while, i’m not jumping on the google is eeeeeeevil bandwagon, i do think that diversity and competition are good things. i don’t know if i’d go as far as the title implies, but “In Practice AllTheWeb Best!!” does show that the perceived dominance of google in returning relevant results is mistaken:
“A bench test study of Google and contender AllTheWeb/FAST reveals some weaknesses in Google’s offering. From a user’s perspective, all the Web/FAST is, in practice, a sounder search engine than Google. However, Google delivers fresher content with a greater percentage of pages being present in its database from individual sites.”
[ via webword ]