There have been so many search engines - big ones, little ones, niche and general, algorithmic and social - the list goes on. The point is, we aren't unaware of those who have gone before us...and if we .are we hope you'll share a pull request or shoot us an email at [email protected].
In this document we will briefly mention a number of these predecessors and, where helpful, explain why we believe individual endeavors were unsuccessful and how we believe we can overcome similar problems.
Technically Blekko didn't die, it was acquired by IBM, who in their wisdom closed Blekko. The lesson here is one seen often with web search engines: acquisition usually means death.
We don't think there is anything particularly wrong with being acquired or having acquisition as an end game - but that isn't what nextsearch is about...we'll be looking to flesh out exactly how we'll ensure this in the future.