Link: CometQuery - Searching the world again!. I really hate it when someone comes out with a new search engine that is supposed to be the next Google killer, and then fails miserably to deliver. Yet this is the situation with CometQuery which professes to be 'a search engine that genuinly (sic) beats google (sic), faster results, better rusults (sic), safer results ...'
Unfortunately no. It's none of these things. It's a bolt on front end to Yahoo with added thumnails and.... well - that's it really. No visual search, audio, blog, news, nothing. You really cannot make claims like that and expect to be treated seriously when the best you have to offer is lots of white space. Next!
Hello Daniel from CometQ here,
Phil, I must first of all and start by saying our PR no longer states anything about killing google, it was a mistake to publish it and we have since fixed that issue.
Regarding being a frontend for yahoo, I must point out the results are not alike.
http://www.cometquery.com/fast.php?s=nerd
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nerd
We as you speak now are also updating the design.
Thanks for blogging about us, we see your British like us, cool!
Yours,
Daniel Jenkins
Posted by: Daniel Jenkins | November 09, 2006 at 11:26 AM
Thanks for the comments Daniel. Probably wise to drop the Google bit, and stand on your own merits. Nice to see the addition of new material as well.
I checked your results again, and ran 3 searches, and got identical results to Live.com this time! :)
Posted by: Phil Bradley | November 09, 2006 at 06:20 PM