Comments on: Del.icio.us Offers Better Search Results than Google?

By: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:28:46 +0000

This depends on the terms that searched.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:39:45 +0000

They just need to be careful lest irrelevance via spam creeps in. http://mhinze.com/maximize-your-roi-with-delicious-spam/

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:46:19 +0000

I love what Del.icio.us has done with their FireFox plugin. It effectively replaces FireFox’s Favourites and sucks in everything you bookmark.

The more they keep track of what people want to bookmark to visit later, the better their indication of how popular a site is. The question is .. will it be more effective than GoogleBot and PageRank ?

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:39:57 +0000

I agree that Del.icio.us does have some great results for certain search queries. I don’t think that as a whole they are better than Google though.

I think in the near future the average users are going to start realizing that one search engine may not be the best option for finding the answer to every search query. People may start using more search engines based on the type of results they are looking for and it seems to me that Del.icio.us will be one of those places.

People are giving more trust to user generated content and Del.icio.us has just that – results that come from the popularity of its users.

Of course spam will always be a problem in anything that is user generated.

Just my opinion…

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:14:30 +0000

The comparisons are invalid since no specific scope for the topics has been defined. Rand’s tests and analyses leave much to be desired.

By: Sebastien Billard

Sebastien Billard — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:25:40 +0000

IMHO, it would be more correct to say “Using other tools than Google, for example Del.icio.us, is a better strategy for some searches”.