First off I give these guys credit for “trying” to go at it against the masters of the Internet search, Google. According to press releases from all over the Web, the Redball Search Engine based in Austria, is planning on getting right into the search engine arena. What I am not getting is what they truly offer that Google is lacking. In otherwards, why bother to switch to them?

Don’t go running to http://www.redball.info to check out the engine; it hasn’t launched yet and won’t launch until October 1. Unlike many of the search engine announcements I see it a) isn’t trying to index the Web and b) isn’t based on pay-for-inclusion. Instead the site says it will be “listing all public forums and news services,” with an initial 400GB of information on launch.

From their press release: ” More than 100,000 active newsgroups, some 90,000 mailing lists, and a large number of forums demonstrate the potential benefits to internet surfers in these media. Surfers of redball.info will have at their command an average of 10 GB of fresh data each day that was previously inaccessible elsewhere.”