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This website is interesting but I find many flaws in their logic AND I think it will be almost impossible for them to pull it off. Of the many flaws, the one t

This website is interesting but I find many flaws in their logic AND I think it will be almost impossible for them to pull it off. Of the many flaws, the one that stands out the most is that google's 4 line search result is useless(my summary of their viewpoint). Quote - "Like most of you, from the results above I can hardly tell if those websites are relevant to what I am looking for." If google's results were not the best people wouldn't use them. I will concede that google tailors the design of their results page so that it optimizes ad revenue but I won't concede that others have done a better job with different design. Bing has the exact same layout. While I do commend their effort I think it will be nearly impossible for them to compete from an algorithmic and CPU horsepower power point of view. Google has 15+ years of effort improving on their search algorithm and they have many billions of dollars worth of infrastructure that enable them to be the best at what they do. Could an open source(i.e. Linux) upstart come to compete against an entrenched market leader(i.e. Microsoft)? No. Linux didn't have the infrastructure overhead of making a world wide search engine.

Gpapa 13y ago
Snippets are a "tradition" used by coders since Search began. From a User point of view not very useful. Other Search Engines used them as well because they didnt innovate, they tried to imitate Yahoo and later Google (before that Natscape Navigator). For me the best example is the iPod click wheel. Who would have thought that the horizontal tape Recorder Buttons would ever be replaced...till Steve J. came and did it. Is the same with Search. Snippets are a tool of the past because the amjority of People think that if a corporation is doing it, it must be the right thing to do.The first ones to replace them will overtake Google and the rest. The CPU power is another Mythos. It can easily be distributed to Servers around the world. As a Commercial Company is this a nightmare. As a non Profit Network is another game. Google is interested in building User Profiles to sell them customised adds. Thats why they need gigantic storage space. We are not going down that path since we are not going to sell anything.We are rethinking Search from scratch without commercial thoughts in the back of our heads. And to our surprise we are finding many flaws. What we are proposing already existed but didnt survive because they were innovations ahead of their time. Now the Technology is here. Every day I am forced to use Windows 8, I curse the day Microsoft took out of Business all the better OS products in the 90ies. What worries me the most is the fact that the Linus Torvalds coder Generation is almost gone and one day we all will regret leting Google take over WWW.

Gpapa 13y ago

Snippets are a "tradition" used by coders since Search began. From a User point of view not very useful. Other Search Engines used them as well because they didnt innovate, they tried to imitate Yahoo and later Google (before that Natscape Navigator). For me the best example is the iPod click wheel. Who would have thought that the horizontal tape Recorder Buttons would ever be replaced...till Steve J. came and did it. Is the same with Search. Snippets are a tool of the past because the amjority of People think that if a corporation is doing it, it must be the right thing to do.The first ones to replace them will overtake Google and the rest. The CPU power is another Mythos. It can easily be distributed to Servers around the world. As a Commercial Company is this a nightmare. As a non Profit Network is another game. Google is interested in building User Profiles to sell them customised adds. Thats why they need gigantic storage space. We are not going down that path since we are not going to sell anything.We are rethinking Search from scratch without commercial thoughts in the back of our heads. And to our surprise we are finding many flaws. What we are proposing already existed but didnt survive because they were innovations ahead of their time. Now the Technology is here. Every day I am forced to use Windows 8, I curse the day Microsoft took out of Business all the better OS products in the 90ies. What worries me the most is the fact that the Linus Torvalds coder Generation is almost gone and one day we all will regret leting Google take over WWW.