Bing is definitely a rising star, although it’s still far behind Google. But it’s catching up close to Yahoo. The most recent search figures released by Nielsen, Bing has managed to capture a total of 10.7% US searches in August 2009. This is a storing figure considering Bing is a new born, making Bing as one of the top 10 fastest growing search engines. Bing is almost ready to overtake Yahoo, which has dropped 4.2% to a total of only 16% of total US searches. Attached below show the full figures of the top 10 search engines. Google still stays at the top, capturing a total of 64.6%.

BTW, How to get your Blog or website into BING?

If you have lots of original and unique contents and consistently update your blog, it shall get on BING pretty soon. And it’s best to maintain a sitemap for your website or blog. If your blog runs Wordpress, then you just need to have the XML Sitemap Generator plugin, which it generates sitemap for any new contents or blog posts added and also includes BING/MSN in its notification/PING list once new contents added and a new sitemap is generated. And similarly, you can check out if your new blog posts have been included in Bing by typing “site:yourwebsite.com” on the Bing search box.

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The RushmoreDrive search engine is claimed to be a black Google, which also claims Google is too white. As white or brighter color is deemed to consume more energy on a CRT monitor? No, it’s about the black men don’t like to use Google, which is meant more for the white and Google has been accused of returning results that alienate the rest of the population.

RushmoreDrive was launched by Johnny C. Taylor, in April, which is made to return search results that target more to the black community. Yeah, RushmoreDrive has made it more relevant search results to black. Such as the black people search for “Whitney” mostly mean they’re looking for Whitney Houston. But if you perform the search for “Whitney” you’ll get the first result on Google is Whitney Museum of Art, followed by Whitney Bank, and then only either the 3rd or the 4th is Whitney Houston.

But RushmoreDrive does it differently, it returns search results favorable to the black. Searching for Whitney definitely returns “Whitney Houston” first and always return stuff that Black people like! (The search for “Whitney” on RushmoreDrive is promoted to the first position on the first page of search results, whereas Whitney Museum of Art and Whitney Bank have been demoted to 2nd and 3rd respectively.) The RushMoreDrive search engine is named after the North Carolina street where its offices are. Great for the black!

via [latimesblogs]

We want better search results? I personally feel that Google does the best, with its very simple user interface, and search results are highly relevant, although many claim that Google’s search results are now floated with blog posts. Google determines the position of a search result by the website’s or the page’s pagerank. And pagerank is determined by how many incoming links to a website or web page. Yeah, it’s reasonable that the search result shows higher position if that website or web page has more incoming links, which stand for the genuity, originality and higher relevancy of what the user searches. But due to recent years, many people are making spamming links, some spamming pages can be made with high pagerank too, before it’s been detected by the big G.

Well, we’re not to talk about how big G does it. It’s done pretty nice since its launch back in 1998. We’re here to talk about the Cuil (pronounced as “cool”), a search engine that was launched by an ex Google scientist. Yeah, this search engine seems to have their own search index database. As when I perform a search, it shows very low similarity to search results provided by any of the big three. Meaning it shouldn’t be a wrapper of any of these three. The search results are organized in a 3-column manner, which the left most two columns are showing the returned search results. And the right column occasionally lists some relevant categories for the user to explore more.

The “Explore By Category” shows some funs, when you have your mouse over, which will expand the categories for you to further click each of them. Personally, I don’t like the way it organizes its search results. According to CNET, Cuil had a bad launch, which was complained with glitches and weird, incomplete, missing search results. According to CNET’s talk with Cuil VP of communications Vince Sollitto about the launch issues. CEO Tom Costello was “busy putting out fires,” Sollitto said.

Sollitto said there were two issues affecting Cuil search quality currently. First, he said, “We are trying to give people different results.” Cuil is pitched as an alternative to traditional search engines, and users should not expect the results to be the same.

Personally, I’m same with the rest, I ain’t like how it organizes the search results. Yeah, I know, we properly shall appreciate that they’ve been striving to provide better and different search results. Look, when I searched for “USB Magic Jack“, and I clicked on the one of the returned results, it showed me PAGE NOT FOUND! It sucks. Although PAGE NOT FOUND is not to blame Curl, it shall be the responsibility of the website itself. But I think, Curl somehow must have intelligence built-in to detect and not to show a search result that points to a page which returns the code 404!

More bad talk about Cuil is found here. It says Cuil sucks!

The sorting of content also depends on the local relevancy. It offers advanced search and setting of your own preference such as how many search result to return in a page, enable safe search, language selection and open search result in a new browser window. These are some of the common preferences that have been offered by the big search engines such as Google.

Each search result gives a preview option, when clicked, it’ll load the page in a small iframe. Somehow, I find this unnecessary.

Talking about the option that allows user to open a new browser window when the search result is clicked, AskAlexia.com seems to have no option for this. They do it differently, which each search result will open to a new browser window by default. But almost all other search engines will open on the same windows, unless you’ve chosen to open in a new browser window. But AskAlexia ajax search does it by default opening search result in a new browser window and gives no option for that. I think they shall make some improvements for this. But they’re forgiven since they’re still in the BETA version.

Check out the New Zealand search engine, here the Searchii, Found via AskAlexia blog search

It all depends how you market your search engine. The Internet advertising is kinda like endless market, which has more rooms for expansion. Scour is another search engine which is also a wrapper, and it’s built with its wrappers over the big three, which the searched results are aggregated from the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN, just in case you ain’t know).

Furthermore search result allows members to comment. So you can judge on a search result more precisely from those comments. The Scour also offers a money making opportunity to the public who use the Scour search engine. Their money model is as follows:

* You get 1 point when you make a search on Scour,
* Every comment you write about the particular search result gives you 2 points,
* You can invite a friend to Scour, and earn points for these invites,
* 25% of points that are made by the people invited by you are also added to your account.
* Also the installation of Scour toolbar gives you points.

Once you’ve accumulated 6,500 points, you can then redeem for a 25$ Visa Gift Card. So it all depends how hard you work searching on Scour. If you could search Scour for 6,500 times a day, meaning that you’d get a $25 worth Visa Gift card everyday. Toolbars for IE and Firefox are available and they’ll have a version with widgets.

While searching it seems to work like AJAX manner, as what Ask Alexia search engine does having a spinner being loaded. But the returned search results are having the most, three pages only. And it seems to have loaded all these three pages at once. As navigating to the next page loads extremely fast! About AskAlexia, their homepage is a girly gadget blog, but today, I’ve spotted a search bar for pointing to the web, image, video, news, music and blog searches is available on the top of the homepage. Check it out at Ask Alexia

via [technospot]

From my understanding the Tybit search engine shouldn’t have their own indexes database, which they work like others which is only a wrapper of the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN). As when you perform a search on tybit, it shows very close searched results to the big three. Nowadays, even the three are getting closer to each other.

One thing is good is Tybit offers search affiliates, which you can sign up at Tybit website to become an affiliate, if you’ve got a website. You’ll need to paste really simple code on your website to turn it into your own Tybit-powered search engine. Whenever people search on your search engine, and they click on those adverts listed at the right-hand side (similar to Google adwords), you’ll then get paid.

I’ve learned about Tybit as I read it from the magazine World Opportunity. It says that Tybit can let you earn about $140 a day if you have a website that has about 1,000 unique visitors per day. And if you have more of course, you’ll make more than that. Imagine, $140 per day, you’ll get about $140 x 30 = $4,200 per month.

Besides Tybit, if you’re looking for another interesting search engine, Ask Alexia might be worth looking. It’s an ajax-based search engine, that shows no page reload or refresh when you perform your searches on it. It offers 6 searches for the time being, which are, web, image, video, news, music and blog. And having various controls for different searches, such as filtering for different formats of documents, image types, video types, and music searches by song title, artist and album name etc. But it’s somehow still under BETA version. It looks like it’s also a wrapper of Yahoo and the blog search could be a wrapper of Technorati as it offers filtering for authority.