A new search engine

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Post by trishume » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 2:52 AM UTC

A new search engine
samuru.com

Re: A new search engine

#2

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

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Re: A new search engine

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Post by samirahmed » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:00 AM UTC

About 1 month ago I switched from google to bing. There different queries that use the to measure 'better'.

For simple queries 'strncmp', 'giraffe', 'sound transit schedule' ... Google, Bing and Samuru perform pretty well. But Samuru is extremely slow.

For more complex queries like, 'seattle dumpling restaurant that is famous in singapore' or 'how to zip a list in ruby'. I find that Google always comes out on top, bing lacks the previous search history to personalize my searches and often thinks I mean (zip as in zipfile)... But samuru gave me relevant results for all three which is rather surprising.

Another type is one for people/social related searches... Bing's facebook/twitter/linkedin/yelp integration actually makes it better than google because the 'snapshot' bar it has is super helpful. However Samuru results are on par with Google and Bing results here (minus the snapshot bar).

Overall I was skeptical but other than it being unbearable slow (Google spoilt us with speed), Samuru does have very good search results for what I assume is not a mutlibillion dollar product.

Re: A new search engine

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Post by ok_craig » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:02 AM UTC

I don't understand. Is this spam? There is no context or accompanying article for the claim. I searched my name and the results weren't nearly as good. One data point, sure, but first impression is everything.

Edit for context: original title read: "This search engine is better than google."

Re: A new search engine

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Post by valtron » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:06 AM UTC

Doesn't work: http://www.samuru.com/?q=porn

Re: A new search engine

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Post by nu2ycombinator » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:22 AM UTC

Better in the what sense? Its not better in respective to speed of returning the results.

Re: A new search engine

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Post by xaviel » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:26 AM UTC

Their SEO engine is easy to game

Re: A new search engine

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Post by jggonz » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:31 AM UTC

samirahmed wrote: post #3

About 1 month ago I switched from google to bing. There different queries that use the to measure 'better'. For simple queries 'strncmp', 'giraffe', 'sound transit schedule' ... Google, Bing and Samuru perform pretty well. But Samuru is extremely slow. For more complex queries like, 'seattle dumpling restaurant that is famous in singapore' or 'how to zip a list in ruby'. I find that Google always comes out on top, bi…

If it isn't too much trouble, try your queries on blekko and let us know what you think.

We actually have a /programming slashtag that is very useful for these kind of queries.

http://blekko.com/ws/?q=how+to+zip+a+list+in+ruby+%2Fruby

http://blekko.com/ws/?q=seattle+dumpling+restaurant+that+is+...

Just for fun... results in tablet-friendly format:

http://izik.com/?q=seattle%20dumpling%20restaurant%20that%20...

Re: A new search engine

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Post by jggonz » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:32 AM UTC

jggonz wrote: post #8

samirahmed wrote: post #3

About 1 month ago I switched from google to bing. There different queries that use the to measure 'better'. For simple queries 'strncmp', 'giraffe', 'sound transit schedule' ... Google, Bing and Samuru perform pretty well. But Samuru is extremely slow. For more complex queries like, 'seattle dumpling restaurant that is famous in singapore' or 'how to zip a list in ruby'. I find that Google always comes out on top, bi…

If it isn't too much trouble, try your queries on blekko and let us know what you think. We actually have a /programming slashtag that is very useful for these kind of queries. http://blekko.com/ws/?q=how+to+zip+a+list+in+ruby+%2Fruby http://blekko.com/ws/?q=seattle+dumpling+restaurant+that+is+... Just for fun... results in tablet-friendly format: http://izik.com/?q=seattle%20dumpling%20restaurant%20that%20...

We also have local results:

http://izik.com/?q=seattle%20dumpling%20restaurant

Re: A new search engine

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Post by nilkn » Sat, Apr 20, 2013, 4:38 AM UTC

I'm willing to have an open mind about this, but I think some sort of explanation on what samuru is hoping to achieve in distinction from other search engines would be helpful.