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Casey Shaw and Chris Shaw

From Wednesday (yesterday) until Wednesday (next week), this is going to be quite a week on AltSearchEngines.  If you haven’t signed up for our RSS feed or email notifications, I encourage you to do that today so you don’t miss anything.  Otherwise, please keep checking in with us!
Yesterday:  We introduced a brand new search engine, [...]

Tuesdays on AltSearchEngines are reserved for those search engines willing to step out and engage in a little friendly debate with another “Alt” in their line of work.  Tonight we have an interesting new Vertical, Ticket Search engines, specifically Tickex (Dan Brinderson) and NinjaTickets (Cliff Mark).

1.  Could you summarize the difference between your search engine and, say, [...]

This week’s edition of Newsweek.com has an article entitled “Searching for the Best Engine” by David H. Freedman.  Here are some select quotes from it:
“Charles Knight, an analyst who runs the AltSearchEngines Web site, notes there’s a plethora of good ideas for what a third-generation engine might bring to the party, and no shortage of [...]

At 50 billion pages and growing, the sheer vastness of the Web makes search an indispensable entry point to the online world. Given this importance and prominence, why is search as we know it today so laborious, so impersonal, so inefficient, and, so boring?
The brand new alternative search engine NeXplore features a visually engaging, user-friendly, multi-media [...]