Is this the rival to Google?

We’ve spent most of the afternoon testing out a new search engine

called Teoma. You may have heard of it but it seems unlikely. Only

this month did it hit the search engine industry’s consciousness (it

first appeared in May apparently), so we suppose its techie sites

like us and then the mainstream.

So what’s the fuss about? Well, it looks as though it may give

Google a run for its money. It’s certainly improves on Google’s

methodology in one sense but it may end up being the ideal search

tool if you know exactly what you are after. The Register

Here’s the Search Engine Showdown review of its strengths and weaknesses. Biggest limitation? No Boolean searching, although it does support the use of ‘”-” (the minus sign) before a search term to exclude it.