On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Try throwing the keyword "Apple" in Google and DuckDuckGo and feel the > > difference !! > > excellent example > I do not think so; people do not generally search for single terms, and even if they do, how many times do you think people google for apple with the fruit in mind, most of the cases it is 'apple' as in a company. Cognitive sciences and psychology affect technology a lot; and companies which take advantage of this would be the winner. Google is a verb now ; any search engine to enter into this space and gain the marketshare has to have a significant value add, and i do not see any of the existing ones to be comparable with that of Google. There can be search engines related to niche areas which present data in a different way - but note that here the stress would be more on the 'presentation layer' as the UI has to be tweaked according to the audience's interest(for eg. patents, lawsuits, genomes, census data) (generation of suitable metadata for indexes etc is implied). DDG is good, but not great. Do I like it? Yes(esp the Duck). Will I use it? No. -V http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
