Revolutionizing the Way We Search
In this age of information, people are constantly finding new ways to find the information they need as fast and as specific as possible.
There was a time where Yahoo! search engine rulez, until Google came along with a supposedly better algorithm and most importantly a more specialized service, that is, search engine. Who cares about all the news in entertainment, sports, etc that you see when you open up Yahoo! when you already know in mind that you are searching for a way to set up your home networking for example. This is where Google has the advantage, service specialization. Those are also the reasons why Google is now the new “king of search engine”.
Current Yahoo! and Google interface comparison
Just when you think the search engine war is over, well it is not. Web 2.0 startup companies focusing on the way we do searches are mushrooming. KartOO for example is showing your search result as a cluster of icons. Ujiko is giving you the ability to customize your search by marking the sites you like or dislike. For those that thinks Google is not accurate enough, Rollyo allows you to customize your search on the fly. What more can there be? Well today I just found out Yahoo! is doing a good move to regain the “king of search engine” status by releasing the “Alpha beta Search” (not sure what it is called), where images from Flickr photos, Youtube videos, Wikipedia, etc along with the usual search results all show on the same page. Pretty cool stuff.
KartOO, Ujiko, and Rollyo interfaces respectively.
Yahoo! Alpha Interface
Well the moral of the story is that live is full of ups and downs. You can’t always be on top. Whether or not any of this new search theory will overtake Google has yet to be seen. But unless Google keeps on improving their main traffic driver (maybe along with AdSense), one of these days, somebody will dethrone them.