Is Delicious The Best Search Engine?
Last year I wrote how Delicious was quickly becoming my search engine of choice. It looks like Rand is starting to feel the same way about it as he compares several Delicious search queries to Google.
The problem with social search is that it’s not yet ready to replace traditional search. While Delicious is great for finding certain things it’s nearly impossible to find good results for others. Case in point, long tail search queries.
Although it has significantly improved since I wrote the post last year, there is still a long ways to go before it can gain any sort of market share in the search industry. There just isn’t enough people bookmarking content yet, and I’m not sure that there ever will be.
What do you think? Do you like using Delicious as a search engine and is it better than Google?
Cameron Olthuis is the Founder of
Cameron, I guess this is catching on. I think it’s a very interesting way to use delicious I other wise wouldn’t have really considered it useful except to check out what some of my friends think is value in different arenas. There’s a definite disconnect between typical SERPs and what “power users” are looking for sometimes.
Cameron, I found you via your post at Neil’s site… I agree, delicious is a useful tool. It’s better than a search engine, because you have the metadata related specifically to links. Find a high # of common tags… you must have found something good!
PS–I’m adding you to my feeds…