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  • Marshmallowman
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 3416

    #1

    New search engine



    based on opens source solutions.

    Since google is floating and is just starting to get a little suspect (paid placements), this could be a nice oportuntiy to try an open search engine.
  • VJ
    Moderator
    • Mar 2001
    • 9733

    #2
    Slightly on topic:
    I found this search-engine:
    Vivisimo was an innovative technology company founded in 2000 by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Raúl Valdés-Pérez, Jerome Pesenti, and Chris Palmer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Specializing in advanced search engine and document clustering technologies, Vivisimo developed software that transformed how organizations access and analyze vast amounts of information.


    Results are clustered, sometimes with quite good results.


    Jörg
    pixar
    Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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    • isochar
      Super MURCer
      • Nov 1999
      • 1113

      #3
      Vivisimo clusters Google results, so it doesn't provide the same benefit that the open source one does.

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      • dbdg
        Super MURCer
        • Sep 1999
        • 1030

        #4
        I like any engine that lists my Page in the top three when I search for "3D Gallery".

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        • magician
          MURCer
          • Nov 2000
          • 132

          #5
          No offense, but this Mozdex sux big time. I've searched key word sequence "frame buffer matrox Linux" and it gave me 18 results compared with Google's 11,500. Even Vivisimo had score better with 150 much punctual results.

          So yet again... nice try. Sorry.

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          • High_Jumbllama
            Super MURCer
            • Dec 1999
            • 4522

            #6
            That's because it is newer. It will get better as it ages from a larger number of submitted links as is the case with any newer search engine.

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            • Wombat
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 9498

              #7
              Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
              That's because it is newer. It will get better as it ages from a larger number of submitted links as is the case with any newer search engine.
              Yes and no. Mozdex's own FAQ says that they're hoping to get up to 100,000,000 pages, and they're going at the rate of 8,000,000/day.

              Google, on the other hand, currently has an index of 4,285,199,774 pages, 42 times larger than Mozdex even desires to grow to.
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              • Wombat
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 2000
                • 9498

                #8
                Originally posted by magician
                No offense, but this Mozdex sux big time. I've searched key word sequence "frame buffer matrox Linux" and it gave me 18 results compared with Google's 11,500. Even Vivisimo had score better with 150 much punctual results.

                So yet again... nice try. Sorry.
                More results does not mean more relevant results. Try searching for google for info on, say, a specific cell phone. 95 out of the top 100 links will be pages trying to sell you the phone.
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                • rylan
                  Super MURCer
                  • Sep 1999
                  • 2347

                  #9
                  Google is still by far the best

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                  • Wombat
                    Super MURCer
                    • Aug 2000
                    • 9498

                    #10
                    For now. Lately people have gotten really good at fooling PageRank. It's becoming less useful all the time.
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                    • az
                      Moderator
                      • Feb 2001
                      • 9336

                      #11
                      Exactly. In germany, it's useless to use google to search for ANYTHING that can be bought, because almost all top links are ebay redirectors.

                      AZ
                      There's an Opera in my macbook.

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