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The Next Google Killer?
By xaby | June 6, 2007
Google came from nowhere (or rather somewhere) and overtook Yahoo. In the fast moving world of Internet, big companies rise and fall (sometimes burn to ashes).
With Google being the dominate player now, the question remains: Who’s Next?
If you have noticed the “snap preview” over each and every link on this blog, you have already experienced Snap.com - touted by some as the next BIG thing (or maybe the killer app that will dethrone Google.com)
Check out Snap.com’s Alexa ranking
Quoted from Snap.com’s website:
“Is Search Today Good Enough?
Those of us who do a lot of searching know that search could be better. A lot better. Consider these realities of the frequent searcher:
- Frequent searchers use three or more search engines
- 50% of searches end in failure
- Total round trip time for an average search is 15 minutes
What’s wrong with search today? We think Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the rest of the big search players have settled on the wrong search paradigm: text-in, text-out. While there are slight differences in their ranking methods and the size of their indexes, the search experience offered by Big Search is exactly the same.”
Nice Opening… Is today’s search good enough? Challenging the status quo…
Check out why Snap.com think they are better (more details)
Well, there are many stories on why people think it WILL be next, here’s one interesting one
Personally, I dun think it’s a breakthrough but one thing for sure, from Snap.com: “Your search results are better with Snap because our ranking algorithm takes advantage of the prior behavior of millions of anonymous searches*. By analyzing past search behaviors, we know which sites are visited more often, the average time users spend there, and if they took any action. In addition to behavioral data from all across the Internet, Snap incorporates User Contributed Ratings (See Image Below) - a beta feature where we let You rate Your results on Snap. All of these clues help us determine if the site is right for your specific search.”.
This means that with wider adoptation of Snap.com, their search results could become better, more precise. And at this moment, i think Google Pagerank system (which has worked well in the past) is easily subjected to abuses by those who want to “beat the system” and rank high up in Google.
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