Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

Re:Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? by colinplamondon on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:43PM (#315206)

Highly relevant results for the band I entered, but not enough to make me want to switch from Google.

It's not that you aren't good, it's just that you aren't great- there's nothing here that would make me want to purposefully break a habit formed over the past seven odd years. Namely, using Google.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? by nostrademons on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:59PM (#315228)

I wonder if search has become a commodity, and the reason why Google dominates isn't because of its search engine, it's because of its brand name. Search actually seems a lot like the food industry in that you can't really judge the quality of the product beyond a certain level, yet you care deeply about that quality. Those industries usually tend to become branding plays, not technology plays.

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Re:Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine? by Jasber on Thursday September 25, 2008 @03:19PM (#315252)

Google's brand does influence its search results. I recall the MSN Live team put the Google logo above their results and people automatically perceived them as more relevant even though the results had not changed.

After much Googling the closest I could come to finding the article was here (at the bottom): http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3601751

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