Maria Blogs

A new search engine launched Monday. So what you might say, there’s like a gazillion search engines launching everyday anyway. But not everyone has a not-so-secret weapon : former Google employees.

Google has always maintained that competition is great. Hey, they can very well afford to be magnanimous since they’re, as a CNN anchorperson puts it, an 800-lb gorilla. But Google has never before had to face competition from its former employees. Hmmnnn, does that mean it might just be able to approximate Google godness? Maybe. Then again, maybe not.

Anyway, so far I think it’s a funky search engine. Results are displayed in either two or three column layout with pictures and description. Related categories are also listed on the right, plus in some instances, they have tabbed results.

The one thing I noticed is that returned results list the most relevant sites instead of just listing everything including those spammy web sites – e.g., you search for a local guest house and national hotel booking chains show up because they included virtually every city and town in the world as their keyword without really having any available hotel in that area.

I’m not a geek so I’m just letting you know what’s new in town. For more in-depth reviews you can go here and here.