Comments on: Search Engines, Brand and Inertia http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/08/21/Search-Engines-Brand-and-Inertia/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Greg http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/08/21/Search-Engines-Brand-and-Inertia/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Wed, 18 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-165 Aside from something like Grokker (or Dogpiles "missing pieces" interface) there's nothing radical in the works; it's all going to be incremental.

However, I think things like Furl and Yahoo's MyWeb are pretty cool and useful.

]]> By: Justin Gardner http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2005/08/21/Search-Engines-Brand-and-Inertia/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Thu, 05 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-164 Great post. I've been following this trend for my company and it definitely seems to be true. However, I think Google was SO good in the past, that now everybody has finally caught up, and it seems like they're getting worse. Perhaps I'm wrong, but this feels like it's a more likely scenario.

What's great is we finally have an atmosphere where all the search engines are equal, possibly even the little ones, so you can search any of them and find equally usable results. I use Gigablast quite a bit for finding what I need. Sometimes I use IceRocket and Snap. And I would say 9 times out of 10 I find exactly what I'm looking for. Try it for a week and see if it works for you.

The question then remains, what's next? Personalization? Hmm…well, that's pretty uninspiring. Let's hope they shock us again and come out with something truly innovative.

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