Monday, June 04, 2007

New Ask.com and the alternative search engines invasion

Everybody is talking about the relaunch of Ask.com.
I won't go into tech details, but I had a quick look and it lloks pretty impressive as long as having complete and nicely presented results is your concern.
Just compare a search for Think Different on Google vs the same on Ask.
While Google seems to guide you to the first (and reliably best) result, Ask gives you a much more granular (though easily and beautifully showed) information that you have to read and decode.

There has been a lot of buzz in alternative search engine these days with the alpha release of Jason Calacanis' Mahalo (a Google-Wikipedia hybrid that still doesn't impress me) and now with Read/Write Web that is even dedicating a new indipendent site to this subject.

Me? I guess I'll stick with Google for the time being but will definitely give Ask a try now and then!

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