BigClique.com - No Soup, Just Search
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Written By Reprise Media | May 24, 2005 | Share This
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Doing things the easy way is not an option for Femi Olu, founder of the recently launched crawler-based engine, BigClique.com. In a recent interview with URLWire, he told reporter Eric Ward:
“It would take less than a week to create and complete a meta-search tool, but the truth is the user would see the same search […]
Doing things the easy way is not an option for Femi Olu, founder of the recently launched crawler-based engine, BigClique.com. In a recent interview with URLWire, he told reporter Eric Ward:
“It would take less than a week to create and complete a meta-search tool, but the truth is the user would see the same search results they see already at all the other cookie-cutter meta-search sites.”
Olu also holds no truck with search engines that seek to branch out beyond their bread and butter. The site does not offer news, weather, email, or any other non-search related features:
“If you are looking for news go to CNN.com and BBC.co.uk, if you need maps go to Maps.com, if you need weather go to Weather.com and if you need email go to Hotmail.com. But if you want an uncluttered and satisfying search experience, come to BigClique.com.”
(Wonder if Olu and this guy are related?)
Quick facts about BigClique:
- Self-proclaimed first “major” search engine launched by an African-American
- Listings are based upon a combo of meta-tags, page text, inbound links, and other “trademark technical secrets”
- The BigClique toolbar erases cookies and spyware from your hard drive and clears your search history
Final note: though this engine’s name is somewhat questionable (think about it), let’s hope they’re using the pronunciation that rhymes with “leek”. Both are acceptable, according to this listing on Dictionary.com.
Topics: Search: Innovations |
Interesting comment “If you are looking for news go to CNN.com and BBC.co.uk, if you need maps go to Maps.com, if you need weather go to Weather.com and if you need email go to Hotmail.com. But if you want an uncluttered and satisfying search experience, come to BigClique.com.”
The response to that would be to go to http://www.yumgo.com
Hmmn, I like BigClique’s search, they even had cached pages for related searches (my sites was my tests) I tested