Other SE s after Google MSNa nd yahoo

[kensmith]

MSN will become a bigger player once they are serving up only their PPC ads instead of Yahoos. I think this year will see a big change in percentages with the big three.

[Cherie]

I do think that MSN is in the running. I just started a new MSN campaign on their beta program and was impressed with the ease of the start up and criteria that the other SE's don't offer. Many of my clients have asked for their Google and Overture campaigns to be turned on during the weekends, etc., but this is not an option. The new MSN offers, gender selection , age criteria and setting days that you want your ppc's to run. It will be interesting to see the conversion stats. I will let you know how this performs once solid data is collected. Of course, natural is better, but a little modern science never hurts either...

[HouseboyMike]

Why should I assume others are different than me? When I search, I'm always dissappointed with google's results. Yesterday, I searched for 'home for rent vacaville ca', and google had homegain and the other 'homes for sale' big names on the front page. Nobody listing rentals made it on the first page. Msn and yahoo fared better. Poor search results leave the door wide open for a relevance based SE to take over the top spot IMO.

[Homesurfer]

Exactly. Poor search results create opportunity. That's why Google was able to dominate. Previous search engines sucked.

For a competitor to come along and "beat" Google - they have to really be committed toward indexing the web on at least the same scale as Google. Search is a two-step process. Index, then sort according to the query, editing out abusers/spammer/etc. through the use of filters.

So far, no one seems willing to index to the level that Google is committed to do. Once someone is, all you have to do is build a better "sort" function.

Of course, they also have to figure out a way to make a profit. Search by itself generates no profit.

[SEO Jason]

i'd say right now that there is too many sites out there that are just floating. little to none inbound links. and there good sites, they offer what they say they offer for the market there in, it's just the market is too small and the search engines, even google just doesn't have a system to index all the sites out there, including the small ones, especially if there are no or little inbound links. A lot of real estate offices build a website, advertise it on park benches and the such but never get any search engine traffic because they don't know they need to get anyone to link to there site for a search engine to follow it. But there site has all the information on it that is needed for someone to buy a house in the small community that they service.

[linknz]

As of now I would say that the big 3 are the only ones that you need to worry about. I can't even give you one other SE that has given me any traffic in the last 30 days.

HMmmmm!

That sounds like a challenge to me?

Since four days ago when we reset our stats files last we have had a little under 650,000 visitors into my search engine.
I will add that so far we have yet to really start to index many real estate based websites.
We usually index websites that are suggested to us within 24hrs but we only index the suggested ones, it would be crazy to go out on the hunt for sites.
So I would imagine that we have yet to get noticed by real estate webdesigners.
From our search engine we feed a heap of Meta search engines, they send search queries directly into our servers and then display our results to the users they have.
So we are a supplier of search feeds to others as well a having our own webspiders that are in use almost 27/7 to keep up with the sites being suggested to us.

[kensmith]

First off the statement was 5 months old, not that I can find a search engine still to this date taht sends me any real amount of traffic other than the big three. But just for fun what is your search engine?