Starring Exalead

and SurfCanyon

What are the weaknesses of the major search engines that you are trying to overcome?

In 2007, we conducted a study with 1000 Internet users, and we learned that 1 in 5 users felt overwhelmed by the volume of results their searches returned, and that 1 in 2 users never ventured beyond the first […]

Tuesdays on AltSearchEngines we host our Debates, and this week we are pleased to welcome Yannick Laclau of Properazzi and Gary Stewart, CEO of Migoa/Nuroa.  This debate expands upon our earlier interview with Yannik.

1.  Vertical search engines really seem to be taking off, can you just summarize a few of the challenges that are unique […]

Tonight’s debate is on the topic of consumer electronics search engines.  Our participants are Robb with Retrevo and Syed from ShoppingVale.
 1.  A consumer wants to buy their spouse a digital camera for Christmas.
Why should they go to your search engine instead of a major search engine or a store’s website?
Each has different problems so let […]

Tonight’s debate is an especially interesting one.  Rather than pair up two Alts in the same Vertical, it was suggested (I forget by whom) to compare and contrast two different approaches to general search - Tabbed metasearch represented by Boris from Zuula - a Top 100 Alt since Day 1 (and always the last!) and […]

Every Tuesday night on AltSearchEngines, we invite two vertical search engines to discuss the similarities and differences with their projects.  Tonight is one of the most interesting ones that we have ever had - the exotic (to me) world of Arabic / English search engines featuring two very respected search engines: Onkosh and Tayait.

1) For all […]