GOOGLE IS GOD OF THE INTERNET
Having had a website and a domain name at the inception of the Internet was really cool. That's when static HTML web pages was state of the art. But then, the boom started, suddenly there were dynamic websites all over the net, with animated graphics and java applets.
Search engines then, were mundane, Jeeves, Lycos, Altavista and Hotbot was making a name for themselves and Yahoo Inc. was king of the hill. Meanwhile thousands of people were earning millions of dollars with dot-coms and e-trade. Then came the crash. Hardly a year later e-commerce sites prang-up all over the net and Google Inc. was the new kid on the block... Google has grown from strength to strength and as a 10 year old, provides untold amounts of online applications from Web hosting, to Web and Image search to Google Maps and Satellite Imagery to mention only but a few of its substantial array of offerings
However the 14 year old Yahoo has been out-stripped, out-competed, out-played, out-done, even tough, it provides similar services and a substantial amount of them at that, but certainly not as many as its chief competitor Google, who is not only hailed as king of the search engines but also god of the Internet. Despite its dominance now, there will be other search engines wanting to be king of the hill. FOR FREE TICKETS to the EXPO!
In the flanks, Live Search/MSN was doings its thing and made a play to grab Yahoo, but Bill G just got an earful from Jerry Y instead. Websites have improved, PHP, ASP and JSP is abound, with some sites are flaunting amazing Flash and Ajax technologies. Online shopping is outdoing conventional shopping, bandwidth is getting cheaper and the Internet is growing daily.
Meanwhile search engines has taken on specific rolls like, Jobs search, Property search, News search, People search etc... and the race for the best search engined continues. Jeeves had swallowed Hotbot and changed its name to Ask.com, Lycos became Lycos Inc., Altavista became the property of Yahoo and InfoSpace the owners of Exite and the WebCrawler Metasearch engine bought Dogpile, another metasearch engine.
But that's just the beginning. Enter the latest and newest in search engines, OneRiot, Hakia, Kosmix, Searchme, Twine, Cuil, Topsy, TweetMeme, and not forgetting Bing. Bing is Microsoft's New Search Engine (old Live Search/MSN) and its not bad at all, it has a very clean interface, really visually appealing and presentation is excellent. I think its destined to give Google a run for its money. Searchme is a multimedia search engine and appears to be much faster than Google whereas Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine, which can do stuff that Google can't. I predict there will soon be much controversy and speculation as to which the best is among the search engines. At the moment Searchme is my personal favorite.
However, the latest nerdytoys are metesearch engines, it has become the latest craze, because they deliver the most comprehensive and relevant results in one place. Dogpile is currently producing better results than Google. The cool thing about metasearch engines is, they search the leading search engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask simultaneously and deliver the best combined results for any search. So, is googling going to give way to engining? What say you?
Here are some Metasearch engines to try out!
- Dogpile - is my personal favorite.
- MetaCrawler
- Polycola
- WebFetch
- InfoSpace
