The Ultimate Quick Guide to your Information Destination - A List of 100 Search Sites and Tools

A new Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list!

By Guest Author M.E. Simpson

Original article appeared here, 6/14/09:

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/06/19/a-new-top-100-alternative-search-engines-list/

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While conducting the research and search engine checking I did while compiling this very eclectic list of search engines, directories, tools and stuff correlated, I realized that there are some very competitive trends in a few directions. The most prominent of these seems to be the effort to make the most artificially intelligent NLP, or Natural Language Process, that can be utilized in a search engine. More and more, search engines are looking for ways to make technology which “understands” context, synonyms, meanings, inverted phrases, and more - and well, most of them have been pretty successful at it.

A further trend I noticed is the emphasis on search consequences bent in “real-time,” and I am still not sure I grasp that concept…I mean, aren’t all consequences delivered in real time? What other kind of time is there? Is there like, reproduction time? When a search result pops up with I’ve input a search term, that time sure feels real to me….even more real at 3a.m, with working on an article for the past 9 hours, when my butt has turned numb, and my neck feels like it’s in a vice. But yes, there is a newer method of finding fresher, more immediately published material on a continually updated basis - which search engines are now competent of retrieving. This is mainly right with news, blog, and social search engines, all which serve a more immediate need for currency, trends, and “what’s hot.”

That being said, I feel I must apologize, because the following list is a bit helter-skelter. It starts with some search engines from a list that was provided to me by the very alternative-search-engine knowledgeable Charles Knight, so that I may possibly include some of the newest and most well loved search engines – many of which still seem to be undergoing construction and additions. This is not an alphabetized list, nor even a categorized list, but simply listed in the order that I searched and found each search engine, directory, or whatever. The newest ones are first, some of the middle or semi-recent alternative search engines are in the middle - also thankfulness to Charles Knight - and then some of the grown-up favorites are last. Although, you may find that even this is not entirely a perfect list description either.

I hope this list helps anyone looking for stuff they can’t find. Though I had a decent thought of what kind of alternative search engines are out there, I learned some things for myself. Have fun looking them all up; some are extremely useful and save a lot of time on specific searches, some of them really are incredible, and others are just plain cool. I have at least 30 of these saved on my own favorites list, and all of them are worthwhile.

Some Newer Search Engines:

1. One Riot.com is one of the coolest and best new social search engines that searches the web in real time. Users find the freshest and newest social news, blogs and videos on OneRiot, because this real time search engine delivers consequences as they emerge.

2. Bing.com – in the course of writing this article, Bing went from nearly ready to fully available as a search engine. It is what Microsoft is calling a “Pronouncement engine,” fully equipped with intuitive features that will deliver more relevant and quicker consequences for your “pronouncement-making.” Like many other new search engines and sites, Bing can answer direct questions, such as “What is the capital of Moldova?” It can also differentiate synonyms and is equipped to compute human language, rather than just text or keywords of a search query.

3. Eeggi.com - an acronym that stands for engineered, encyclopedic, global and grammatical identities) and claims to be the planet’s first “Information engine,” according to the website. With eeggi, searches can include synonyms, know and differentiate between words such as “know” and “comprehend,” and be able to analyze and work around the differences in their meanings. Eeggi also reduces irrelevant search consequences, as long as only specific and detailed queries, as well as search several languages at once, find conclusive and deductive consequences, respond to users directing search magnitude, and respond to direct questions.

4. Powerset.com – this is the first search engine that developed a human language search function, meaning that it is an attempt to have computers know the way we talk. Though Powerset for now, only searches wiki articles, it also answers questions directly, and can know your words, instead of just text – you can express your search in keywords, phrases, or direct questions. Because of Powerset, several other “human language” search engines have been brought into the web search engine planet.

5. SurfCanyon.com – this is a powerful new free browser extension that personalizes and optimizes your search on any search engine or directory, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, Craigslist, and more. The software “figures out” what you want, and them makes relevant suggestions, much like Jinni.com does for movies.

6. Imprezzeo.com – an image search engine that allows you to search for other images with examples of images – essentially, it is an image-oriented search engine, that uses images for both reference and consequences.

7. Yahoo! BOSS – the BOSS is an acronym for Build your Own Search Service. This is a project by Yahoo to encourage innovation in search engines. Using Boss, anyone can add their thoughts, content, and data to Yahoo’s Boss system to make their own unique search engine, by utilizing Yahoo’s entire search index, crawling, page rank and relevancy algorithms.

8. Deep Web Technologies – in addition to being a search engine itself, it also has powered and made an enormous collective of research search engines under the name. Due to its powerful deep web reach, finding information and relevance that most search engines cannot reach, and also working in real time; Deep Web Technologies has made several search engines under its main name:

9. Biznar – re-searches for businesses

10. ScienceResearch.com – a science research engine, with multiple advanced options, and personalized options for customized research

11. Mednar – health check research engine

12. Scitopia.org – a science, technology and engineering search engine for researchers, focusing on scholarly documents

13. WorldWideScienceAlliance – a global search engine gateway that provides access to national and international databases and portals

14. Collecta.com – though they have not launched yet, their site claims to be the web’s most powerful real time search engine, posting photos and posts from sites like Twitter, WordPress, Flickr, and more. What makes them uncommon from other real-time search engines remains to be seen.

15. Taptu.com – a search engine engineered specifically for mobile devices, like the iPhone and the iTouch.

16. Yottalook.com - a free health check imaging search engine that provides pronouncement support at the top of care using proprietary relevance and ranking algorithms by iVirtuoso, and is designed to provide the practicing radiologists the most vital and most relevant information they need at the time of patient care.

17. Cooliris.com – an imaging search engine, plug-in, browser add-on, and mobile imaging contrivance that displays search images on a 3-D wall, and has many other very effective features that offer quick and colorful ways to both search and show images, photos and videos.

18. Tazti.com – a speech recognition search tool that can be downloaded to any browser for special needs and hands free searches

19. Viewzi.com – an image search engine that displays search consequences as a mini-screen that you can flip through as though they are a picture gallery – this means that page rank becomes less of an issue, because of how quick you can flip through consequences. Viewzi also can be downloaded as a plug-in or add-on.

20. LiveHit.com – a new “social service discovery” that is more than a further social network site, it also features the use of many blog search engine tools, showing you what’s hot, and what will become hot, with a special news/actions/topic prediction as part of its functions. As with any social networking, an account is required, but it is free.

21. Gazopa.com – a “akin image search service” which allows you to search images using your own photos, drawings, web images and keywords. You can also search for a akin image by extracting a color or shape from a further image. Because many images are hard to clarify with text, GazoPa allows you to use incomplete images and image characteristics to find other images you’re looking for.

22. Kosmix – a general search engine that brings up a magazine-like search result when a search term, phrase or keyword is place in, everything definitions, to relevant associations, videos in this area the topic, articles, photos, blogs, news, and more. Rather than bringing up one result on one topic, it interprets the searched word or phrase and brings up all areas of relevancy, in multiple web forms and media.

23. Worio – according to their site, “Worio is a discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you’ve been missing using search lonely.” Worio also personalizes your search, and “learns” your interests through various methods. When a search term or keywords are input, many other well loved consequences are provided with associations to Youtube, Wiki, news sites, and so on, with relevance to the search term. Worio also offers a Store and a Friends page, both which require accounts, for which you can save all tagged pages, and socially network with friends on facebook.

24. SearchMe – According to their “in this area” page, SearchMe “lets you see what you’re searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you’ll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you’re looking for, before you click through.” Effectively, SearchMe is a multimedia search engine that allows you to search for search topics in text, music, video, blogs, news, and more, and also displays its search consequences in the same multi-media presentation, with a amalgamation of both multimedia and non-multimedia search consequences.

25. Pixsy.com – a further search engine that has options of music, video, entertainment and news searches, but seems to require a certain download to be installed, in order to bring up relevant consequences. I typed in “Explosions in the Sky” under the music search, and it brought up a page with a bunch of explosions in Iraq; at the top of the page it said, “sorry, you have not installed AJAX..” I was looking for a band, not actual explosions, so I haven’t quite figured this engine out yet.

26. TheFindGreen.com – a shopping search engine that focuses on green products, stores, sell, and local searches that offer the same.

27. Truevert.com – a further green search engine, that also focuses on context instead of just text. For instance, if you type in [hybrid cars], the consequences will be more in this area how to convert your car to run on vegetable oil or something, not a bunch of Acura and Honda advertisements.

28. Greenmaven – a further green search engine that focuses on green and sustainable websites and topics. They also offer research tools, and an candid mission to strengthen the economy through opening the green collective to the web.

29. Videosurf – a free video search engine that searches CNN, Comedy Inner, ESPN, Hulu, YouTube, and more for any video, including full t.v. episodes. It’s a step up from Hulu and Fancast, because of its search engine.In this area.com – an answer directory, sort of a mixture of an encyclopedia, search directory, and trend site.

30. Mytopia – an online gaming community that stretches across both web and mobile platforms, enabling users to have profiles, avatars, chat, messaging, leaderboards, tournaments and competitions in real-time on their iphones, Blackberrys, Razors, Windows mobile, and many other smartphones and mobile operating systems, as well as on Facebook and Open Social.

31. GoPlanit – a recommendation engine that plans a trip for you in advance or as you go, with flight, house to stay, restaurant and activity recommendations. User account is required, but the site is free to use, and may take a small time to learn how to use the sight.

32. Tweegee – offers each tween-aged user to make their own private website, message through email and chat, play online games, make their own characters, read news relevant to their age group, and write their own articles – all in all, an extremely unique and creative social networking site for tween-aged youngsters

33. Ấngströ – a people search site for businesses, something kind of resembling a background try out, but it pulls from sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for information and profiling, for businesses and people needing information on companies and individuals.

34. Popego – a social/recommendation/browser/search that sets you up with your own interests on the web, by searching and filtering out specific videos, articles, news, blogs, and other things that match your private interests.

35. Mixtt – a new social networking site all ears on arranging social grouping and meeting according to city. Unlike most social networking sites that simply aim to enhance time spent online, Mixtt encourages users to meet offline, and mingle with those that would be normally “outside” their normal group of friends and acquaintances, not only a propos who they know, but a propos those that may otherwise be outside their typical subgroup or socially respective common interests. MIXTT is a fantastic source for establishing a new and exciting social life, professional networking, dating, play-time, or any aspect of life that can benefit from an simpler and creative way of meeting new and uncommon people. MIXTT encourages people, albeit perhaps passively, to break down barriers of social, socioeconomic, and even racial barriers that may inhibit people from becoming friends, which is truly an admirable quest.

36. Grockit – this is a fantastic amalgamation of a learning and social site, where people learn information by teaching each other in a game-style platform. Grockit users can study for their GMATs, GREs, LSATs, SATs, ACTs, MCATs and more in a creative, fun, and social online environment. A fantastic study and social tool for high teach, college, and post-graduate users.

37. Bojam – a site that brings both professional and serious amateur musicians collectively by allowing them to upload their music, edit and team up with other musicians from around the planet. It’s a amalgamation of a both a web-recording studio, and a social platform for musicians to mingle, mix, and play music collectively with those that match their style and interests. A brilliant engine for as long as outlets and searches for other musicians and music to enhance and use any user’s musical ambitions.

38. Deepdyve – a deep web academic search engine that currently searches for scholarly research on health check and life sciences, and is working to expand their academic topics and broader research sources.

39. iSeek – is what they call a targeted discovery engine, and was voted by The Search Race to be the best Alternative Search Engine last year. iSeek can target and narrow your search consequences according to topic, source, house, time and date, locations, people, assets, definitions, and also has an additional education search engine. iSeek is certainly a search engine to keep on your favorites list to often use, as it is one o the best alternative search engines out there.

Some Middle Search Engines:

40. Ixigo – a travel, hiking, biking and bussing search engine, with features like blogs by experts in this area do’s and don’ts of a biking adventure or trip, flight and voucher searches, and much more.

41. Joost – a television, music and video search engine that makes recommendations in addition to traditional title and name searches; it also features blogs, groups and a user-recommended list of shows, movies and music according to searched choices.

42. Jogli – a music search engine where you can search millions of artists, songs, lyrics, musicians, etc.

43. Kindernet – a search engine mainly for children, which not only provides search consequences relevant to kids, but also provides a childproof search consequences index.

44. Myperfect.com.au – a “choice” engine that finds your perfect “thing” by asking you questions and as long as a list of consequences, eventually narrowing it down in anticipation of you find the perfect one. The home page starts you off by suggesting looking for your favorite beer, buzz, camera, career, and so on, then takes you to a page where you are questioned questions that help establish how to narrow the search consequences – a very innovative way to search for something you like, or even for something you are not quite sure how to find for yourself. I place this one on my favorites list immediately, I thought it was a fabulous search tool.

45. Nozasearch – if any of you have ever had any experience in non-profit organizations, you know how many of them struggle with funding. Nozasearch helps find charitable organizations and donors for non-profit organizations and charities, with features of advanced search and local searches. A fantastic search that is making a proactive contribution to planet peace and prosperity.

46. Samepoint – a conversation search engine, which in my opinion, is a brilliant kind of search engine. It varies from fixed blog search engines because it searches more than blogs for the conversations that contain your search, and it varies from other search engines because it searches pages that expire and/or are never indexed at all, due to their techie smarts.

47. RSS micro – an RSS feed search engine that offers narrowed consequences according to date and time the feeds were published in hours, days, weeks, or anytime. It also provides search consequences in real-time, allowing for the newest and freshest RSS feeds published.

48. Newstree.org – an alternative news search that searches your topic through news media that is not associated with major coporations. For example, when I searched “outsourcing,” it gave me search consequences from truthout.org, Democratic Underground, and Planet Net Daily. A fantastic tool for finding small seen or heard news, as well offbeat topics.

49. Megaglobe – an international/global search engine, that not only focuses on global news, economy, politics, legal matters, top tales, and more, but also offers a feature that allows you to question a question, which is then answered by other users – a pretty cool feature for a search engine.

50. Sproose – this is sort of like a reverse recommendation engine, or what Sproose calls a recommendation-voting engine, and is the only one of its kind. Users establish the page rank of consequences by voting on them when the input a search. Sproose also offers recommendation articles, videos and products based upon user searches.

51. Artcyclopedia – an art search directory, that allows you to search by title of work, artist, or the style of art, such as abstract expressionism, art nouveau, post-impressionism, Renaissance, and so on. For each stylistic search, it offers several past and contemporary artists to further research. Thus far, this is one of the best general art search sites I’ve found.

52. Swotti – a product search engine that allows you to search, rate and compare products in over 20 categories like music, entertainment, literature, movies, videos, and more.

53. Sensebot – an information search engine or browser plug-in that summarizes multiple web pages in your search consequences, for a quicker pronouncement-making process to establish the consequences that are more relevant.

54. Swamii – the site calls itself “the what’s new engine,” but it is basically a “continual” search engine. The way it works starts with a user account, followed by the user entering any information or searches in this area stuff they want unremitting alerts on, and Swamii then alerts the user on an ongoing basis in this area the input search. Really, this is a fantastic tool for someone that writes in this area stuff on an ongoing basis, or is responsibility research over a period of time, or even someone with a leisure activity or pursuit that wants to keep up with it.

55. Trovit – a classifieds search engine that serves 11 uncommon countries, where users can find apartments, jobs, cars and more.

56. Twing – a search engine that searches forums, such as music forums, art forums, green forums, and more.

57. Zvents – an actions search engine that provides local searches for festivals, live music, theater performances, shows and performances, concerts, and more. You can also promote an event on this search engine as well, or look for the ideal thing to that is in close reach of your local area.

58. USAspending.gov – a search engine that allows the user to find out just so where their tax dollars are going, on either a federal or state level; for instance if you want to find out how your state used a grant or loan, or how monies are distributed for any federal government program, this site facilitates that, as well as provides information on grants and loans for various entities and individuals.

59. Zeadoo – a search tool that allows you to search all your favorites from one page; you can import your favorites list, or download the Zeadoo extension to your browser.

60. Zocdoc – this search site is mainly handy if you’ve just gotten new health indemnity and need to find a doctor and/or dentist in your area that accepts your indemnity – Zocdoc searches just those kinds of things for you.

61. Cognition.com – an NLP search tool that has very sophisticated and advanced abilities to compute human language and semantics, while also retaining high relevance in consequences

62. Factbites – in addition to delivering search consequences for search queries, this search engine also lists the consequences in simple sentences, so that a user may more clearly know what the web page is in this area, and how relevant it is to the search

63. Faroo – I feel slightly biased in this area this site, simply because it is one of the most idealistic out there, and I have not yet come across a further one like it. This is a peer-to-peer website, where users passively choose page-rank algorithms, determined by which pages are looked at for a fastidious search. Not only that, but Faroo has a democratic, and nearly even a socialist approach to their revenue – they share publicity revenue with users that have accounts. This is one of the best ways I’ve seen a company try to defeat the beast of monopoly.

64. BlogDimension – this blog search engine doesn’t just search blogs in its index, but also podcasts, online videos, images and microblogs, such as on Twitter.

65. Feefiefoefirm – a law firm search engine, something that may possibly come in really handy when you want to sue MacDonald’s for getting a cup of hot coffee spilled on your arm.

66. Evri – this search engine is attempting to network contextually relevant information in this area a specific person, house or thing with other corresponding articles, blogs, etc found on the web; Evri also makes recommendation based upon searches

67. Exalead – the lay-out of search consequences on Exalead gives you several options – fixed text lay-out, text and thumbnail lay-out, and text, thumbnail with extra info lay-out. Exalead also offers narrowed searches according to multimedia, directory, correlated associations, correlated terms and more.

68. Hakia – hakia narrows down search consequences to the most credible web pages and web sites in your search consequences, in order to save time wasted on consequences that may appear relevant, or have correlated content a propos a fastidious search, but that stem from less-than-credible sites. Hakia strives to eliminate those through ontological and semantic NLP technology.

69. GenieKnows – this unique small search engine is sort of a cross between a local search and a travel search. It searches all over Canada and the U.S., allowing users to find things like “where to find antiques in Montreal,” or “the best plastic surgeons in NYC,” or even small town information in this area actions, places and people.

70. iSearch – a free people search that simply allows users to search for people using their first and last names and location, their email address, buzz digit or even their screen name.

71. I’mVivo – a social search engine that is a social network as well; it searches social media and networks, fixed media, and other content to produce search consequences, with the most well loved social pages being the highest ranking.

72. LoanKrunch – a loan search engine that allows you to compare loan rates for real estate, cars, private loans, and more, without divulging any private information, so that you can find your ideal loan company or bank, without a bunch of hard research.

73. KoolTorch – a search tool that can be added to your browser in order to organize and visually lay-out search consequences on a page in a clean, simplistic graph of up to 100 consequences per page.

74. Grokker – a sophisticated enterprise search engine management tool (whew that is a mouthful) for businesses and research that provides federated search to millions of databases for a huge index of search assets, as well as visualization techniques that allow users to know and review their search consequences through things like narrowed topical columns, filters, graphs, and much more.

75. CrimeSpider – a crime and law enforcement search engine that categorizes crimes and their websites, so that you don’t have to go to each website looking for the one that fits your search.

..And some Grown-up Favorites:

76. Clusty – Clusty is a meta search engine, but also delivers the search consequences in clusters for simpler viewing – the best of both cluster and meta search engines

77. Scirus – a science search engine that is oriented more for everyday web users, rather than high-brow research; but Scirus only search scientific web pages and likewise with the search consequences.

78. Lyricsmode – a music lyrics search directory, that allows you to search according to keyword, artist, song title, or genre

79. AjaxWhois – a domain name search engine that will tell you straight away if the domain name you want for your website is available or not.

80. EducationWorld – an educational search engine that not only focuses on educational material and websites, but also offers assets for teachers as well. This search engine has one of the broader education spans than some academic search engines with more all ears topical circumferences.

81. Answers.com – a fact search and answer engine, and has also been around for a while.

82. Question.com - one of the most well loved alternative search engines; some of their features include search consequences that offer stock quotes, well-known people, smart answers(answering direct questions) and a binocular-style preview at other websites.

83. Chacha – an grown-up human-derived answer engine, that offers categories and can also be used from mobile phones by through text, or calls.

84. Demandbase.com – a business to business search engine that identifies which visitors are visiting a business site, targets those that fit in to the business’s target market, and helps to turn web traffic into sales leads.

85. Dmoz.org –the oldest and most comprehensive human-edited directory on the web, maintained and constructed by a vast global community of volunteer editors.

86. Dogpile – one of the grown-up and well-known meta-search engines; it searches Google, Yahoo! Windows Live Search Question.com, and delivers search consequences from a huge index of relevant pages.

87. FamousLocations – a movie location search, which comes in really handy when you want to go see a movie, and cannot for the life of you figure out how to find out movie theater times…much less where they are.

88. Firstgov.gov – The U.S. Government’s authoritative web portal, and probably the largest legal/law search sites available

89. GoshMe – a search engine that searches meta search engines, which search other search engines – in other words, a meta, meta search engine

90. Happyhour.com – a beer search engine! How cool is that.

91. Icerocket – a blog search engine, that offers some really cool features, such “Ice Spy,” that searches what other searchers are searching for, a host for RSS feeds, blog trackers, and top blog trends delivered on the home page that take no searching at all.

92. Indeed.com – a meta-search engine for jobs

93. Info.com - a meta-search engine that searches Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, Question.com and In this area.com

94. Jinni– a movie search site that allows you type in a genre and vital plot of a movie, and either matches a movie to your description, or suggests movies that fit your taste. Fantastic thought for movie buffs.

95. Kartoo – a clustering search; it delivers search consequences in a uncommon visual presentation of side to side filtering, rather than in a release-file list; it also offers options to change the way the consequences are delivered

96. LinkedIn – a business to business social networking site, with features that allow business to link up under a akin business interest to attract clients, employees, advertisers, and more.

97. Nyfa.org – a directory of artistic jobs, juried and non-juried shows accepting submissions, fellowships, residencies, and opportunities that are available in NYC and other areas.

98. Quintara – a really unique search engine that offers visual manipulation and navigation; it has unique features like a list of visual search options on the left hand column and text consequences on the left, and a web search specifically just for kids, allowing them to search with visual skills, rather than having to read everything and become confused. Quintara is one of those search engines that has to be tried yourself in order to really know, because as is the case with most visually-oriented things, its hard to articulate the experience. You just have to experience it.

99. SearchEdu.com – one of the best and largest educational and academic search sites

100. SovLit.com – a search site for and in this area Russian Literature

101. Topix.net – a news search engine, that offers searches and home page listings of most recent news and top tales narrowed search consequences according to news sources, local news searches, and an straightforwardly navigable magazine style lay-out.

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