Apparently old search engines don’t die, people just stop using them.
Seeing that Cuil.com had gone offline after some of the good work they were doing, and seeing some of the things they are working on at Blekko http://bit.ly/cgDX5E makes me wonder if anyone can truly compete with google’s dominance. It is surprising that so many of the old search engines, who had previously built a name, are still online.
Riddle me this batman… google gives hotbot.com a pagerank of 8 (?)