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OK, so Google is king in the UK. Stats from Hitwise show that, based on UK Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending April 26, 2008 Google.co.uk had 74% of the market and google.com had 13.8%. That’s a whooping 87% in total.

They are a like Connor McCloud from the Clan McCloud in Highlander - they have beheaded everyone else. There can be only one.

But… why don’t you check out ‘clustering search engines’ - Google is prehistorically one dimensional. When you search on Google, you see the results as a list - a long, long, long list of webpages. But we all know that the Web is more like a spider’s web don’t we? It’s three-dimensional, with links between pages everywhere. The Clustering Search Engines are leading the way towards that reality, by making two-dimensional (X-Y) maps of the results. Want to see one? Check out Quintura.