Searching for another search engine…
27
May
08
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.
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