Not Finding Everything On Evri

Evri is a new search engine. Like many new search engines, Evri has a gimmick. The basic idea is to "explore connections" between subjects, accomplished with a diagram that actually draws connections between related subjects. Here is an example with one of the suggested topics on the Evri front page, Lance Armstrong:

We can see some related subjects (though they are skewed a bit towards recent news, rather than just basic relation, like say bicycle) connected to Armstrong. Beneath the chart is a snippet from Wikipedia and to the right are some news articles, pictures and videos. This integrated media search is nothing new (Ask has done it, as have multiple "specialty" engines) but the idea is that technology has improved recently to provide for smooth embedding of different types of media. I can watch some videos of Lance Armstrong without reloading the page or leaving Evri thanks to some slick API usage and AJAX-y page transformations.

Let's look for something else though. I always like to search for "car" on new search engines, because that is a topic that should be well covered by any engine, due to the sheer volume of car discussion and knowledge online.

The first result is for Car (royalty), which is about Greek mythology. Ok, not exactly what I was looking for, I just want information on the vehicle. Next we get 2 states, a business exec., sports teams and politicians. Nothing about the cars that you ride in, right? This is actually all you can see, because at the moment it's not possible to return more than 10 results, due to the lack of a "click here for more" choice. Let's click on that Greek mythology result and see what we see.

Pictures of cars, but Wiki information about mythology. Something just isn't adding up here. Add to this the fact that I can actually type too fast for the search box and get repeated errors with parsing my query, and you have a fairly frustrating experience. Evri is a new search engine. However being new is not an excuse to be so limited in your subject matter. The rallying cry of these new sites is "Give it time! Everyone had a small index once!" What bothers me is clearly a lot of the information is being determined by what can be found on Wikipedia, and a search on Wiki can return me all kinds of information on "cars." Also I don't really understand this "wait and see how great the site will be once we get it sorted out," mentality, because there are already perfectly functional engines out there. This should be a lesson to the Web 2.0 world, that if you release a "beta" product that makes a bad first impression, people may not stick it out till version 1.0.