People who search using only Google, and nothing but Google miss out on 72.7% of the possible search results.

That’s basically the main conclusion two American universities drew in this here study.

I plaid guilty as well, the damn thing is imported in my browser, as with most of us by now, I imagine.

Does anybody out here still remembers the glory days of Altavista - now called AlltheWeb? In tough competition with Yahoo for a while, when the third dog stepped into the game to basically flip the script and take over their business? It sounds almost nostalgic.

Anyway, here’s a top100 of alternative search engines, it’s amazing how many they are. Business blogs seem to be stuck on the question “Is Search still the big business opportunity for the web?”

And yes, it sure is, watch out for web3.0 coming at you, the semantic web. I might get a little deeper into that one of these days. It shouldn’t always be about style and music and design and stuff, now should it?