Could a simple search engine run by one guy actually deliver a better search experience than either Google or Bing? Well, for some searches at least, Gabe Weinberg’s search engine DuckDuckGo delivers both better search results and an easier-to-navigate presentation of those results than the big guys.

Granted, I’ve only just started using DuckDuckGo, but so far I’m impressed. The clean interface is a throw-back to the original version of Google (i.e. spacious with no paid ads) and Gabe Weinberg’s privacy policy – whereby it does NOT store your search requests – is a refreshing change from the standard search engine policy to store everyone’s search history.

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Scribe SEO, a product developed to help bloggers to be able to see the mishaps in their writing and hopefully improve their SEO writing skills has been released to the blogosphere. Brian Clark of Copyblogger introduced Scribe SEO to his tribal followers this February 2010.

Brian and co developers claim that SEO Copywriting is difficult and they have put an end to the confusion for the average blogger by creating a tool that…

• Analyzes what you have already written to preserve your natural flow of writing
• Claims to tell you what search engines will think you have written about
• Gives you advice on what to change in you articles to make them more SEO Friendly

To give the tool a fair chance I signed up on their free trial offer to run the tool through some hoops. After writing two very specific posts about this exact tool “Scribe SEO” and after using this tool to analyze where I fit with my SEO copywriting skills I found that the tool could not even recognize it’s own self as a keyword.

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