There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer

Re:There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer by prawn on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @09:16PM (#729235)

IMO, on search and presentation of results, Google can be beaten.

I just do not believe that what they have there now is the best that can be achieved in this field. It's plain, makes limited use of colour to provide more information about results (is this page for a business, is it a forum, is it a MFA info site, is it a blog, or a mailing list archive?), gets pretty messy once the top and side ad positions are full, may rely too much on the title tag in presenting results, could provide larger targets for paging, etc.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer by alain94040 on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @12:08AM (#729430)

Fully agree. And it's also almost impossible for Google to change their presentation, because they would immediately confuse millions of users.

This is a weakness that can be exploited by a new competitor. Cuil did some work in that area, it was promising.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer by ErrantX on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @04:54AM (#729709)

all the attempts to provide "richer" results have failed pretty badly though. that should be telling.

I prefer googles "raw" results - it leaves the processing to my brain rather than a computer :)

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