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They're claiming that they have more indexed pages than Google, over 120 billion pages. They're touting to eventually be viable competition to Google--many of the key employees there WERE from Google and also from AltaVista.
I guess one of their main focuses is NOT tracking people's surfing habits. That's a good thing I guess.
The things I think are lame about this search engine in its current form are:
1. You can't change preferences to view more than 11 results per page. I'm sorry, but I like skimming a long page--I don't like having to click "next" 50 times so I can keep skimming.
2. There is no option to see cached versions of pages. I surf almost purely using cached versions--it's a better guarantee that the terms I search for will actually be there, they're highlighted for me, and it's much safer to view cached versions of webpages.
3. There is no image search option. I don't know about you, but I use the image search in Google almost as much as I do their regular web search.
Now, this doesn't mean that these things won't change in the future--if those things change, I'll consider it a really good search engine. Though, I must admit, I find it weird that they use a dark theme for only PART of the site--I'd sure love to see the results with a dark theme too.
Blah blah...
What do you think of the engine?