We’re Ready For The Next Best Search Engine.
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by in Tech
Having used Google extensively since the late 90’s (switching from Altavista no less) I firmly believe that the world really needs another great search engine, with a fresh index and a dynamic new algorithm. Why you ask?
Google prioritizes aged domains and websites - This is incredibly frustrating when searching for upto date information, this is in my opinion, the single biggest flaw in Google’s technology. More often than not you will find the top 3 results will be Googles “authoritative” websites, sites that have been around and indexed forever. Most times these sites will be archaic, badly designed and seriously lack substantial updates of any kind. Google tackled this issue with the introduction of “Universal search” which placed relevant news, blogs and videos peppered in with the usual top 10 results. The problem with this is it doesn’t seem to work very well. There are hundreds of thousands of reputable real estate blogs out there with solid content, fresh opinions and great conversations going on. I never seem to see these blogs on any real estate search term as a universal result.
As a webmaster and SEO guy, I understand Google’s reasoning behind prioritizing trusted websites but I really feel its time to introduce more relevant, upto date information into the front page of Google’s results. How cool would it be do do a local real estate based Google search and see results from everywhere of relevance, like trending tweets, facebook groups, recent blog posts (not just the generic link to the blogs domain) and so much more.
While the Internet keeps evolving at a lightning fast pace, We need a search tool that’s not manipulated by SEO’s, that returns upto date and relevant results and that doesn’t reserve its top 5 placements to 10 year old sites that were made in front page 98. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for bing, if they can work on the suggestion system and polish the result preview pane the could easily become a major player in the search market.
What do you think?
Tyler
Aug 7th, 2009
I will have to respectfully disagree. I have tried playing with Bing a few different times, only to get frustrated with the results that came up and moved back to Google to find what I needed. Google may do some annoying things, but Bing has been just plain unimpressive (though pretty).
Sy
Aug 7th, 2009
Bing’s biggest flaw imo is the suggestion system. Instead of just displaying relevant results, it mixes in a whole bunch of suggestions meaning there’s only room for 3-4 relevant results on the page (instead of 10 at google)
Even if its not Bing, we need an alternative. so tired of 10+ year old sites with 10+ year old content outranking fresh content, purely based on the age of domain.
Yes, Google is king, for now.