Seems like this is a good season to launch new search engines. Here’s another new search engine Snap. It was launched at the Web 2.0 conference by Bill Gross, the boss of idealab and the brains behind Overture. Overture was sold to Yahoo! in 2003.
Snap allows users to slice and dice their own search results. The search engine combines traditional search together with revenue-producing activities including comparision shopping and paid listings.
In addition, Microsoft has announced the second technology preview of their MSN search. This preview now has about 5 billion Web documents, which puts it on par with the likes of Google and Yahoo!. In this new preview, a technique for grouping, or clustering, search results by domain in order to make sure that users view results from a variety of domains rather than getting multiple Web pages from the same domain has been implemented.
Well, Google is not resting on their laurels. They are planning to announce the launch of a new service, Google Print, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. From the information on the Google Print site, I glean that it is another way for Google to get revenue via paid book listings advertisements on search results pages. But it will be quite a good search engine for librarians, particularly if the customer can only remembers certain parts of the book title. It will sorta of like a Google OPAC.
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