Make your searches fun - alternatives to Google

Posted on August 24, 2007 by miroslodki

Tired of typing into your search engine?

Want to listen to it?  Talk to it?  Have it recommend things? Plot results in clouds/clusters? 

For those interested - there is an intriguing post by Charles Knight who lists various alternate search engines to Google and the other main stream engines (Yahoo, MSN, ASK) which today account for the overwhelming majority of searches.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php

You may even consider www.scroogle.com  if you have any data privacy concerns.

Here is another link from PCWORLD with a review of alternative search engines

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133265-c,searchengines/article.html

One thing for certain - you do have some interesting choices.

Have fun!

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2 Responses to “Make your searches fun - alternatives to Google”

  1. Charles Knight, on August 24th, 2007 at 8:12 pm Said:

    Hi! The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines now has its own blog: http://www.altsearchengines.com!

    The whole blog is about alternative search engines, all day, every day.

    Please check it out.

    Charles Knight, editor
    AltSearchEngines.com

  2. Wikia Search http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ « miro, on January 7th, 2008 at 11:45 am Said:

    [...] 7, 2008 by miroslodki I have written about alternatives to the Google search engine in the past and while Google does a great job of innovating - they are the giant of search engines [...]

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