I'm so tired of getting crap results from Google. Don't get me wrong, there was a period where Google search was just fantastic, but then keywords and paid ads started becoming more important than good results. That in combination with everyone scrambling to googelize their content creates pages and pages of results with regurgitated, dumbed down content. I do think that Google coming out and sorting the Internet in the early 2000s was a great step forward, but it does bother me that their overall indexing really boils down to popular = good.
With a smaller, less mailable Internet, maybe popular sites should be displayed higher on results, but now that everyone can self promote and blog and twitter themselves to higher rankings don't we need a new way to determine results? If the tool used for search is no longer a neutral observer, but more of an influence on the results (content) then don't we need a new tool?
I'm excited about a few new search tools coming out, and I hope that Google doesn't just use it's massive power to crush any new voices in search.
Not out yet, but here is a quote from Physorg.com
A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking them up in a large database, as Google and many other search engines currently do. With its computational abilities, Wolfram Alpha could lead to new types of questions, answers and computations that today's search engines can't handle
Been around for a while and it's getting better. I didn't like it at first, but I do like their privacy policy.
"when you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies"
Interesting concept, it's a search engine but focused on learning and writing with a deeper focus on History, Literature, Poetry and so on.
Searches the web in "realtime". It give s you a glimpse of trends in social. I think there are a few of these, but I like the simple layout.
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