[ExI] Google has incorporated Wolfram Alpha search results

Alejandro Dubrovsky alito at organicrobot.com
Tue May 26 09:51:04 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:14 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
> 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.
> 
Nah, that one's just a custom google search box, same as any google box
in a site.  It shows you google ads, etc. ie, it's just another frontend
for google.  






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