[ExI] Google has incorporated Wolfram Alpha search results

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Tue May 26 01:44:55 UTC 2009


2009/5/25 Alejandro Dubrovsky <alito at organicrobot.com>:
> On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 21:45 +0100, ben wrote:
>> Alejandro Dubrovsky <alito at organicrobot.com>  declared:
>>
>>  >(Try creating a search engine that just returns Google's results without
>>  >coming to an arrangement with Google, and see how long it keeps
>>  >working).
>>
>>
>> Er, you mean like Scroogle?
>>
>> (Waits for Scroogle to stop working)
>>
> That should not exist.  I demand its non-existance.  Unless, of course,
> Google is letting one through as
> a) a source of search terms that people consider privacy-sensitive
> b) a way to avoid bad publicity if they were to stop it
> c) a service to the more-privately-conscious part of the community
>
> (and that makes up for a quarter million searches a day!?  That's
> serious ad-money)
>
> For better evidence:
> Try creating a search engine that just retuns Google's results AND makes
> money without coming to an arrangement with Google ...
>

Here's another one.

http://blackle.com/

I don't know if it makes any money.

There are probably more.

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