Starting from the history of Google there are many companies which are playing against the web’s largest brand Google.
Google is the world’s biggest straw man which keeps getting built up, torn down, and then built up again. Many of other search engines promised to be a better search engines than Google but they could never work the way like Google does today.
Google is the only single name in the Technology platform that is well balanced to rule. Google is undoubtedly ruling the internet economy. From starting in the history of Google it’s been all the way up for Google. It had its impact in the industry with more than 150 products and will continue to grow with its ever increasing portfolio of the products. This is likely to happen but for these 10 companies which have posed some serious competition to Google.
Considering the history of Google Following are the examples of alleged Google killers, and to consider whether any of them are, in fact, likely to crush Google to death.
Google Killers
AllTheWeb:
AlltheWeb was an Internet search engine that made its debut in mid-1999. It grew out of FTP Search Google has been a Linux community favorite for a long time. But does it finally face some competition from AllTheWeb.com. There used to be a debate about which search engine was best. And maybe there still is, but we haven’t been hearing much about it because Google is pretty much it. Even Yahoo uses Google. Google is the default command-line interface to the Web…and well worth paying for.”
Brainboost:
Brainboost is a metasearch engine outlined to give distinguished answers to questions asked in natural language. Presently it only supported English. The Brainboost engine uses machine learning and natural language processing AI techniques to answer the questions. It was bought by Answers.com in 2005, and is now a feature of that site.
Cuil:
Cuil is a search engine which was developed by a team of ex-Googlers and other top excellent people from institutions such as IBM and Altavista. This Google killer Cuil was launched on 28th July, 2008 and made declaration of being world’s largest search engine, indexing 10 times more pages as Microsoft and 3 times more than Google. This new search engine seemed poised to take on Google in a head-to-head competition.
Cuil’s approach was different to search and rank Websites. Google’s trick is to search sites for keywords and then rank the sites depends upon acceptance and popularity. The principle after this approach is pretty much simple: If majority of people link to a page, it must be pretty good. The difficulty was that Cuil didn’t quite live up to user expectations when it launched. In fact, the site closed for business on September 17th, 2010.
Freebase:
Freebase is a large database. The aim of the database is to centralize data as much as possible, and acknowledge participants to freely edit and access data. Developers can juice down the information from Freebase via a set of APIs and add it to their web applications. It also builds relationships among highly structured pieces of data, something that can’t easily be done with distributed data controlled by different entities.
Freebase is an example and even it’s unhealthy to talk about any startup killing Google or in competition with it. Freebase is doing just fine, and the sign that it’s really a big deal will be people thinking of it as an alarming substitute to Wikipedia, not that it runs Google out of business.
Live Search
Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform overseas by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft’s Platform and Systems division. As part of this difference, Live Search was incorporated with Microsoft adCenter. Microsoft is trying to boost its advertising profits by showing irrelevant ads. That’ll hurt Microsoft long term because anyone on Live will know the ads really have nothing to do with the search being done. Google’s resolutions will supremacy to more regular advertising users. Microsoft delights searchers as something to take advantage of, while Google shows far more appropriate ads in front of a searcher.
Powerset:
This is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the internet. In July 2008, Powerset agreed to be acquired by Microsoft. If Powerset aids in the eradication of Google, it will presumably be as an enabling technology in a future version of Live Search, not as a stand-alone service.
Quaero:
European research program with an aim of developing multimedia with multilingual indexing and management tools for both professional and common man applications. This technology is grounded by the OSEO. Quaero is a French project with the assistance of different German partners. Quaero was made widely known by Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroder during the French-German ministerial conference in 2005. This application has been the focus of the attention of many news articles. As a result, Quaero is often cited as a European competitor to Google, as well as other commercial search engines. Lots of folks, particularly after French President Jacques Chirac giddily talked about it as Europe’s answer to Google’s search dominance in January, 2006. Quaero site has very little to say what it’s up to, and doesn’t even indicate that it plans to build a search engine.
Teoma:
Teoma was an Internet search engine founded in 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his fellow workers at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Teoma was exclusive because of its link popularity algorithm. Unlike Google’s Page Rank, Teoma’s technology analyzed links in context to rank a web page’s importance within its particular subject. Majority parts of Teoma’s relevancy algorithm were plant upon the methodology IBM developed for its CLEVER project.
Wikia Search:
Wikia Search was Jimbo Wales’ approach to defeat Google. The content of this search engine was created by its userbase, so it must show what users are actually looking for, right? – wrong; as with Wikipedia, Wikia Search was easy to destroy and spam due to its confidence on users concluding what belongs in the search results. Wikia Search was a big bomb in the search engine box office. Only Wikia employees and fans used it, and Jimbo Wales was forced to close the entire project down.
Wisenut:
WiseNut was a crawler-based search engine owned by Looksmart. It debuted as a beta in July 2001 and was officially launched six days before 9/11, when Google was very, very popular but not quite the Web behemoth it would later become. It claims to have the fastest and most cost-effective search technology. It says it can index 50 million pages a day using only 100 off- the-shelf servers. When a new search engine comes up, it’s important to know which document types it can index. Our search engine ranking study showed that WiseNut is able to index the most documents that Google is capable of indexing, too.
Wolfram|Alpha:
Wolfram Alpha is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers real questions straight by computing the answer from structured data, instead of providing a document lists or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might. It was announced in March 2009 by British scientist Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. Wolfram Alpha is designed to answer complex search queries by returning a single result. Unlike Google, which searches the entire web for the keywords contained within a search query and then returns thousands of relevant web pages, Wolfram Alpha aims to understand the question and return the correct answer by mining its vast database of information and statistics.
