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New Search Engine: MyLiveSearch
By Robert | August 29, 2007
I have been having a play around with a new search engine that has been released. MyLiveSearch is a new search engine designed to search the internet live.
They claim that when you use traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. You are searching through days, weeks and months old, caches of pages. The guys over at MyLiveSearch claim that their search engine will search the internet in real time and you will receive results that Google doesn’t even know about yet.
It seems to work fairly well. The first day the beta was released; I tried a search and got a long list of very off topic results. Having tried it again today the results seem to be much more on topic.
The search it’s self is pretty fast, if it’s doing what they claim (searching the web live) then it is a speed daemon. It has a very cool interface, but that comes with a price. You will need to download a plug in to use it. From what I can tell, the whole interface seems to be Ajax. It works seamlessly and very fast. Why the plug in is needed, I have no idea, but I think this my affect the sign up rate in a fairly big way. No one whats to download a plug in just to use a search engine. Google is the perfect example that when it comes to searching the internet, less is more.
All in all, it seems to do what they say it does. As for it being the next Google?
I highly doubt it. It is very gimmicky looking and I could not see myself using it as my full time search engine. It’s still not as fast as Google and my only complaint about the results is there is very little to no description about the results. So you are almost blind clicking, hoping it is what you are looking for.
Worth a try if you like playing with new thing, but sadly nothing to get to excited about.
Fear not Google, the top spot is still all yours.
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