andrewgoodman
10-04-2004, 04:13 PM
From AP story on Clusty:
Naming the new search engine Clusty probably wasn't the best choice, said industry observer Chris Sherman, predicting many people will confuse the site with Krusty the Clown from the TV show, "The Simpsons."
But Sherman does believe Clusty.com's approach will appeal to the widening audience of Web surfers who are becoming more discriminating as Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves add more bells and whistles to their own search engines.
"The search engine experience is becoming much richer," said Sherman, editor of Search Day, an industry newsletter. "The big question for (Clusty) is whether it will be able to generate enough buzz to get people to come try it out."
Here's hoping.
While I find Clusty very appealing to use, though, I do recognize it as a metasearch engine, which means it's only as good as the index and algo's it piggybacks on. There really are no shortage of metasearch engines in the world, so for degree of difficulty they get 5 out of 10. I'd say 8 out of 10 for execution of what they are doing.
So what search engine challenge would pose a HIGH degree of difficulty, and do you think the company that solves it could make a business out of it? :cool:
Naming the new search engine Clusty probably wasn't the best choice, said industry observer Chris Sherman, predicting many people will confuse the site with Krusty the Clown from the TV show, "The Simpsons."
But Sherman does believe Clusty.com's approach will appeal to the widening audience of Web surfers who are becoming more discriminating as Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves add more bells and whistles to their own search engines.
"The search engine experience is becoming much richer," said Sherman, editor of Search Day, an industry newsletter. "The big question for (Clusty) is whether it will be able to generate enough buzz to get people to come try it out."
Here's hoping.
While I find Clusty very appealing to use, though, I do recognize it as a metasearch engine, which means it's only as good as the index and algo's it piggybacks on. There really are no shortage of metasearch engines in the world, so for degree of difficulty they get 5 out of 10. I'd say 8 out of 10 for execution of what they are doing.
So what search engine challenge would pose a HIGH degree of difficulty, and do you think the company that solves it could make a business out of it? :cool: