organization solely devoted to promoting the image of a former US President? Something just doesn't seem right here...
test it yourself, goto google and search fro taiwan and you get the Republic of China's official page. Search for it in Acoona there is no mention of the Republic of China anywhere.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
... I think what he means is that THEORETICAL, MARXIST communism isn't totalitarian. The fact that the bolsheviks chose that approach to communism doesn't mean communism = totalitarian.
-too lazy to type in my nick and PW. screw the karma.
....the search engine looks you up.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
I'm not gonna touch that one... but I wouldn't smoke it if I were you. ;)
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Since it's very non-American it does less censoring, is more credible and brings fortune to real people.
I will be using that one for sure. The search results will improbe btw. Their system has just started learning! If you reset the Google learning data it would yield horrible results as well with just the crawled page information!
For fun I tried a search of "Chinese Torture Tibet" without the quotes and compared it to Google. The difference between Nuns forced into suicide and a dirty joke seems a bit odd to me. Yahoo seemed to have more harsh links as well.
Accoona's results are full of spammy sites.
Books should go to Amazon, instead show http://free-adult-comix-books.sexcomix.tv
Auctions should go to eBay or Y! Auctions, instead show http://auctions.studentcenter.org
Email should got to Y! Email or hotmail, instead show http://rfc1733.x42.com
Dating should show match.com or eHarmony, instead shows every subdomain on games-ts.com.
These are just a few examples to make a point that Accoona is far from showing good results. Accoona did hire the former CEO of Compaq and Clinton himself announced the new search engine today however the engineering part of Accoona is in need of serious improvement.
Slashdot has really gone downhill.
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Here are the first four Accoona searches I did:
MSN
SLATE
AOL
BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM (this is a very popular bay area-centric motorcycle forum that I regularly visit)
Compare and contrast this with the results I received from Google:
MSN
SLATE
AOL
BAY AREA RIDERS FORUM
Very, very different. After searching with these very common, popular queries, I've come to the conclusion that this new Accoona search engine isn't worth it's weight in salt. Really, it's a great testimony to how good Google really is.
Of lesser importance, the time it takes to obtain said search results is significantly longer than for Google.
" This isn't too surprising. Bill Clinton sold China our multi-stage missile technology for satellite launching. "
Bill CLinton sold it? Did you mean to say that a corporation in the military industrial complex sold it after some beurocrat OKed the deal?
I wasn't aware that Bill Clinton was manufacturing ICBM technology.
evil is as evil does
That's good advice. Let your campaign donors' country feel free to spy on you and steal nuclear warhead technology and other tech. so they get something in return. All thanks to Slick Willy.
I tried to SuperTarget my search: chinese suppression violation human rights by checking chinese and violation It didn't seem to make a difference in the results which were totally different than googles...
Google: china government oppression
Accoona: china government oppression
hmm.... One result on the main page even mentioning Chinese government oppression in the results. I'll stick to google, thanks.
In Communist China, Accoona searches YOU!
That's not irony. Someone calling YOU a genius IS irony, however.
So non-sponsored links appear below the page fold. Good job.
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i searched for "cock n balls" then clicked the "cock" check box because i find cock to be more important than balls and sure enough accoona matatta the first link is to kim jong il
accoona is powered by overture, so really isn't this like a Yahoo co-venture with the a communist superpower endorsed by a former US president and future UN sec. general?
if thats what it takes to beat google
I just have to say that the Clinton reference is commpletely appropriate here. Who better for the Chinese to stick on their flagship search engine than Clinton?
After who sold China dual use missle guidance technology so they can make their nuclear warhead hit their targets? Sure the Chinese needed it for their space program...Riiiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Let's see, who was it that gave the North Koreans the technology they needed to kick start their nuclear power program? Sure Kim Jong Il needed it for energy to power his hot tub...Riiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Oh, one more, who was it who came up with the great idea of managing terrorism through law enforcement and therefore preventing curcial intelligence information from being used to defend this country by sealing it under a Grand Jury? Hell no wonder the CIA didn't know what it was talking about.
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* ding* *ding*
If I were the Chinese, he's the first person I'd pick too. He's done more to weaken the US and put this country in danger than any President I've studied.
welcome our new web indexing Red Chinese overlords.
I for one welcome our new [insert main topic] overlords.
Hmmm, I can't find any results for the "falun gong" group?!?! Any ideas as to why?
This is creepy stuff, very Orwellian. If the US is helping China protect its citizens from collecting information freely, how is China hepling the US in return?
No 6: "I'm not a number. I'M A FREE MAN!!!" No 2: "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA" -- The Prisoner
I'd like to see you stand west of the North/South Pole...
This is stupid. Why on earth would I want some hunk of metal using "artificial intelligence" to determine which keywords I want to search for? That's my job. I have real intelligence, and I'm perfectly capable of determining which keywords to search for myself. What I'm not capable of is searching through a few billion webpages in under a second. That's its job.
Also, the name is stupid. They tried a little too hard on that one.
Also, the search engine sucks. If I search for "Fat Tire Beer", nowhere do I find New Belgium, the manufacturer. This result is first on Google.
Also, they're evidently afraid of competition. If I search for Accoona on Google, www.accoona.com is the top result. If I search for Google on Accoona, I get a lot of non-printing characters. But no link to Google.
- James
The company seeks to distinguish itself from Google, Yahoo Inc. and growing list of other search engine players by using artificial intelligence to make the results more relevant, said Pfeiffer.
There's some humor in this statement in that Accoona seems to be using Overture for at least its sponsored results. One example. But then, most modern "competitors" of Google and Yahoo seem to fall back on the technology of one or the other to some degree.
You've been watching political mudsling ads again, haven't you?
Ardente veritate incendite tenebras mundi
Regardless of people's opinions of the government of china, the fact remains that 'Communism' as practised in that nation is in fact Maoism, and does not have overly much in comming with Marxist communism. The fact that people routinely label things as 'Communist = Bad' is somewhat disheartening on a forum where people are expected to be capable of rational thought. Toeing the capitalist party line and just deriding communism because the media told you to makes you no better than someone who mindlessly parrots Maoist dogma in China. You just think your government allows you to have 'free' and 'uncensored' media, while the chinese government is more blatant about it. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, try searching google for 'US Soldier casket pictures'
To sell legitimacy, however tainted it may be.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Yeah, in theory everything works. But the question remains...why is it the communist countries that are totalitarian? Communism has the most blood on it of any 'ism'. It's an ideal, but not one that's really compatible with human nature.
Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.
General: Oh, only Commie stooges, ay?
It seems as most urls in the results are encoded to go through www20.overture.com.. Are they just updating their database to give better search results in the future or are they possibly monitoring what links [chinese] people click?
Here are their results on Tiananmen Square -- at least like the tenth link down has something relavent. Needless to say the google results are quite different.
... After an extended hiatus, I'm working on the site again - I've started uploading Beijing photos, so far just ... Tiananmen Square, will add Forbidden City stuff later. Gaaah, there's still so much to do though - I haven't even started writing up my ...
... Tian'anmen ... Square ... Hotels located near Tian'anmen ... Square and the Railway Station. ...
...
... Beijing Attractions Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, ... Tiananmen Square, Hutongs, Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven ...
... front of a line of Chinese army tanks during the pro-democracy ... Tiananmen Square demonstrations, the identity and the fate of a lone protester remains in ...
... Tour Beijing Super-Valued Coach Tour Package Beijing Badaling Great Wall Half Day Tour Beijing Summer Palace & Panda Zoo Half Day Tour Beijing ... Tiananmen Square & Forbidden City Half Day Beijing Half or One Day Hutong Tour(Rickshaw) Beijing Two Walking Tours: Traditional & Modern Beijing-Qufu-Taishan Mountain 3-Night ...
... ... To ... Tiananmen Square / Forbidden City (centre of Beijing) ... Just next to the subway which is coveniently connected to the Tian'anmen ... Square, the Forbidden City and other major sites. As are the important government agencies ...
... declared martial law during the ... Tiananmen Square protests (May, 1989), and was ... NEWSMAKER-Li Peng bedeviled by ... Tiananmen, corru
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I've focused enough on the government. Let's focus on the Chinese people. Most of them support the actions of their government in censoring information.
Look at your American universities. The engineering and business classes are overflowing with Chinese folks. Now, look at meetings of Amnesty International. My. My. The Chinese are woefully underrepresented at such meetings. Why? They talk about all sorts of "offensive things" like (1) fighting censorship, (2) freedom of speech, (3) freedom of assembly, etc.
If you want to know why China failed as a society, shove a mirror in front of a Chinese national. The answer is in the mirror.
... a cluster of three million Chinese browsing the web in real time and responding to queries!!
Lookup something such as "falun gong" or "falun dafa" and you won't get anything anywhere near what you get on google.
Does that mean that Algooma's alpha version will be named Algoo+1ma?
and now back to the fallout shelter...
I thought that was supposed to be "if-you-find-it,-they-will-block-it". *ducks*
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down this road or is going down this road, formed SubjexChina a year or so ago, they/we developed an AI search engine. www.subjex.net which i am ashamed to say I was part of development of. But this AI search engine is not their primary revenue source, it is SubjexCSR (Customer Service Rep).
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col= mc&qt=Google+Search+Engine
S earch+Engine
= mc&qt=Goatse
= mc&qt=tubgirl
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Accoona+
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=goats e
http://accoona.com/search?charset=utf-8&la=en&col
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=tubgi rl
The links for goatse and tubgirl are just search engine results NOT the actual links.
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
I did a search on these words, and 14 of the first 15 hits were to pages with Guns N Roses lyrics. And after the 15th site? It didn't list any more, even though the top of the page said "Results 11 - 21 of 87173". Going to the next ten showed no links, while the top of the page said "Results 21 - 31 of 87173". This could just be due to server overload or some other slashdot effect, though.
--Santa Claus
China perhaps calls themselves communists (I don't know if they actually do that? Soviet did not afaik), however that does not make china a communist country.
Please use the term "totalitarian nation/state/country", as that is more appropriate.
http://accoona.com/search?col=wc&qt=Google
English and Chinese responses, 10 pages worth.
The clearance system sounds logical. It is not. It is completely arbitrary. -- John Bolton
excellent.
China is ungood?
Guess what, when you submit a URL, it is sent by email and not via a mail script or something as used by other search engines... microsoft touch, no doubt... ;)
Google owned the market and Altavista before that. The only way Google can improve at this point is to add a "search within your search results" option. Microsoft used to have this on their knowledge base and it was incredibly helpful. For example, you search for "bash shell", scripts, convert and you get a ton of things you don't care about. In order to fine tune this search, you then have the option to further filter the results. For some mysterious reason Microsoft dropped this feature from their search engine.
When I was a kid, I sold some of my brother's toys. Strangely enough, I didn't manufacture them.
I highly doubt a Comunist Chinese AI program will have a flow-chart from "Bob."
Bah-Ahb?
Except for the fact that Clinton forced Israel to release Mohammed Atta (terrorist from 9/11) under the Oslo agreement. VP Gore also did a number on Col. Ollie North about his (North's) concern about bin Laden. Gore laughed when Col. North said we should be worried about Laden. What a team?
are belong to Accoona (and Bill Clinton)
Search for 'google' on accoona, won't get www.google.com on the first page
Search for 'accoona' on google, its the first hit
choogle
% mkdir
% ls -dF
- jiggity
I find it interesting that "screw mao" returns absolutely no results. Must be a bug! ;)
Not very scientific, but I tried "height mt. robson" in Google and the first result had the height of the mountain in the blurb. Tried it on Accoona and I got a page of Hotels. None of which were even in Canada even. Also it took about 10 times as long to even bring up the WRONG results. Nope. Still not going to stop using Google.
It's about time some competitors to Google started appearing in other countries. Not sure I'd choose China though. Come on Sweden - what can you do for us?
#1 is called "scored OR" and has been around since the 1960s. In fact, every major web search engine used to use this approach until the web got really big.
#2 is called term weighting, and has also been around since the 1960s. These days it's generally not exposed to users, but most search engines have this capability under the hood.
#3 is found in any metasearch engine.
So how is this AI, exactly?
I hate to distract from all the discussion about China, but the search engine itself is a mess.
I tried my standard test keyword, which is obscure enough to not get too many responses but real enough to get a good set (kw is "medienkunst" which is german for "media art" and also one of my domains, medienkunst.com).
On Accoona I got a bunch of sites, mostly domains I registered at some point, some active and some not. All of them have this "info" button that shows info about "my" company (some true some obvious crap).
It would appear that they just trolled whois and grouped domains together by who registered them, and then made a bunch of wild-monkeys-flying-out-of-their-asses assumptions about that connection.
So, if that's their "AI" I don't think G has to worry, Clinton or no Clinton.
This Like That - fun with words!
The top 9 results are all in Chinese... the last result on the top page is Google UK, followed by pages and pages of more Chinese stuff.
Search Google for "Accoona." It's the top result.
"All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss." - Douglas Adams
Search results for "china human rights violation"
Using Accoona and Google
Slightly different wouldn't you say ?
A million monkeys and this is the best sig they could come up with...
"With all those nasty pro-democracy websites that Google keeps turning up, what's a communist country supposed to do? Well, create their own search engine of course!
Lucky America taking the moral high ground, only in such a consumer paradise could a government buy and sell it's way into office and keep a whole media network paid off.
I guess you must think that state sanctioned censorship is far worse - compared to America's self censorship for patriotic, propaganda and political reasons. Same result - just different methods.
Wise up sucker.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
www.nvidia.com is not even on the results page!
Why weren't there charges filed if things were missing.
v e.html
Is it because it was not true?
I've heard everything from missing 'W's on keyboards to grafitti on the walls. But no evidence.
You think that it is that difficult for a Republican to take a photograph?
Or you think that Bush's Brain is a liar?
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It seems to be a rather poorly implemented frontend for overture. Many of the links are overture links (they try to hide the fact by disabling the status line over those particular links). Also quite interesting is a search for google
Go to accoona.com, and do a search for "china tiananmen square"... and see if the first 50 results or so make any reference to a little incident that happened in 1989. Hmm.
It is interesting to see that if a search for linux is inputted in accuna.com microsoft.com (A "sponsored" result) shows up as the first hit. However on google linux.com shows up. Odd....
Try doing a search for "Search Engine" =)
Here's what it returned as the page description:
... States is presented with the ... Accoona Championship Trophy by Accoona Corp. Executive Director Jonathan McCann ...
Accoona World Women's Chess Championship Series Accoona French-American Women's Chess
The above text doesn't appear on the Accoona page and doesn't give any hint you're about to land on a search engine page.
Looks like Google has fresher data. All The Web does a bit better job too.
So a ex US President, helped launch a Chinese company (communist) create an application that will deny access to people in china to access information on democracy.
This same company gave an "undisclosed amount (aka large amount)" of money so to open a library (free information) with the name of a ex us president in a democracy.
sooo.....
democracy helps communists block free information to communists about democracy
while the communists are helping democracy supply more free information to democracy
.
Am I missing anything here, or is this just silly?
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search for:
java sun
And google gets java.sun.com as the first link...
In Accoona:
www.sun.com is the closest hit, and this is on the the third page...
Wait. That's not how that goes.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
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I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling blue dress.
That's only because they call it "Christianity" instead of "Christianism"
Search for "human rights" on Google, and the first links you get are to Human Rights Watch, the UN, and Amnesty International. The sponsored links are clearly relevant.
What do you get when you search Accoona for "human rights"? "Human rights on eBay. Find human rights items at low prices." The first non-sponsored link is to holysmoke.org, which doesn't appear to be about human rights.
I don't know if this is censorship, but it is a crappy search engine.
Why doesn't this surprise me?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Wow what a real good, AI targeted search engine! Do a search for "books". First un-sponsored result is porn!! This search engine rocks :P
Quoth the bum,
"I hope you all make lots of money,"
Thanks Bill. I hope your penis falls off.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
This is actually great, now we can compare results. After doing a quick comparision on a few keywords I noticed that google is actually more censored.
I.E. search both sites for keyword "zionist" you see that accoona gives slighty more results that weights against pro-zionist results. While the google results only returned one on the third page.
I guess google is censoring (or cleaning up) more than they tell. Of course this was known considering the number of junk results you get on certain keywords (not to be mentioned =)
I just went to the "submit a site" area, because I need all the exposure I can get, and upon submitting the form I get the not-often seen "This form is being submitted using e-mail." message box. Wow, I expect this from a 14 year old working on his first website, not from a search engine.
Have you ever asked yourself, Is It Normal?.
What communist countries? USSR wasn't communist country... it was socialist...
That sounds like a good name for it!
They're running off of tomcat! I got tomcat the standard error page, and netcraft says they're running mod_jk. Are these guys serious?????
The first non-sponsored result to come up with a search for "George W Bush" is a giant picture of a mushroom cloud. Interesting. The second hit is for a set of playing cards mocking the president. And the fourth is for "Bush Country Ketchup: The Official Ketchup of Right-Leaning Americans." Dick Cheney does little better.
Also, hello everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_th e_Soviet_Union/
sounds easy enough yes?
Accoona Result : HereWell.
Google Result : Here
Not only is google the more accurate at what i wanted, it also returns the most results, and faster. I dont know about any of you guys but im hardly impressed with accoona
Yes ... and no doubt we'd all feel their pain.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Searched for "linux" and first result I get is (sponsered result no less)
Compare Windows and Linux Servers
Windows outperforms Linux: Industry case studies and test lab results provide insight
into the advantages of the Microsoft® Windows® platform. Read the independent analysis now.
www.microsoft.com
nuff said
... I'm sorry Dave, I cannot let you search for that.
http://accoona.com/search?col=mc&qt=china
the first result: "China Replacements at Replacements.com"
Once again.
Did Bill Clinton himself sell this technology? It's a simple yes or no question.
evil is as evil does
Check the american history and how it treats its own citizens who had different politcal ideas. But they that is alright because everyone who is not a capatalist is an enemy right? America is for free people and free people only choose capatalism otherwise they are not free. Nice dogma mate.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Tried the accoona.com search on "Linux", many hits then when closing down the Firefox browser there was another Window behind it with a link to some weird web page, I didn't go there. But why didn't Firefox popup blocker block the "behind window"?
Try searching for "Google". Amusing.
void*x=(*((void*(*)())&(x=(void*)0xfdeb58)))();
OK. Now we know where "everywhere" is, and "somewhere".
But what about "nowhere" and "anywhere" - are they north and south? Or what? I don't get it.
I am anarch of all I survey.
1. Slashdot, turned out MirrorDot
2. Wikipedia, turned out Wikipedia discussion on deleting its Bukkake article.
3. Google News, turned out Google News Canada (I'm not kidding).
4. Tiananmen Square Massacre, turned out a bizzare article on the BCC only faintly alluding to it.
5. China Blocks Google News, turned out a news article titled "Google Expands..." (irrelevant)
and last, but not least:
6. Chinese girls in the nude turned out "naked-old-lady.com" (NSFW).
Sure it is, just west to that block of ice next door.
can you imagine a beow...
Nope, not gonna do it.
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Bukkake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You couldn't make it up.
fish and pipes
many, many of the results produced by this search engine really link to overture.com and (i guess) redirect to the actual result site (after logging, of course).
this is, of course, extremely bad.
The results are coming from (or at least the spidering was done by) Inktomi. At least you know where to put the blame...
Well, search for 'Chicom' on Google vs this new chicom search engine. The results are a bit different.
Seriously!
Search for Democrary: Acooona vs Google
Senthil
I never realized it was so powerful.
http://www.freetibet.org/ is actually in the top five.
So what happens in people click 'unwanted' links to the top positions?
-------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.