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A Post on the Search Industry Blog
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AnooX believes it has more relevant results than Google or Yahoo and is challenging them both to a relevancy competition. You can read about it here.
My thoughts:
1. It would probably be a bad public relations move for Google or Yahoo to accept a challenge from AnooX or from any other search engine for that matter. They may or may not win on some of the tests but why risk bringing a smaller search engine a bunch of traffic or risk the chance of a loss?
2. I tried a few search queries at AnooX and it may not be the most relevant for all search queries. You can see for yourself but AnooX does not return the official websites for any of the following queries as of this writing: “Google”, “Yahoo”, “MSN”, “FyberSearch”. When I tried those same search queries at Google and Yahoo I received the official websites for each one.
3. Not that FyberSearch is perfect, but a search for “AnooX” at FyberSearch currently returns www.anoox.com as the first result but a search for “FyberSearch” at AnooX doesn’t return www.fybersearch.com anywhere in the results.
4. It really doesn’t matter if Google or Yahoo accept the challenge to AnooX. If they do then AnooX gets a BUNCH of traffic (AnooX are already getting a little press just because they made the challenge). If Google and Yahoo reject or don’t respond to the challenge then AnooX gets to claim that Yahoo and Google were too scared and therefore must have less relevant results.
Just for the record, I have no problems with AnooX. I think that they have a nice engine going that does return relevant results for many queries.
Good luck guys! I would personally love to see Google, Yahoo or other major search engines accept the challenge.
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