useful links:

Some links which may be interesting.
Search engine watch:
search tips
http://searchenginestrategies
diff search agents list
Google analysis day.

small variors

There are many small search agents which are contributing for community.
The useful list of small varriors can be seen at: search engine watch

search-war

search-war

King has entered in the war

The search-engine war has taken a new new turn. Now the king (Bill Gates) has been entered. Now big emporers are in the field. The Google is not going to have its monopoly. Yahoo! woke up very late after loosing it's major amount of users. Amazon has comeup with A9.com in the field. MSN has launched it's search.
Google is comming with new things every week. It has recently launched Google Maps. Google local is not old. it has made it's image database much larger. A9 has come up with innovative yellow pages. Teoma is already there taken by askjeevas.

So the war has just started. It has to go long. Anyway users are going to get the great benefits from this war. But..., to choose a single search engine is not an easy task. Better to go to a search engine which suits with your need. A single search engine is not able to solve all types of problems.
I used to use different engines for diff. needs. But most of the time google is my choice, teoma is also in my list. But A9 has its own style and I realy like that.

Recently yahoo has come up with contextual search. This idea was in research papers only yet. Yahoo is the one which came up first with this implementation and they have came with nice idea of taking the context from the page you are reading. I like that.

Now every team is looking for new ideas and they are dying to get new peoples having great ideas.
There are diifferent types of teams in the field. Google has the best people it can have(Google has more # of PhDs then microsoft.), Yahoo has experience, and Microsoft has power, A9 has its own setup of datamining from amazon. So friends lets see what happens when Google's confidance will challange MSN's power and how Yahoo!'s experience will take advantage over it, where A9 is silentely trying to capture the field.....................
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