Keep your Google mania in check There are rivals that can challenge search king by Mark Evans. Financial Post (Jan 29)
Warns people vying to get a piece of Google's IPO that there are new competitors to Google in the wings. One is Dipsie.
"A company you might start hearing more about in the coming months is Dipsie Inc., which is building a search engine it claims will include 10 billion Web pages by later this year -- three times more than what Google offers. There is no surety that Dipsie will become a threat to Google or even emerge as a viable search engine player but it is the kind of rival that should keep the good folks at Google and investors awake at night.
What Dipsie is trying to do is develop search technology that does a better job of retrieving and presenting data. It aims to index many parts of the Web that Google or Inktomi don't. While Dipsie's technology is complex, in simple terms it will use semantic-based analysis to produce searches featuring content and context."