[Tfug] OT:Any Free Search Engines?

[keith smith]

Interesting perspective.  If this were true optimizing a site for the search engines would be impossible.  I have worked on three sites that have made it onto the first page for targeted terms, real terms that people search for, and are getting traffic from Google.

Google is about relevancy.  



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Keith Smith


--- On Thu, 5/7/09, Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:

> From: Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com>
> Subject: [Tfug] OT:Any Free Search Engines?
> To: "tfug at tfug.org" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 6:32 PM
> 
> I googled "Beethoven 3 mp3 download" and other combinations
> including other words like, "free, scherzo," etc. thinking
> that there would be many many versions, all over the world,
> of one of Beethoven's most popular compositions -and that I
> would be able to download legally for FREE.  I imagined
> high schools, universities, and other entities would have
> legally produced and uploaded their versions.
> 
> However I found NONE.
> 
> It occurred to me that maybe Google has already sold so
> much of its "soul", and had already so many commitments,
> that the first 10,000 hits were all, in some way, paying
> Google customers, or vice versa.  And that now, much of
> the search space is saturated with Googloids, and doing a
> real search for information on the internet using Google is
> hardly "representational."
> 
> For example, Wikipedia is in Googles back pocket: always
> ends up in the top three, etc.
> 
> Are there any more interesting search engines out there
> that don't have "conflicts of interest" issues with entities
> that fill "their results"?
> 
> What are people using?  What's a truly free, as in
> independent, search engine. Like Google used to be.
> 
> Know what I mean?
> 
> Thanks!
> Charles
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