I have been following some of the forum threads mentioned by a previous poster here. The way I read it is the general public & shareholders are not aware of the issues & implications surrounding Ansearch, that is why one would see only a few ringing alarm bells about Ansearch’s activities at this stage.

I don’t see a Tall Poppy Syndrome (requires envy of success) or Slanderous activity (requires false accusations) out there, only folks that have search industry knowledge & insight on their side pointing out what they have learned about the Ansearch way of going about business and traffic acquisition.

Why anyone would call to support a company that trades off the name and goodwill of others (to mention one issue) is beyond my comprehension. Ansearch’s activities are the antithesis of the “Australian Way”. thanks for hearing me :)

If you read the original article I posted and then the thread of comments, you’d see my criticism is of their apparent lack of innovation despite receiving praise for such a thing. If it makes you feel better, think of it as a criticism of the Sydney Morning Herald’s journalistic ability (and, if we were to extend that further, perhaps journalistic integrity as well… but I shan’t extrapolate that one).

There seem to be a very select few who appear on every web forum possible to try to knock down this tall poppy. If these negative PR-spinners spent as much time building up their own businesses with the time trying to generate negativity against this Australian search engine that is offering the industry ‘choice’, they would probably have no time left to think about anyone else’s business.

If you think of Google, Yahoo and MSN who have been around for at least a decade, they have had plenty of time and resources to perfect their offerings. Support Australian business and give these guys a go. No site is perfect; look at Telstra.…not a great site but not doing badly for their shareholders.

Consumers have choice. If you don’t like Ansearch, go elsewhere but what is the point of slandering them when they are simply one of many sites who present users with a search capability. I don’t like Sensis. I go elsewhere but can’t see the benefit in broadcasting negative information.

Freedom of choice.…

Try searching on msn for a term like “ansearch sucks” — THIS page is #1 at the moment.

Try searching on any search engine for “anysearchengine sucks” and you will get results… “sucks” sites are common and often used and are recognised by domain name dispute resolution processes as legit.

Now try searching for the term first mentioned on Ansearch.. nothing? try just “sucks” and look at the “related terms” over on the right — it indicates a “popular” term.. or so one would assume.

I see three choices (not all family friendly) yet clicking on them tells me ‘THERE ARE NO RESULTS”

Now, why would they do that? Censored results? Results that are skewed? Hiding something?

Maybe results like that are the reason why their top 100 are so stale.

interesting!

By the way — where are you seeing the Week March 28, 2005 — it shows Week March 21, 2005 here.

(maybe the results were bad & they had to keep an old one in)