Alternative search engines

The search engine market is dominated by Google – the fastest and most comprehensive search engine provider. Bing/Yahoo have been attempting to widen or at least keep their share in the market. Bing is working with the same mechanisms as Google, but does still not provide instant search. Yahoo uses now also Google-technology and has a business model similar to Bing and Google. Time and again there are several approaches to break into the dominance of Google, but most often this is doomed to failure because of the absence of a long lasting business model.

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Alternative search engine approaches in the last ten years

A radical new approach for an alternative search engine can include elements from social search, social bookmarking, semantic search, graph search and social networking, if they are being combined in a new, innovative approach. Continue reading Alternative search engine approaches in the last ten years