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 did

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.