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I came across this new search engine and thought I should mention it.

From a long time now Google has been a de-facto search engine …and I have been using it almost always for hunting down stuff in the web. Its search results have been satisfying. However, sometimes in the past, I have used it to hunt down medical information and have been, more often than not left high and dry. Is that the reason why they came up with Google Scholar? I don’t know! But at that point of time I assumed that if I didn’t get it by googling then it probably did not exist. Now to think of it …what a dangerous thing to do!! I presumed that Google was not perfect and that missing out on information was not intentional. I was content with whatever it was dishing out …that is until I started blogging. The first blog was in blogger, who can go by this blog host especially when it is on offer from the mighty google and co! But then, being the restless guy I am I kept on experimenting until I hit upon wordpress. You could tweak it around until it hurt your fingers. I had a blog running immediately, and the fact that it was open source somehow made me think it was the alternative to blogger. But then the free host wordpress.com had its own limitations. So I went on my search again and finally settled for edublogs.org. In the end I had three blogs by three different hosts. The first month with all the pumped up enthusiasm I went on a blogging spree at the edublogs site. Suddenly I wondered about how my blog figured or rather ranked (am a measly human being after all!) in the search engines. What happened really threw me off the block. All the blogs had the same name and though I was not blogging so much at the blogger website, that blog seemed to top always in the google search. Hokay, maybe …google had not yet crawled through my other sites. I submittted the sites specifically to google. Gave it some time and checked again. No, blogger would always come out on the top. I skipped to Yahoo Search …and this time to my surprise the edublogs site, which I was actually using for blogging came out up front. And not until had I deleted the blog from blogger did the same happen with google.

That made me firm on two issues:

1. Keep my blog away from the blogger platform
2. To use other search engines as well

I am not saying google is horrible …it still remains one of the best search engines but somwhere along the line it is failing. If it continues to come up with biased information like this it is bound to fail miserably. I think this is what monopoly does to most of us. So when I hear about Google taking up YouTube or Jotspot something inside me tells me its not right …and makes me very uncomfortable.

So as far as blogging is concerned technorati beats google blog search anyday.

When I see search engines like Guruji …I feel all is not lost! What I like about Guruji is that it is India Specific. It can also deliver info that is city specific, this I believe has been possible through Infomedia (Yellow pages group). Guruji may never make it to getting even close to Google India but only time will tell if it will survive this big bad world that we so lovingly call the world wide web.

Tags: Google, Guruji