Posts Tagged ‘anti-google’


26.06.2007

A foxmark search engine on the horizon

posted by Karsten

in RedGloo

Kapor (who invented lotus 1-2-3) is, according to http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/25/mitch-kapors-foxmarks-to-lea , working on a new search engine. It uses foxmarks as the backbone, another Kapor creation which enables uses to store their firefox bookmarks in one place, but use them on many computers, so sort of a MeAggregator™ of bookmarks.

According to the article the searches that they tested on the prototype system was amazing. I definitely have to watch this development in my own quest to find an alternative search engine to google.

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21.06.2007

The “evil” google

posted by Karsten

in RedGloo

Every time something becomes too big, I get the creeps. Call me neurotic if you like, its just how I am…

At the moment I really do not like that google almost has monopoly on my search results. Especially now that they are looking at buying doubleclick which would give them almost 360 view of me as an Internet individual.

So I'm on a mission to find other means of "googling"! I've tried my old favorite altavista but really don't like it, and yahoo is too structured and commercialised for my liking, although they do great radio and games though 😉 Ask.com doesn't really work for either, without knowing exactly why…

This morning I discovered clusty which clusters the search results from other search engines in tabs depending on the topics of the pages. The cluster algorithm seems really "clever", and I will be testing it for a while now. I've even downloaded their firefox plug-in, so I'm serious!

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