The New Search, as as the Old Search
I have now tried Wolfram Alpha and Bing, both leave me feeling unimpressed. Wolfram Alpha got a lot of press. I thought it would answer every questions I ever had. I cannot get the demographic breakdown of San Jose. It has yet to answer the questions I want answered. Either I am not asking right or it does not have the information. Either way I want to wait for Wolfram Beta or Wolfram 1.0.
Bing does not seem that different that Google to me. The answers are different, but no more relative. I rarely have found better information on Bing. It just seems stacked differently.
I know that everyone wants to beat Google. Google is on a pile of money because of search and people want some of that money. That is why they go after Google, but they are not doing a good job of it. I think that Google has lot of problems, but no one is doing any better on those.
Here are the things I want out of a good search.
1. Rank the authority of a source. I want to know how good the information is. I want to know what other people are saying about the sites. I did a search on home bases businesses. The top searches are people trying to sell home based businesses to me. I want information about which home based businesses are scams or not.
2. Make it easy for me to re-order a search on different rankings. There are more than one way to rank a search, let the users make some choices and give the search back to me.
Bing does not seem that different that Google to me. The answers are different, but no more relative. I rarely have found better information on Bing. It just seems stacked differently.
I know that everyone wants to beat Google. Google is on a pile of money because of search and people want some of that money. That is why they go after Google, but they are not doing a good job of it. I think that Google has lot of problems, but no one is doing any better on those.
Here are the things I want out of a good search.
1. Rank the authority of a source. I want to know how good the information is. I want to know what other people are saying about the sites. I did a search on home bases businesses. The top searches are people trying to sell home based businesses to me. I want information about which home based businesses are scams or not.
2. Make it easy for me to re-order a search on different rankings. There are more than one way to rank a search, let the users make some choices and give the search back to me.
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