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First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2007-06-14, 16:23

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Well I remember those days of "search engine craze". Google was still relatively unknown, but we had Yahoo, Hotbot, MSN, Altavista.....

But just recently, a friend just pointed me this. Yup, it's called Exalead --another search engine.

Well, I just wonder though: is there still any significant differentiating factor between one search engine and another? Anyone has ever heard about thjis "Exalead"? What does it have to differentiate itself from Google?

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Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-06-14, 16:32

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A crappy name I can't remember?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exalead

Those crazy french.

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Reply 2 of 4, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2007-06-14, 16:44

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Well, the "narrowing the search" panel on the upper left is actually pretty neat, although some of the sections seems to be redundant (there are already video and image search on Google anyway).

But new features aside, is there anything that can really, significantly differentiate a search engine today, especially when we're talking about mindshare?

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Reply 3 of 4, by dh4rm4

Posted on 2007-06-14, 16:55

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No. Basically Google will win. Even MS's Live with integrated GPS mapping won't make it a viable option as most people recognise Google by name globally. Yahoo might survive in the longer term but that will only be due tight service integration with third party streaming providers and their own email/chat client branding. The merger with MSN will only kill MSN in the long term as people distrust MS more than any other brand...

Reply 4 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-06-14, 16:59

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Damn straight.

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