Make your searches fun – alternatives to Google

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!