Having said that, it is true that Google is and will rule the Search Engine market for a long time to come. For a search query like “brief history of Jaipur”, Google has about half a million results while Bing only produced about sixty thousand. What’s funny about Bing is that the first result was from something completely irrelevant to the search term. It gave a website from a school that has a hostel named as Jaipur House! This query did not produce any result on Google Squared or Wolfram Alpha.

I thought of looking for something more intelligent. After all, Internet is supposed to be a place for research and I personally believe that if there is no learning from it, there is no use. I tried to look for the “distance of sun to moon”. I think it is different because there may be several websites about distance of sun from earth and moon from earth.

Google had the first result from Wikipedia, the entry for Moon. It didn’t give any information about the distance but the third result was from Wiki answers and it was the one I was looking for. Of course this could be better, like Bing. The first result was from Wiki answers and the excerpt was on target. What’s more, I could also place my mouse over the result and see the preview of the website, getting more information about my query.

Sadly, Google Squared didn’t bring anything out, which made me realize that it is not meant for such queries. The best answer was from Wolfram Alpha, the clear winner here! It told me that the Sun was 1.016 AU away from the moon. An AU is an Astronomical Unit and another query told me the meaning of 1.016 AU in KMs, along with the values in Miles, Meters, Minutes (travel at the speed of light), and comparison of the distance with other similar entities.

This is what I call intelligent search! I am looking forward to a great Search Engine, which will help people find information that they can use. Black Hat and White Hat wearers have already spammed Google database and the websites looks more like link directories. Information is being replaced by Keywords and content by strategy!