Introducing Kosmix search, watch out Google and Wikipedia

Introducing Kosmix search, watch out Google and Wikipedia

Tom Warren on 24 January 2009 - 00:38 · 24 comments & 8321 views

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After catching a quick tweet from Robert Scoble I stumbled across a live video feed Scoble was producing with the folks from Kosmix.

Kosmix is an "alternative search engine" that received $20 million of funding from Time Warner in December 2008. If you search for a topic in Kosmix instead of a list of results, you get a full page of facts, content and user opinion from sites like Wikipedia, Google Search Results, Flickr, Ebay and Twitter.

Searching for Neowin provides our latest news, latest tagged flickr photos and our YouTube content. It's a pretty impressive aggregator of content for trending topics like Obama.

If you're researching a topic for school, work or to win that bet with your buddy then this will certainly help you get away from the mundane Google search results and pure facts from Wikipedia and offer you a little more to your searches.

Give it a go and let us know what you think in the comments, Wikipedia or Google search killer?

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(2 replies) #1 marleyuk on 24 Jan 2009 - 00:46

I like it, its good how it links the images and latest blogs.

#1.1 +Rappy on 24 Jan 2009 - 01:00

Yeah it seems useful to me

#1.2 Recon415 on 24 Jan 2009 - 05:03

Very useful. It would make a great homepage if I didn't have a dedication to Neowin.

(6 replies) #2 WolfDV on 24 Jan 2009 - 00:58

Cuil ? is that you? lol

personally I can't see a new search engine ever besting google, they have too much market share, and if something starts to compete with it, google will just buy it out or copy its features.

Last edited by WolfDV on 24 Jan 2009 - 01:07

#2.1 Gangsta on 24 Jan 2009 - 01:43

Hah! I totally was thinking the same thing... I just didn't see yours.

Although this isn't a simple search engine... so let's see.

#2.2 jameswjrose on 24 Jan 2009 - 03:24

>>personally I can't see a new search engine ever besting google, they have too much market share

Remember that Netscape had over 90% market share, IBM and Apple had a head start over MS, Yahoo was way ahead of Google, etc etc. I agree that google is a great engine, but don't count someone out because someone else is currently ahead.

Peace,
James

#2.3 theyarecomingforyou on 24 Jan 2009 - 04:18

I can easily see an alternative search engine building a decent marketshare but it will have to offer something new, whether that's a new layout, better quality results, a new focus (privacy, encryption, social networking, translation of foreign sites, sorting by user preference) or a new way to compile information. Perhaps, like Firefox, it will simply be the search engine with the best support for addons. Regardless, Kosmix and Cuil are definitely a step in the right direction but neither is quite what's needed.

#2.4 The_Decryptor on 24 Jan 2009 - 07:59

jameswjrose said,

Also remember that Microsoft broke the law to crush Netscape and it's browser.

It was a matter of the bigger company could take the fine vs. a better product as a competitor.

#2.5 theyarecomingforyou on 24 Jan 2009 - 13:19

The_Decryptor said,

Also remember that Microsoft broke the law to crush Netscape and it's browser.

It was a matter of the bigger company could take the fine vs. a better product as a competitor.

Yes, but now Mozilla is making huge inroads into IEs marketshare. It's always possible.

#2.6 PROGAME on 24 Jan 2009 - 15:28

yes cuil was my thinking too

(1 reply) #3 Gangsta on 24 Jan 2009 - 01:41

And begin to remember Cuil....

Will it fly?

#3.1 kazuyette on 24 Jan 2009 - 03:14

Will it blend ?

#4 MR_Candyman on 24 Jan 2009 - 03:09

eh, I like the idea, but despite how much I LOATHE the way google searches, this really isn't doing much better.

#5 Lechio on 24 Jan 2009 - 03:24

Too bloated, too much information being displayed in the same page. Not very comfortable to use. :/

Last edited by Lechio on 24 Jan 2009 - 04:08

#6 excalpius on 24 Jan 2009 - 04:45

I tried to use it to search for images, but all it does is link you to other search engines/sites/blogs with more links to that you actually want, with no way to filter out by relevance/size/etc. Total fail in that regard...

I was unimpressed.

#7 some_guy on 24 Jan 2009 - 04:57

how would it be a google killer if it uses google search?

(1 reply) #8 rakeshishere on 24 Jan 2009 - 06:40

Google is immortal.. There is no such thing as Google search killer

#8.1 Quikboy on 25 Jan 2009 - 17:09

rakeshishere said,

Google is immortal.. There is no such thing as Google search killer

There is if you feel it is!

(1 reply) #9 liemfukliang on 24 Jan 2009 - 11:06

This search engine can't defeat the old one, because it depend on it. Kosmix not indexing it own, but rather than it get from many source like Google. When I search my name it just show the google web search. Not quite good.

#9.1 Lechio on 24 Jan 2009 - 14:39

Looks like someone was trying to "pimp up this site" and make believe that this was something that really isn't. It had a few hits, some exposure, it was entertaining...

#10 lflashl on 24 Jan 2009 - 13:27

and when we look up porn?

#11 thealexweb on 24 Jan 2009 - 14:37

Introducing Kosmix Search, watch out Knol.

#12 ChrisJ1968 on 24 Jan 2009 - 15:07

Kosmix sucks. alot of "Related" stuff and pictures but where is my link to my search's official website? i was looking for disneyworld and came up with videos and pictures but found no official link to the website.

no way it can compete right now....pure garbage

#13 x3lumin8x on 24 Jan 2009 - 23:24

I tried it. Garbage.

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