Nathan Enns, In His Own Words
In a recent post I mentioned FyberSearch, a new search engine developed by 19-year-old Nathan Enns. A couple of comments were registered on that post regarding the relevency of search returns from the engine.
Nathan himself weighed in on the matter, and I felt (particularly since I'm a fan) that his comments deserved more attention. Hence, this post. Following are Nathan's comments in their entirety. . .
Hi,
It is great to be mentioned on this blog, thanks :)
I would like to comment on the relevancy issue if that's okay. I would like to make it clear that I do not think that the FyberSearch results are better than other search engines for many queries. On the other hand the results may be more relevant. It really depends on what you consider relevant. In one day I get people telling me the results are completely non-relevant and other people telling me they are more relevant and they wish I was in charge of Google.
FyberSearch was moved to one average dedicated server in the last 2 months. Before that it was on a shared hosting plan. It is not in the position to have cataloged as many web pages as the other major search engines.
Its main mission is to provide internet users an alternative search experience that gives them control over their results. FyberSearch provides some unique advanced features and displays the common features in such a way that users can easily modify their search to make results match their definition of relevancy.
FyberSearch automatically tries to provide relevant results when you make a search without modifying any of the advanced features. The difference between FyberSeach and other search engines is that most of them end and begin with trying to figure out what you want automatically. FyberSearch starts with trying to figure out what you want automatically and ends with allowing you to easily tell FyberSearch what you think is relevant.
As a side note, you may see meta tag stuffers but meta tags are not involved in the default ranking algorithm ;)
Hopefully I wasn't too boring, let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Thanks again for mentioning FyberSearch on your blog.
Radiant Marketing Group
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My comment was just stating to Paul that saying the results were more relevant than Google wasn't really an accurate thing to say.
As Nathan stated, that also depends on what you're searching for, and in no way should anyone expect that a one man search engine has results that are more relevant than Google considering the number of employees and server power Google has.
Keep up the good work Nathan, my comment wasn't meant to criticize or detract from what you've accomplished. Google is by no means perfect, so I love seeing upstart engines challenging the status quo.