i dont think it is that great and it will be very hard to convince so many google and yahoo searchers to try something new.
the site has a lot of potential.. but not as a search engine... and look we are all talking about it so it must be important
I think that the only google competitor could become Baidu.com.....you have to consider that there are 1.400.000.000 chinese people on this world...
Lets Face it, Google is the Best Search Engine around just so easy type in Google very easy name to remember and if you submit your site they will list you very fast.
If you get a good inbound link they will list you very fast. But the Sandbox may keep you from ranking for several months.
Why Sandbox may keep you from ranking for several months, because i have to many inbound links to fast.
This was a pretty funny thread! First somebody falls for a ridiculous promotion (hint: computer scientists don't design Internet search engines. They design computers. I bet you also forward every virus hoax e-mail you get because "Microsoft and IBM have verified it to be true.") and then somebody else takes over the thread to push his own search engine and call Google names and generalise that anyone who happens to have a job there is a "prick." Humour aside, let's try to remember what makes a search engine powerful: tons of users. And who are users? Mostly regular people. Not webmasters; not marketers; not software designers (or computer scientists). And what do regular people want? Ease. Everybody knows Google and Yahoo because they started early, promoted themselves well, and dominated; and everybody knows MSN because Microsoft has enough money to play the "me too" game. So there are three well-known SEs that work. Try telling an typical searcher that there's another search engine that might have returned "better" results than their favourite SE did. Their response will most likely be along the lines of "So?" - They found a site or three that satisfied their quest. And most people already know there are one or two other search engines they could use, but how many of them do you suppose go and repeat their search on a second SE? If people don't like their results, they usually try another search phrase, not another search engine. And if it gets down to having that hard a time finding something in their favourite SE, they'll likely decide they "couldn't find it on the Internet" and look offline. An exception of course would be the specialty SEs, which some people use when they want to find something in a specific topic -- if they've discovered the specialty SE and it works for them. (Can't think of any examples, as the only time I ever hear about the specialy SEs is when a company spams me with an offer to list my site with "hundreds of search engines.") OK, gotta go. Done my coffee.
Can somebody say reliability problems??? I don't think Google has the fastest site in town because it's cool to have low page load times...