The growing field of real-time search lets consumers discover what's happening right now, but what if they want to find out what's happening tomorrow, or this weekend? Goby, a new search engine, is hoping to fill that gap.
Goby is designed to help find "fun ways to spend your time." Instead of the usual single search field provided by Google, Yahoo, and Bing, Goby offers three fields: what, where, and when. Goby's search spiders don't crawl the entire web like the big search engines, but instead focus on databases of activities, according to a MediaPost report.
The search engine isn't perfect yet, though. Goby doesn't correct misspellings in queries like the other leading search engines, so a search for "huanted houses" returns zero results and no suggestions for other search terms.
Goby currently has no advertising, but there are plans to incorporate paid search listings, according to the report.
