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Why Don’t We See Any New Search Engines?
Searching News Source: http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com
Story Found By: SEMSpot 1605 Days ago
Category: Searching
Has anyone else noticed that there are no “up and coming” search engines any more? Yeah, there’s Gigablast. But they don’t appear to be making substantial progress. Yandex picked up a lot of ground in Russia. But by and large, we haven’t seen any new search engines of any consequence in years.
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from SpostareDuro 1604 Days ago #
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I hadn’t thought of this til now! Stumbled. Sphunn.

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from nelisx 1604 Days ago #
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Google has reached Microsoft staus, creating a void in competition.  I mean, who has the resources to do it better than google right now? 

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1604 Days ago #
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Thank ya Spostare! (and SEMSpot for submitting it)@nelisx: You’re absolutely correct. And it’s a very unique marketing problem. Think about it. Microsoft HAS the resources(financially) to beat Google. It’s all about the brain drain. The quantity and quality of people needed would be next to impossible to find.

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from IncrediBILL 1604 Days ago #
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Check your log files some time and you’ll note a bunch of up and coming search junk.I actually blogged about one recently that’s VC backed in stealth mode that was showing signs of life and nobody cared.http://sphinn.com/story/11424Not to mention that there are <a href="http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-much-nutch-is-too-much-nutch.html">over 500 unique IPs running NUTCH</a> and some are actually fledgling SEs and universities tinkering with search.I could go on and on with other stuff I see, but sadly this time your hypothesis is incorrect.

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1604 Days ago #
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I’m well aware there are dozens of crawlers out there bill. Some from search engines. But mostly they are either niche engines, or just so tiny they have never made an impact. Due to the lack funding, and other issues that I talked about in the entry. Maybe someday searchme will prove me wrong, but not yet ;-)

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from IncrediBILL 1604 Days ago #
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There’s no lack of funding for search as I know of a few with either seed or full blown VC that are all hiding at the moment.I’d expect the truth is most of them probably suck which is why they aren’t public yet, if ever.

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from Sebastian 1604 Days ago #
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From what I see, M$ has the financial resources, but not the staff capable to build a major search engine. It’s interesting to watch a new search engine growing up, but (rant) it’s not exactly funny to suffer from their bullshit, respectively to recognize that they don’t send actual traffic but produce nothing except bogus bot activity (/rant). Ok Ok, that depends on the niche, but why the fuck do they send human traffic to slightly spammy porn and gambling sites but not a single visitor to pretentious stuff? Go figure ...

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from IncrediBILL 1603 Days ago #
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Here’s Wikia Search coming REAL soon:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVpozoN4SEv7fIbj-dSXBPinksWAD8TTR2T00

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