Comments on: The Search Engine Showdown http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-search-engine-showdown/1229/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:28:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Doug Pederson http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-search-engine-showdown/1229/comment-page-1/#comment-87947 Doug Pederson Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:16:19 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=1229#comment-87947 What about a Desktop Search Engine Showdown. In front of a live audience. (Or Net Video?) Desktop Search and Net Search are from opposite ends of the search spectrum. They won't do well on the desktop. My Spectate Swamp Search engine will be hard to beat. The interface is simple but incomplete. It does do everything I need and fast. (Keyboard friendly) My First demonstration ---------------------- Random, Slow-Motion and Freeze-Frame for Video. Pick a random video clip Then a random start point in that video. Then play for a few seconds in slow motion. Then freeze for a few more seconds on the final frame. Then another and another. I have lots of video 3 yrs+ Trapline, Riverboats, White Crow, Strange stones My Second demonstration ----------------------- will be. Oldie black and white family pictures at high speed, With and without captioning. I might even do a video version of these. Where I narrate? Large font scrolling text for fun. It's also a notepad app. If you search you need to store text as well. . . They will need their best techies to go head to head with this Search. What about a Desktop Search Engine Showdown.

In front of a live audience. (Or Net Video?)

Desktop Search and Net Search are from opposite ends of the
search spectrum. They won’t do well on the desktop.

My Spectate Swamp Search engine will be hard to beat.
The interface is simple but incomplete.
It does do everything I need and fast. (Keyboard friendly)

My First demonstration
———————-
Random, Slow-Motion and Freeze-Frame for Video.

Pick a random video clip Then a random start point in that video.
Then play for a few seconds in slow motion. Then freeze for a few
more seconds on the final frame. Then another and another. I have
lots of video 3 yrs+ Trapline, Riverboats, White Crow, Strange stones

My Second demonstration
———————–
will be. Oldie black and white family
pictures at high speed, With and without captioning. I might
even do a video version of these. Where I narrate?

Large font scrolling text for fun.

It’s also a notepad app. If you search you need to store text as well.

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They will need their best techies to go head to head with this Search.

]]> By: Hock http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-search-engine-showdown/1229/comment-page-1/#comment-33517 Hock Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:20:54 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=1229#comment-33517 Here's another search engine I looked at: Mamma (claims to be the 'Mother of All Search Engines') • Search time was not posted but was quite fast. • The search yielded only 52 results. • There were a couple of irrelevant results. • The look of the site was clean. • Has a 'refine the search' listing relevant phrases Here’s another search engine I looked at:

Mamma (claims to be the ‘Mother of All Search Engines’)

• Search time was not posted but was quite fast.
• The search yielded only 52 results.
• There were a couple of irrelevant results.
• The look of the site was clean.
• Has a ‘refine the search’ listing relevant phrases

]]> By: Traian http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-search-engine-showdown/1229/comment-page-1/#comment-31061 Traian Sat, 08 Jan 2005 15:39:04 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=1229#comment-31061 You tested on "real estate fiji" and got relevant search results from most of the search engines. This does not come as a surprise! Relevant results mean in any case that the sites will be selling something. Try searching for just "fiji" and see how many relevant results do you get? At what degree have the search results been spammed by people trying to sell something? What search engine actually provides a nice page containing information about fiji, what is fiji, fiji culture&traditions, blah blah blah...... Or all the search results on this one were also spammed by hotels, real estates, travel agencies..... You get the idea. To me, a good search engine is a spam-resistent one. I mean the search engine that on its first page will be able to show the least number of commecial site and most of the sites he display will be informational. That's the winnner! You tested on “real estate fiji” and got relevant search results from most of the search engines. This does not come as a surprise! Relevant results mean in any case that the sites will be selling something.

Try searching for just “fiji” and see how many relevant results do you get? At what degree have the search results been spammed by people trying to sell something? What search engine actually provides a nice page containing information about fiji, what is fiji, fiji culture&traditions, blah blah blah…… Or all the search results on this one were also spammed by hotels, real estates, travel agencies….. You get the idea.

To me, a good search engine is a spam-resistent one. I mean the search engine that on its first page will be able to show the least number of commecial site and most of the sites he display will be informational. That’s the winnner!

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