Comments on: Can Anyone Compete with Google?

By: Glyconutrients

Glyconutrients — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:03:00 +0000

I have seen this while searching the term “cuil” in the “cuil search engine”, ”
Cuil – The World’s Biggest Search Engine”
So is it World’s biggest search engine? I hope that it will be after 10-15 years.

By: Passive Harry

Passive Harry — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:32:00 +0000

MGA, Are you sure?
I know that it was started by some lady who have worked in Google but I think it is very difficult to do so.

By: Lake Hartwell

Lake Hartwell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:09:00 +0000

Google has no more of a monopoly on searching than Microsoft has on OSs. There is plenty of competition and room for anyone else who thinks they can compete. Just because an entity has huge market share doesn’t make them a monopoly and I tend to applaud companies that do what they do well enough to dominate their market. Last I read Google “only” has a 62% share of the search market. That number would be close to 100% if they were a monopoly.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:17:00 +0000

Thanks for bringing up Me.dium, Chris. There are so many niche engines out there that it’s impossible to discuss them all. However, Me.dium is definitely interesting especially for current topics as you mentioned.

By: MGA

MGA — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:16:00 +0000

I believe in Cuil. They better break Google monopoly.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:15:00 +0000

In response to Browser Rank, this has been tried before. DirectHit had a search engine built entirely on clickstream data (Acquired by Ask.com in 2000). They got the data from ISPs in those days. The end-result is really not that much better than Page-Rank.

Me.dium on the other hand is processing user's clickstream data in real-time to create a different lens based on what's going on now. e.g. do a search for John Edwards on Google or Live, and you get johnedwards.com and wiki/johnedwards. Do the same search on Me.dium and you learn that today people care about his love child, pictures of his mistress, etc.

The difference is real-time (what people are browsing now) vs. historical (what they browsed in the past). Social vs. Old School. Check it out: http://me.dium.com/search

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:33:00 +0000

Google’s worst enemy are not his competitors but his expensive and crappy adwords system.

By: Gorilla

Gorilla — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:31:00 +0000

I agree with that, Micheal. But with more search engines coming into the light to over take Google’s monopoly away, I think we shall be able to get a better service, in the process.

By: Micheal

Micheal — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:00:00 +0000

Google has a monopoly on search. But you have to applaud google, they have done a lot of things to improve search for people.
There will be some who will are not so keen on some of google's antics.
But there is no one else out there at the moment with as much clout as google.