A search enginge war is coming. This year, promising better and personalized results, but:
…Brand highlights the fact that while this second search arms race promises to offer better search results, the technologies are designed give search engines a better story to tell to advertisers
Get a good update: Google killers
Extragratis: Niche search engines
And well well well… a new engine, a dutch engine. Izito with a dramatic layout. The results are in flash. Yeah, flash. They say: “Izito is a smart searchengine with a rich user interface that makes searching easier.” And opening links in a new tab impossible while at the same time distorting the expected back-button behaviour.
This engine might deliver very good results – actually my first impression is quite positive-, but I’m afraid that with the current user interface a lot of people will never find out. I have two words of advice for the creators: “Usability Testing”
Hoe vaak je dan toch nog even gaat kijken bij die uitgestorven bende die Sargasso heet. Het kon even niet anders dan er een tijdje tussenuit gaan, even afkoelen even geen gezeik en niet opletten of het allemaal goed gaat, maar je merkt wel dat een weblog je enorm bezighoudt, ook al schrijf je niet eens dagelijks wat.