SAN FRANCISCO (April 1, 2002 7:19 a.m. EST) - Apostolos Gerasoulis has a message for everyone who's been relying on Google as an online guide: It's time to move on.
After spending the past six months fine-tuning the technology, Gerasoulis and his development team in Piscataway, N.J., are rolling out a souped-up search engine called Teoma and taking aim at Google, widely regarded as the best way to find anything on the Web.
"We are the next generation in search," said Gerasoulis, a Rutgers University mathematics professor who has had Google in his sights since founding Teoma in 1999. "Google has reached its maturity."
The souped-up version of Teoma's site was launched at 8 p.m. EST Monday. I have been tracking the changes on their web site at http://www.teoma.com for a couple of months, they finally put on the final make-up on their site and launched it, although it's a crappy page in the text browsers. It may take a long time for them to beat up Google, it's worth a try though.
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