Your opinion wanted...

Discussion in 'Products & Tools' started by Golgotha, Apr 15, 2005.

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    This weekend I will be making some changes to the Search Engine Decoder. Need to reflect the fact that Hotbot now pulls results from Ask rather than Ink. Ask has been making mini-moves as of late - they now have results in Lycos and Hotbot, plus I saw an Ask TV commercial the other day, first time in years.

    But, all that is besides the point - here's where I want your opinion, I will be removing Fast from the Decoder and replacing it with something else. What do you think that something else should be?

    My thoughts are either 'Clusty', which I have been using lately and really like or 'Gigablast', which is the 'Bucknell' of the search engine world.

    Perhaps Clusty should not be allowed because they are a meta-search engine and I should just include WiseNut?

    or maybe something else altogether?

    your thoughts?

    Link: http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp
     
    Golgotha, Apr 15, 2005 IP
  2. sadcox66

    sadcox66 Spirit Walker

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    Legend : Needs purple arrow at bottom for ownership

    * Also does'nt FAST own alltheweb.com ? Could not get any option to show this.
    * Clicking on FAST or alltheweb.com does not show any relationships
    * I could not differentiate between paid and organic results
    * spent a minute and gave up after not expecting the relationships I was
    expecting to see
     
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  3. Golgotha

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    * Also does'nt FAST own alltheweb.com
    - no, Yahoo does

    * Clicking on FAST or alltheweb.com does not show any relationships
    - there really is no relationship these days, which is why I am replacing them, FAST is no longer a contender.

    * I could not differentiate between paid and organic results
    - paid is a yellow arrow
     
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    sadcox66 Spirit Walker

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    Thanks for the update.

    + By the way who owns alltheweb.com - I really liked them at one time.

    + Metacrawler is another one i use but there are so many SE's they are not a big player.

    + Just for information : I was rooting for Matt Dwells he wrote the awesome gigablast search engine but has not updated his blog for over a year
    http://www.gigablast.com/rants.html
    I am surprised his project has not taken off.
     
    sadcox66, Apr 16, 2005 IP
  5. Golgotha

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    Due to the overwhelming response, er 91 views and 1 response, I created a poll to make it easier for you to vote. So all you have to do is visit: http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp and click on the part that says "sorry, we're closed" and cast your vote. I really would like your input.

    thanks,
    Mark
     
    Golgotha, Apr 20, 2005 IP