Raging Search and more

[George Porter]

Tim Kambitsch's take on Raging Search <http://raging.com> coincides well
with what I've read and seen.  AltaVista is imitating the lean, fast
responses which have made Google <http://google.com> my preferred search
engine for over a year now.

Recently unseating my long-time go-to web meta-search engine, DogPile
<http://dogpile.com>, has been Ixquick <http://ixquick.com>.  Ixquick ranks
the relevancy of web pages retrieved from up to 14 search engines.  Users
can (de)select specific search engines.  The top 10 pages from each engine
then contribute to the ranking of the integrated results.  The Kambitsch
gambit yields:

"53 unique top-ten pages selected from at least 303 matching results"

The top-ranked page, Exploiting and abusing Netscape
<http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/~kambitsch/netscape-hacks.html>, bears out the
validity of Tim's ego-surfing concept.  4 top ten rankings, specifically,
Hotbot (2), Snap (2), AOL (2), Webcrawler (2).  Less ego-boosting, but
interesting nonetheless, the second place page is Greg Kambitsch's Home
Journal <http://www.concentric.net/~gkambic>, also netting 4 top ten
finishes: Hotbot (1), Snap (1), AOL (1), Altavista (7).

Tim is the recognizable Kambitsch in 8 of the first ten entries from
Ixquick.  My behavior, in turn, reinforcing the judgment of IxQuick's
designers that the top ten sites are the ones that matter most to web
surfers.  Credit goes to Phil Bradley's Search engine column in the March
2000 Ariadne <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/search-engines/> for
introducing me to Ixquick.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
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