teoma is a new search engine getting a lot of press today. It's not really new. I mentioned in on 7.24.01, but it is being re-launched after being bought out and retooled for the past many months. I think it is somebody from Rutgers, so maybe Linda knows something about it.
Anyway, I tried a few test searches and wasn't completely blown away. Probably I'll try some more.
Google did sort of let me down with the whole scientology issue, but I'm still firmly behind them. If they ever do go over to the dark side then we'll just build something else. It's such an interesting problem that I think there will always be very smart geeks itching to tackle it. Nobody is trying too hard right now just because google is so good. But you'd see action in this space very quickly if that wasn't the case. I'm not sure supporting second rate search engines is really going to help things very much.
The completely killer thing about google is that they cache everything! Can you imagine? This is what got them into trouble with the scientologists (who could argue that they are an ISP because of the cache and then hit them with the DMCA.) Nobody else is going to do this while google is already doing it. It's just too big a job, and google has too much of a head start. But if they slip up somebody else will step in.
In general I agree with the bio-diversity angle, except it's not always good for large scale technology projects. If there were competing space programs would we have gotten to the moon faster? Some things are so big that it makes sense to put all your eggs in one basket. Maybe.
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Anyway, I tried a few test searches and wasn't completely blown away. Probably I'll try some more.
Google did sort of let me down with the whole scientology issue, but I'm still firmly behind them. If they ever do go over to the dark side then we'll just build something else. It's such an interesting problem that I think there will always be very smart geeks itching to tackle it. Nobody is trying too hard right now just because google is so good. But you'd see action in this space very quickly if that wasn't the case. I'm not sure supporting second rate search engines is really going to help things very much.
The completely killer thing about google is that they cache everything! Can you imagine? This is what got them into trouble with the scientologists (who could argue that they are an ISP because of the cache and then hit them with the DMCA.) Nobody else is going to do this while google is already doing it. It's just too big a job, and google has too much of a head start. But if they slip up somebody else will step in.
In general I agree with the bio-diversity angle, except it's not always good for large scale technology projects. If there were competing space programs would we have gotten to the moon faster? Some things are so big that it makes sense to put all your eggs in one basket. Maybe.
- jim 4-01-2002 5:22 pm