Which is the best search engine

So it has been over 10 years of google being part of our life. I still remember me using those rickety search engines, which when asked something gave some results that were not even close to what i was looking for. i do remember using Altavista, Lycos and of course Yahoo...

And then a few days back i was just wondering which is the best search engine .
Ah .. i got an idea... why not ask the search engine itself... well who else can beat Google... so let me ask google itself " Which is the best search engine"



Whaaaat !!! Noo.. i didnt expect that ... which is this damn Dogpile search engine.
Hey come on google... are you serious..?


ok, let me ask Yahoo... Come on yahoo.. i know you will give me the right ans(Shhh!! google i mean)...




Ahh !!! whats happening today ... Dogpile??? Never even heard of it..



Bing is the new search engine launched by Microsoft... yes... i think atleast once it microsoft can give the right ans



Its clearly not Google's day today...



Hmmm... ok lets go back to AltaVista



Ok this is the last try ...lycos




I give up ... so every one in this world believes that Dogpile is the best search engine...

But there is one ... the one... search engine that disagrees... and that is..
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Whaaaat ... Oh God ..!!!
look where this search engine has ranked itself...

Come on Dogpile you are the Best :) GO FETCH !!!

Its a cut-throat out there

It has been only few months when the new kid on the block Wolfram alpha appeared.It gave a complete new dimension of search... and then the over hyped-term "the decision engine" became the marketing strategy for BING.
Well it did perform well.. I used it for a week or so and then I bounced back to my google... I am a loyal consumer you see...

And then I came to know that google has something similar in mind .. giving just precise information back.. Google launched Google Squared... it gives the tabulated results of things you want to compare...

Hmmm.. interesting .. but there is lots of scope for its improvement...

With Bing trying desperately to come one-up with Google, Wolfram the decision engine and then the newbie Collecta has also come up..

Twitter came up to jitter the planet.. and so bing included Tweets too...

But what is google doing ... can they sit quietly ...

Noo.. Say Hello to Google Caffeine.. you can test it on http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

I am still following it.. will write more about it in next post ..

The Marvellous Wolfram Alpha

The Big Daddy of Google is here : Wolfram|Alpha

I was absolutely stunned by seeing this. Mind it its not just a search engine. If you ask W|A "who are you" it answers " I am a computational knowledge engine"

The goal of W|A is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable. well thats really a huge ambitious project. I salute those scientists and engineers behind this very noble thought.

What makes W|A different from google. Well its just the way they are structured or being more specific W|A answers almost all questions based on data through mathematical computaions, unlike google which largely depends on indexing of the web pages. This surely helps in answering questions which are not already asked on the internet. something as stupid as "mass of earth/ mass of dog"

Some more specific comparisons can be something like "wind speed" W|A calculates the wind speed specific to your location whereas google gives every link related to the keyword 'windspeed'

Well its a great computational engine. Right now it wont be a threat to google, but surely it has lots and lots of potential. Its just a baby in cradle, slowly it will grow and i need to make a relationship with it to better understand it.

It does make homeworks simpler :)

Some funny things that i have found are as follows:

1. Whats your name?

2. where do you stay ?

3. who made you ?

4. do you like your job ?

5. do you speak hindi ?

6. who am i ?

7. how old are you ?

8.are you smart?

9.how are you

10.where are you

11.where is god (this is bizzare!!!)

12.raga gandharavam

13. Can you help me?”

14.What will you do?

15.What are you?

16.What do you not like? (this is funny)

17. milky way (i wasnt expecting that)

18. are you dog (ha ha ha )

The Transitions

From the Fairy tales to the real world .... here I come ...