The guys at the ‘plex must be rubbing their hands with glee over the figures from ComScore’s ‘first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity’. ComScore have calculated that 61% of searches performed worldwide are executed through Google’s servers - wow! And perhaps what is more worrying there’s no major contender out there either, with Yahoo hiding back in second place with a measily 14%. Poor old Microsoft have dropped to fourth place on the list with 3.5% behind Chinese search engine Baidu in third (5.3%) with Ask almost off the scale at 1.2%.

Google have certainly entrenched themselves in the search engine niche with their name now being synonymous with internet search and is used in movies, tv programs and general day to day life - ‘Just Google it’ has become a favourite phrase of many people was when referring to looking for something on the internet. Will there ever be another search provider out there that can compete with Google and more importantly do we, as searchers, want one?

Anyway for some more details on the figures check out ComScore.

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For the moment Google is the biggest player when thinking of search engines. But although Google has a good head-start there are lots of search engines out there trying to make it. And I think that these new search engines, that are forced to innovate in order to stand any chance, are the future.

So what can be added to a search engine that Google hasn’t added already? Well some tried more relevant ads, or advanced search features, category searching and even tabbed searching but let’s be honest, how many of them are really successful? There is even a top 100 alternative search engine chart.

But when it comes to it, all that matters is how effective is your engine and how useful are the functions you provide to your users. Practically Twerq.com is not even a search engine by itself, it’s more of an easy way to search the web using existing services like Google and Yahoo! search. And this is where TWERQ shows its best, it has some functions I’ve found quite interesting and useful at the same time, as you can see in this video:

The simple syntax it uses enables you to create relevant searches in no time at all. But the true power of TWERQ comes out when you register and create custom search lists. In this way you can search images, blogs, news, etc in the same time with only one search. It’s really helpful to configure this kind of search domains for information you need daily, it saves lots of time.

So is this the search engine of the future ? Certainly not, but I’m sure that functions like the search syntax and tabbed searching will be part of future search engines.

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