Alternatives to Google-Going on an Expedition for the Perfect Search Engine
Compiled by Charles Knight http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines_feb07.php
AllTha.at |
www.allth.at |
The search engine that keeps on looking. |
Ask Mobile |
www.m.ask.com |
Mobile search engine from Ask.com |
ASK VOX |
www.askvox.com |
A second talking female user interface. |
AnswerBus |
www.answerbus.com |
Ask in English, French, Spanish, German or Italian. |
Blabline |
www.blabline.com |
Podcast / videocast search engine |
blinkx |
Video Search |
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boing |
Search the Mobile web |
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bookmach.com |
Searches for posts related to your keywords. |
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ChaCha |
Human Guides are available to aid in your search. |
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ClipBlast! |
Video Search |
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Clusty |
Clustering search engine |
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collarity |
Behavioral personalized search / Collarity Compass |
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CONGOO |
Searches for Premium Content |
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crossEngine |
www.crossengine.com |
Searches Search Engines; formerly mrSAPO |
d e c i p h o |
Behavioral personalized search / Social Meter |
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Ditto |
Visual search engine |
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Dogpile |
MetaSearch Engine |
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dumbfind |
Featuring the Two-Box search method. |
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exalead |
Web / Image search with a European flavor |
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factbites |
Search Result snippets are complete sentences. |
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fazzle |
Search engine that emphasizes Boolean Search |
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filangy |
www.filangy.com |
Personalized Search Engine |
FIND FORWARD |
Multi-featured search engine; check this one out! |
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FindSounds |
Search for sound effects and musical samples. |
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FyberSearch |
www.fybersearch.com |
Parent site for some interesting new search engines. |
GIGABLAST |
A multi-featured search engine. |
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girafa |
Visual search engine - results are thumbnails |
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gnod |
Oustanding recommendation search engines |
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gnosh |
www.gnosh.org |
Metasearch engine |
GoLexa |
"COMPLETE page analysis for each result." |
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goshme Beta 3.0 |
A search engine for search engines. Top 10 pick. |
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GoYams |
Metasearch engine where you select the mix. |
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grokker |
A multi-featured meta-search engine. |
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GRUUVE |
www.gruuve.com |
Groovy music recommendation search engine. |
hakia |
www.hakia.com |
"Meaning based" search engine |
ICEROCKET |
Blog search engine |
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ixquick |
Metasearch engine |
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KartOO |
Visually appealling clustering search engine |
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Lexxe |
Natural language processing (NLP) search engine |
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like |
Visual shopping engine; see also riya |
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liveplasma |
Attractive music / movies clustering / recommendation engine |
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Local.com |
Search for local businesses, products, and services |
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lurpo |
Searches for custom Google search engines |
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mamma |
www.mamma.com |
metasearch engine |
MetaGlossary |
Searches for definitions, phrases and acronyms. |
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mnemomap |
Clustering search engine |
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Mojeek |
Customize your own personal search engine. |
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Mooter |
Clustering search engine |
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mrquery |
www.mrquery.com |
Metasearch engine / metasearch providers |
MS. DEWEY |
Unique user interface - enough said. |
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Omgili |
www.omgili.com |
Social community search engine |
onkosh |
www.onkosh.com |
Arabic / English Search Engine |
Pagebull |
Visual results search engine |
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pipl |
http://pipl.com |
People search engine |
PlanetSearch |
Metasearch engine |
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PolyMeta |
www.polymeta.com |
Metasearch and clustering search engine |
pronto.com |
Metasearch engine |
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qksearch |
www.qksearch.com |
Multi-featured "3-in-1" multi-search engine |
Quintura |
Clustering search engine with a new interface |
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Quintura for kids |
http://kids.quintura.com/ |
Search engine for kids by Quintura |
RedZee |
Search Engine with nice preview results |
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retrievr |
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/ |
Visual search engine |
riya |
Visual search engine; see also Like |
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scirus |
http://scirus.com |
Scientific information only search engine |
searchbots |
www.searchbots.net |
Have a little fun, create your own searchbot. |
SearchTheWeb2 |
Search The Popular Head and The Long Tail |
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sidekiq |
Multi-category search engine. Very nice. |
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Slideshow |
Displays search results as a moving slideshow. |
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Slifter |
A mobile shopping search engine. |
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soople |
A simplified version of Google's search options. |
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Speegle |
The speeglebot talks to you. |
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Sphere |
www.sphere.com |
A blog search engine. |
Sproose |
www.sproose.com |
Social search engine |
S R C H R |
Metasearch engine |
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SurfWax |
Meaning-based search engine |
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Swamii |
www.swamii.com |
Search engine that keeps on searching for you. |
Swoogle |
Semantic Web search engine |
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thefind.com |
Shopping search engine |
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Trexy |
Follow "trails" and "trailblazers" with Trexy. |
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turboscout |
Metasearch engine |
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TWERQ |
www.twerq.com |
Multi-category search engine with tabbed results. |
UJIKO |
A fun interface where you can vote on the results. |
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url.com |
"Search with many" community metasearch engine. |
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VMGO.com |
Vote on the search results with emoticons. |
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WASALive |
www.wasalive.com |
A new member of the list. |
Web 2.0 |
Web 2.0 search engines |
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WEBBRAIN |
Clustering "see the web" search engine. |
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whonu? |
Deluxe metasearch engine. |
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WIKIO |
"Live information from 33981 media and blogs" |
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Windows Live Mobile |
www.wls.live.com |
Windows Live Mobile search engine |
WiseNut |
Clustering search engine |
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Yahoo! Mobile |
http://m.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Mobile search engine |
Yahoo! MINDSET |
Intention-driven search; commercial versus research |
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yoono |
People-rated community web search |
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yoople |
Yoople! = Yahoo! + Google + People |
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yubnub |
Use command lines to search the web. |
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ZABASEARCH |
People and Public Information Search Engine. |
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zapmeta |
Metasearch engine |
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Zippy |
Search engine for webmasters |
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ZUULA |
Multi-category, multi-search engine, with good tabs. |