when out of beta?? ha ha, depends what time of day (or night) you talk to us! I think I remeber reading that google kept it up for nearly a year, wisenut was a few months. we are listening hard and tring to iron out the clumsy kinks before we take the beta off"
Site:
Mooter - Web Search: "Please be gentle with us - who'd have thought a brand new search engine that did what it said would be so popular? "
Mooter: "THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND THE TECHNOLOGY
Most search engines tackle the non-trivial task of organizing massive amounts of information from the same angle: 'lets decide on behalf of the searcher what is most relevant, based on what the bulk of the general public thinks is relevant.' We decided to rather expend our efforts watching how individual PEOPLE actually search, see where it hurts, and fix that.
Think of the way you search on a ‘traditional’ engine: you type in search phrase, get back a long list of 3 million results, read, read, read, read some more, scroll, click, back to results, read, read, read, click. THEN go back and type in a different phrase to educate the engine more about your needs. So already there are about 10 things you have to do, and that’s assuming the sort of search where you have a pretty clear idea what you after to begin with."
Discussion:
Cre8asite forums. Other Search Engine discussion - Australian Mooter takes on Google. [ Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web Design. ]: "to get a more usual SERP page go 'moot quicker' (cookie for repeat visitors only). Also, the 'all results' page give a more usual SERP.
posted by Jen @ 10:42 AM
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