The riight search engine of the day!

August 5th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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No, sorry, it’s not a typo! This quirky alternative search engine is spelled “Riight.”

Here is their mission statement:

“Search a variety of engines and content providers at once. Or don’t, we don’t care. Our whole company is simply a front for a Yemeni-based khat-smuggling ring. And that’s just a front for another entirely legitimate tech company. We do things a little different here at Riight.”

These are the Search Engines that it will access for you:

(The Web) Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more.

(Images) Image Providers: Yahoo! Search and Ditto

(Audio) Audio Providers Include: Yahoo! Search and Singingfish.

(Video) Video Provider: Blinkx

(News) News Providers: ABC News, Yahoo! News, FoxNews and Topix

Their “Riight Now @ Riight” feature lets you see what other people are searching for.

Riight Now @ Riight

Warning: Clicking below (on their site) is going to take you to another page wherein you shall be privy to a scrolling display of those keywords that people are looking up at this very moment.

Viewing such keywords should serve as an interesting (if informal) sociological experiment – but, like most interesting things, this particular slice of sociology may very well involve God-knows-what sort of wacky content, including some that the squeamish may find to be objectionable.

People could be searching for pictures of naked water buffaloes for all we know. We are not responsible in any way, shape, or form for anything you see on that page. Ride the snake. To the lake. The ancient lake, baby.

Hey, I don’t create them folks, I just report them; riight!

Alternative Engines Competition

August 5th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Alts, News | 2 Comments »

The past few Sundays I have written about my increasing frustration with the plight of the Alternative Search Engines, which I would caption, “Too Many Choices and Too Little Market Share.” Just to browse the recent Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list, spending only 10 minutes at each one, would take you 16 hours! I seriously doubt that many readers are doing that.

The result? If you take all 100 of the search engines on my list, and combine all of their market shares, the grand total would be less than 5% of the Search market share for 100 of the very best alternative search engines combined! For a precise market share analysis, please visit Tynto! the Long Tail Search Engine.

In my last article, I mentioned that AltSearchEngines has begun to formulate our own solution to this apparent impasse; this Plexiglas ceiling. But in my private emails with some of you, I am also realizing that there are probably other solutions besides mine (imagine that!).

So, with all of that in mind, here are the rules of the competition: Read the rest of this entry »