The Other Search Engines

**Harvey** · 05-30-2006, 04:49 PM

It's not perfect, but it's certainly interesting.

I like their concepts, I like the differences and with some tweaking I think this could be the next big thing. Unlike Google and all the rest, they've obviously done a huge amount of research and actually listen to what users have to say.

Good on them!

Snap.com

**vangogh** · 05-31-2006, 12:44 AM

Snap does seem like a pretty cool idea. Last night I came across another interesting concept. Yahoo has revived AllTheWeb with AllTheWeb Livesearch. It gives you related terms as you type and updates the results as you type more.

**Harvey** · 05-31-2006, 08:26 AM

So, do we think it's gonna be big?

Competitor for Google? Not impossible. Competitor for Ask Jeeves? Definately!

By the way, there's a fantastic competition going on here for the marketing launch contest of snap. Whilst it's a shame the worst ideas get plenty of publicity, it all makes very interesting reading.

By the way, if you want to vote for my ideas, they're here

**vangogh** · 05-31-2006, 04:21 PM

Well I doubt anyone will be knocking out the big 3 in search. Even AOL and Ask have a lot of work in front of them if they want to compete. I think there are enough people though who's rather find something different and there are a lot of niche search engines and general search engines offering more that many will survive just find.

I know I tend to use Google exclusively. Mostly because I'm familiar enough with how it works to always find what I'm looking for. I'm sure I could find what I'm looking for with any search engine though. As a webmaster and seo I'm naturally concerned most with the big 3 and figure I may as well use them so I can learn as much as I can.

There are a few smaller search engines, Snap included, that do look pretty interesting and I've been thinking of experimenting with them more just to see what they can do and if I think they can help me find things better or faster.