Are UK Search Engines Seriously Threatening Google, or Is This Just Telegraph’s Attempt to Promote Its Affiliates?
It occurs to me that the purpose of the Telegraph.co.uk article mentioned in the opening of this entry is to promote search engines affiliated with the Telegraph.co.uk. Although they certainly have their merits, these are far from being “Google threats.” What I consider “Google threats” are Powerset, hakia or Quintura – these, with the right marketing approach, could gain more and more of Google’s niche. But let’s go back to The Telegraph’s candidates. Pixsta for example, a “visual” search engine, has a purely commercial purpose. The Telegraph integrated Pixsta in its “power shop.” Another UK startup featured at the Telegraph is Blinkx.com – a video search engine that bases its results on tags, voice recognition and even face recognition. Blinks is the system that powers the video search behind Ask.com, MSN and AOL and it’s apparently the most popular video service in UK. With an Alexa rank of 3191 today, we can safely assume that the service has good chances of becoming a primer on th
