I spent several hours on this one. It does not matter if you try to adjust your ranking by clicking(voting) for it as these refined results apparently will only appear on 'your own' search or 'your friends' search. Takes a few reads to get this principal. So what everyone else sees is the basic positions of Alltheweb/Fast, if that is who they are using.
The basic problem still exists that irrelevant sites can get high positions and value sites with real content get a low position. The big search problem now is actually finding a site that answers your queirie as opposed to a commercial site selling something that includes your search term.
We hear a lot of talk about brining the Internet and the benefits to all the world, but the fact is $200 may be nothing for a large organisation to spend on Adwords or listinga a site, but in many parts of the world that is a vast amount of money.
I like the layout of Eurekstar, it's clear, nice feel to it, and fast.
I think we need to step outside of the circle to see that when people search they anticipate getting the 'answer' to their enquiry. The search results should not then be the 'start' of another search scrolling through pages to find what you are really looking for.
If the 'average' person needs a Roof repeair in his local town it's a backward step if he can get that clear information in a few flicks of the local printed directoty faster than finding it on a Search Engine ( yes, most places still have printed YP's! ). It's a real downer when someone puts their head around the corner and asks me if I've got a copy of the Singapore Directory and before I can say I can find what they want on the Internet they say 'Don't bother, I think reception has one!'..



The classic example is when someone searches on any major search engine for say a Hotel, they rarely get the website for 'that' hotel, all they will get is the throusands of urls containing that hotel name.

I really hope Eurekster get's it right, someone need to.

Chang ( Singapore )

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