Searching For The Best Engine

A global effort is underway to invent a better way of finding things on the Web. Could Google be vulnerable?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/62254

Sorry, but the article is misleading in some instances and factually false in others. Take this statement:

<<Type "spears" into Ask.com, for example, and it will suggest you steer the topic in either the pointy or pop direction; Google just mixes them up.>>

Wrong. Typing [spears] into Google both mixes the results for diversity AND shows guided queries at the bottom (not all SWF guided queries I must add!).

Calling Google a "second generation" engine to then say these other newer search engines are "third generation" is also misleading, because that assumes that Google didn't improve since 1998. But it has, and it's now a current state of the art search engine (some might argue with the leading technology, though I agree with the article when it says Yahoo has caught up pretty nicely).