I’m not sure if TechCrunch’s screen grab of a search result for Wikia’s potential Google killer is legit or not, but it’s a results page for Toyota Camry, I could not help but compare search results for Toyota Camry and see which one was best:
- From Wikia Search (via TechCrunch) - you only see the Top 3 results.
- From MetaMojo.com (this is our domain-specific, vertical search engine)
- From Google
- From AOL - this puppy returned no [organic] results (?)
- From MSN
- From Ask
- From Yahoo!
The only thing I’ll say is that our budget is a fraction of theirs, and ALL of the results are essentially similar. If one better, sure, but that depends on the individual user and what that person is looking for at the time, “relevance is subjective.”
I am very impressed and happy with MetaMojo.com’s result, and I feel that auto is not even our best category, I tend to like music, health quite a bit.
I’ll also say that ours is the best at vertical, contextual result, and if indeed 2007 is a year when vertical search is to take off, then we’re well positioned. I personally welcome more innovation. I have been working on a lot of bells and whistles and we’ll be rolling them out over the next weeks. I do not really think anyone would cease going to Y! or G and come to MetaMojo, I simply think it’s a good piece of our overall company’s portfolio; at the very most, it sure is complementary to what the major search engines are doing.
Anyway, good luck Jimbo, if you intend on “killing Google,” you will need it.
If nothing else, competition is always a good thing and this only improves search results, which are always hit or miss depending on your state of mind.
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