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AltSearchEngines and last100 Go Indie
Admin announcement: ReadWriteWeb has made a strategic decision to disband our network, meaning that our two separately branded network blogs AltSearchEngines and last100 are going independent.
The reason ReadWriteWeb has made this decision is to focus on building and extending our core ReadWriteWeb brand. The first fruits of this strategy were the Enterprise Channel (launched in August) and our new Jobwire product (launched last week). We have more channels and products in the pipeline.
Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
An alternative search engine launched last night. It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cuil out and had a mixed user experience, as did most of the commenters in the post. So it's a pretty average search engine, although like many before it Cuil claims to be a Google competitor. But why did it get so much PR upon launch? The results showed that Cuil is no different to the hundreds of alternative search engines we track every day.
Cuil: Good, But Not Great
Last night, the new search engine Cuil launched out of stealth-mode. As some had predicted, it seems Google's announcement about the size of its search index was a preemptive move to take some momentum away from one of Cuil's main features: the size of its index with 120 billion pages. As Cuil's team features quite a number of Google alumni, comparisons with Google's search are inevitable. In our tests, however, Cuil performed nowhere near as well as Google.
Google Now Knows About 1 Trillion Pages
Google today announced that it is now indexing the amazing amount of 1 trillion unique URLs. Google's first index in 1998 only had 26 million pages and by 2000 that number had jumped to 1 billion. Today, the Google index is growing by several billion pages per day alone. Not too long ago, Google used to have a counter on the front page of its search engine, displaying the number of sites in the index, but they dropped this information from the site around 2005.
Yahoo Announces Winners of SearchMonkey Developer Challenge
When Yahoo announced Search Monkey, its developer platform for search, it also announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge, which was going to reward the best search extensions based on SearchMonkey. Today, Yahoo announced the winners: StumbleUpon, BooRah, computer scientist Greg Schechter, and David Hickley from GEDview.com. The grand prize of $10,000 went to Marco Vitanza, for his Blogspot Infobar.
Happy Anniversary AltSearchEngines
On Monday, June 2, RWW network blog AltSearchEngines will be celebrating its one year anniversary with a post-a-thon! There will be one post every hour for 24 hours announcing...
NEW relaunch of our forums!
NEW AltSearchEngines conference!
NEW Top 100 Alts list for June 2008! [more after the fold]
Alternative Search Engines Day - Call For Alts to Band Together
I'm at the Alternative Search Engines Day, in San Francisco, an event put on by our network blog AltSearchEngines. We started out with a keynote talk by ASE editor Charles Knight, who noted that alternative search engines only have about 1.7% market share combined. He thinks this is too small, so he wants all of the "alts" - you can see a list of them on our subsite The Search Race - to band together to make a bigger impact on the search market.
AltSearchEngines Get Together: Monday 21 April, San Francisco
Our network blog AltSearchEngines is holding an invitation only gathering of search engines on Monday 21 April, in San Francisco. This private event, called simply the AltSearchEngines Get Together is being held the day before the Web 2.0 Expo. The event is targeted at the hundreds of alternative search engines that Charles Knight covers, so that they can meet and mix. More details below. If you're a search startup and/or a reporter interested in this niche, please contact Charles Knight to request an invite.
Announcing: The Search Race
Our network blog AltSearchEngines has just launched a great new sub-site, called The Search Race. It is a brand new format for the monthly Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, starting with the April list today. The Search Race is a fully linked version of the Top 100, a long-requested feature. But even better, the community can vote for and rank the Top 100! You can also submit new alt search engines, comment on them, etc. Check The Search Race out, it is very impressive. It's also a nice complement to today's Day Without Google, in which you are encouraged to try out new search engines for the day.
April 1st, The Annual Day Without Google - Can You Live Without It For One Day?
Our network blog has just announced an annual 'Day Without Google', starting tomorrow April 1st. ASE editor Charles Knight writes: "All we’re asking is that for One Day you try one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines". He implores us to "Choose one, choose several, but for One Day give the Alternative search engines a fighting chance and see what life would be like without Google." He also hastens to add that ASE "is not anti-Google", they just want us to explore alternatives. It's a great idea, however for some of us it will impact our daily work...
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