PDA

View Full Version : Google Alerternative?



GCT13
12-01-2003, 09:23 PM
Since 'tis the season of Google Hysteria, is there another search engine out there that is better?

Is there a true search engine alternative that returns superior relavant results?

incka
12-02-2003, 12:37 AM
AllTheWeb is quite good - but it does have alot of spam results.

chromate
12-02-2003, 03:03 AM
I find AltaVista's better at the moment.

Chris
12-02-2003, 08:43 AM
What about Teoma?

Mike
12-02-2003, 09:49 AM
does anyone know how any of those three search engines mentioned list sites? for backward links like google, or...?

Chris
12-02-2003, 01:10 PM
Most search engines use similar ranking algorithms. They all involve incoming links to an extent.

GCT13
12-02-2003, 01:57 PM
Has anyone every heard of or know anything about-

http://www.gigablast.com/

http://www.ixquick.com/

Percept
12-02-2003, 02:12 PM
Originally posted by GCT13
Has anyone every heard of or know anything about-

http://www.gigablast.com/

http://www.ixquick.com/

I found gigblast a week ago and submited , my website ( not percept.be ) now ranks on the first 40 results for all my 3 keywords. 2 out of 3 in the first 5 results even.

Probably won't bring much traffic though. ;)

GCT13
12-02-2003, 02:35 PM
Yes, I also have some jaw-dropping rankings on GigaBlast.

GCT13
12-02-2003, 02:57 PM
Interesting reading in Gigablast's "About" page- http://www.gigablast.com/about.html

Gigablast is a one-man operation (!).

A quote from the proprietor:

But as far as what is different from the user's perspective, I think Gigablast's scoring algorithms give less emphasis to links as other engines. I did this on purpose so new sites are not at as much a disadvantage as more established sites that have a large number of incoming links. This is why I chose the catch-phrase "Search the web from a different angle" to be displayed on the front page.

Another major difference is that Gigablast is the only large engine, to my knowledge, to ever do continuous updating and refreshing of the index in real-time. You can also add and update your URLs in real-time, too. I think Gigablast is the only large engine right now that allows that. Everybody else charges money and calls it "paid inclusion."
- from this article (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3080321).

He also has a blog (http://www.gigablast.com/rants.html). Ever wonder the trials and tribulations of running an internet search engine? Read that sucker.

From the blog:

I am planning on purchasing the hardware required for achieving a 5 billion document index capable of serving hundreds of queries per second within the next 12 months. Wish me luck... and thanks for using Gigablast.

s2kinteg916
12-02-2003, 03:22 PM
his site is pretty awesome

Mike
12-02-2003, 03:44 PM
May I ask how you found gigablast? Just as i've never heard of it and wondered how small search engines get noticed.

lo0ol
12-02-2003, 04:20 PM
That is rather amazing. One man doing all that. I don't really know what else to say except "egad".

It's also fun seeing how many sites are updated- you can see it in real time by refreshing the front page.

lo0ol
12-02-2003, 04:23 PM
Heh, an interesting way to promote his site:

http://www.gigablast.com/gigaboost.html

Too bad Google doesn't add PR if you link to them. :\

GCT13
12-02-2003, 04:46 PM
Originally posted by Mike
May I ask how you found gigablast? Just as i've never heard of it and wondered how small search engines get noticed. It was a referral to one of my sites.

http://www.gigablast.com/search?q=portable+dvd+player+reviews

johnn
12-02-2003, 04:48 PM
Teoma or ask.com has been crawlled my five-months-old site for about 4 months ago. I got no traffic from it until just after Thanksgiving. Now, it accounts for about 5 % or more traffic (just after google and yahoo). Good grief! I've been thinking about banning teoma some months ago because it's using too much bandwidth and crawling months after months doing nothing was weird :D

ozgression
12-02-2003, 04:56 PM
I've known of GigaBlast for a while now (over a year, atleast). However, to my knowledge, I've never received any traffic from them.
________
buy silversurfer vaporizer (http://vaporizer.org/reviews/silver-surfer)