Is there really a market group for more Search Engines?

So guys and gurls.

Is there really more room on the internet for more search engines?

What does everybody think? Surely peoples minds are already cluttered with google, yahoo and other search engines that hit the market years ago.

Express your opinions here.

Andy
www.mkforum.org

No, not really.

There has never been someone not on google at one time, everyone knows it. Ask anyone to name an internet search engine and google would be first.

You would have to invest in $xxx,xxx to market your engine, to even get it spread around half the world.

There isn't room for another major general search engine as Google, Yahoo and MSN have that market well and truly covered.

That doesn't mean there isn't a market for search engines that are topic specific though. Finding what your looking for on Google and co can be hard and going through all the results they list is quite tedious. Search engines that only list sites on a specific topic could be successful, for example torrent search engines are quite popular or I dunno you could have one that focuses on football videos or I don't know any topic at all that you can think of where the results brought back by google aren't always going to be that perfect. I dunno, something obscure with a good size target audience would be good.

You'd need to develop a good powerful search engine though because the results your SE provides on your specific topic would need to be better than the results google and co produce for that topic otherwise no one is going to use it. You'd need to market it well too obviously as it's only going to target a certain group of people you'd need that group of people to know about it. You'd also be competing not just with search engines but with similar directory's too (does anyone even still use those things to actually find sites?)

Wouldn't be easy...

There's no gap in the market - that's for sure. With enough money, anything is possible. But it would cost a ridiculous amount.

There's always room for everything on the Internet
There are tons of every kind of site out there, still people continue making new ones ... and each one is unique like the rest!
It will just be a lot harder. Before google people didn't use google right?
So why don't you make sure there comes a time were people speak about 'after google'? You can do it. I believe in you!!!

The internet is a vast network and there can always be room for new players in every niche. So I would say yes! But to compete with big search engines is tough undertaking

Mixrat is right. I myself own a search engine and have a 2gb of free email service. Im not here to compete against Google etc, but to me its alot of fun. Im doing okay. I make enough to pay for my dedicated server and thats all that matters to me.