Google Alternatives – Different Search Engines Other Than Google
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Some people just don’t like Google.
Why?
Beats me. I love Google!
But if you don’t, here are some Google alternatives (courtesy of Wikipedia)
By content/topic
General
- Alexa Internet
- Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
- Baidu (Chinese)
- Cuil
- Exalead (French)
- Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Sohu (Chinese)
- Wikia Search
- Yahoo! Search
Geographical limited scope
- Accoona, China/US
- Alleba, Philippines
- Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
- Araby, Middle East
- Baidu, China
- Daum, Korea
- Guruji.com, India
- Goo, Japan
- Leit.is, Iceland
- Miner.hu, Hungary
- Najdi.si, Slovenia
- Naver, Korea
- Onkosh, Middle East
- Rambler, Russia
- Rediff, India
- SAPO, Portugal
- Search.ch, Switzerland
- Sesam, Norway, Sweden
- Walla!, Israel
- Yandex, Russia
- ZipLocal, Canada/US
Accountancy
Business
Enterprise
- See also: Enterprise search
- AskMeNow: S3 – Semantic Search Solution
- Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
- Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
- dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web
- Endeca: Information Access Platform
- Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
- Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
- Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
- Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
- Northern Light
- Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- SAP: TREX
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
- Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
- X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
- ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform
Search Appliances
- Google: Google Search Appliance
Job
- See also: Category:Job search engines
- Bixee.com (India)
- CareerBuilder.com (USA)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Eluta.ca (Canada)
- Hotjobs.com (USA)
- Incruit (Korea)
- Indeed.com (USA)
- Monster.com (USA)
- Recruit.net (International)
- SimplyHired.com (USA)
- TheLadders.com (USA)
Legal
Medical
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- Entrez (includes Pubmed)
- EB-eye EBI’s Search Engine EMBL-EBI’s Search engine
- GenieKnows
- GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO – GeneOntology and MeSH – Medical Subject Headings)
- Healia
- Searchmedica
- WebMD
- PubGene
- Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
News
People
Real property
Video Games
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
Multimedia
- See also: Multimedia search
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Picsearch
- Podscope
- SeeqPod
- Veveo
- YouTube
- Pixsta
- Munax PlayAudioVideo
- Yahoo! Video
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Email
Maps
Price
- Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
- Kelkoo
- MSN Shopping
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- Shopping.com
- ShopWiki
- Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
- TheFind.com
Question and answer
- Answers.com
- AskMeNow
- BrainBoost
- eHow
- hakia
- Lexxe
- Lycos iQ
- Powerset
- Live Search QnA
- Uclue
- Yahoo! Answers
By model
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Egothor
- Gonzui
- Grub
- Ht://dig
- Isearch
- Lucene
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- mnoGoSearch
- Namazu
- Nutch
- OpenFTS
- Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Wikia Search
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Social search engines
- See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine
- ChaCha Search
- Delver
- Eurekster
- Mahalo.com
- OneRiot
- Rollyo
- Trexy
- Wikia search
- Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback
Metasearch engines
- See also: Metasearch engine
- Brainboost
- ChunkIt!
- Clusty
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick
- Kayak
- LeapFish
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- MetaLib
- Mobissimo
- Myriad Search
- SideStep
- Turbo10
- WebCrawler
Visual search engines
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Roger Browne
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January 16, 2009, 4:02 am
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TopThanks for the mention of Uclue. Unlike many of the other services, Uclue is a paid Q&A/research service where researchers will answer customer questions. All of Uclue’s researchers are former Google Answers Researchers.
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Sivaramakrishnan
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January 16, 2009, 9:32 am
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TopI have been using google only till now. But this article has given me a lot of useful alternatives that are well categorized. Thank you and continue your good job.
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Roy
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January 16, 2009, 10:18 am
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TopThanks. this reminds me of a lot of search engines I’ve used in the past and are in some cases better than google.
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Genieknows
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January 16, 2009, 12:26 pm
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TopGenieknows is also a business directory and local search engine.
Thanks for that list though.
Sush.
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Bob
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January 16, 2009, 11:09 pm
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TopI use WebMD a lot, it useful. I surprised my doctor with a new study summary about one on my medical conditions when I went in to see my doctor the other day. Courtesy of WebMD. I like Google News also, it’s a nice meta news site.
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shankar
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January 17, 2009, 1:03 am
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Topofcourse because of the rapid change in technology the people require more easy and advanced way of search..the above information is highly use ful..
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rakesh
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January 17, 2009, 5:00 am
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TopTill now I had been using Google as my search engine. But after reading this i have come to know about a large no of search engines which I could have not known otherwise. Some of the engines which I would now prefer are torrent spy, guruji.com, bixee.com. I really appreciate your work for this wonderful information.
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R.MOHANSUNDAR
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January 17, 2009, 10:44 am
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TopThis is a great site. Which provides lots of results than google. Hats off to you all who are involved in the creation of this and striving hard to make it possible.
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SuzyQ
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January 17, 2009, 2:18 pm
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TopGee, what a huge list of Google alternatives. I will definitely need to print this list out and check some of them out, especially the more specialized search engines. I really do like Google, although lately some of the results seem to be more spammy than informative. I DON’T like Yahoo. I’ve used a few of these in the past but I think it’s good to have options. Thanks again for the list. Keep up the good work!
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historytrivia
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January 18, 2009, 1:00 pm
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TopI’m surprise that Scour search engine is not on the list. Scour rewards its users for searching. What about search engines that are just for kids? I like http://www.askkids.com/ because it is a safe and fun harbor for kids to do research.
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Brian
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January 18, 2009, 5:47 pm
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TopWOW thats alot of search engines. the only ones on there that i recognize are: google, yahoo, mapquest and maybe a few others.
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dan
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January 19, 2009, 2:54 am
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Topgoogle is one of the best search engines that exsit
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Joseph
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January 19, 2009, 12:32 pm
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TopJust for fun I tried some of these and compared the results to Google. Some didn’t give very good results, but a couple of these search engines found sites that Google didn’t have in their results.
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Ankush
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January 19, 2009, 1:20 pm
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TopHey that list was too exhaustive and informative to say the least. But I wanted to know if there are any good search engines to find research articles on net?
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Parit
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January 19, 2009, 4:22 pm
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TopU know google will soon become an monster in all internet (and more)
they\’re making their OS and will become the new vampire blood like and microsoft did u see the ad on youtube? they\’re making big buck by give more and take more (but surely take is more than give)
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Dee
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January 20, 2009, 8:23 am
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TopThe list is very expansive and I will be saving them in my favorites. Google is good but as my grandma always told me there is always one way to skin a cat.
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Jennefer
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January 20, 2009, 9:38 am
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TopIn this world market information is the hottest commodity around. What a treasure to have all these wonderful avenues of obtaining information collected into one convenient location. It certainly cuts my searching time way down and ensures the most targeted results for my query.
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marcus quintilian
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January 20, 2009, 3:47 pm
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Topi like using cha cha search on my phone since its real people answering your questions
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Dave
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January 20, 2009, 3:53 pm
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TopI don’t trust Google, they log everything you do, and keep the records a very long time. It raises real privacy concerns. Thanks for the list of alternatives I can check out.
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Dylan
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January 20, 2009, 6:38 pm
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TopNo idea why anyone would not want to use google, but excellent list of alternatives.
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Larry
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January 20, 2009, 9:39 pm
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TopOf all the SE’s Google has become the largest and most influential with Yahoo sidelining into social bookmarks and the 2 major small SE’s, Live and Ask, slowing becoming more dominant. And I think we are seeing the beginning of a shift toward the smaller SE’s from monster google. I’m looking forward to this because several SE’s competing will perform better than one huge google.
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Amanda
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January 20, 2009, 10:59 pm
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TopI tried livesearch.com and it doesn’t work on my macintosh. Many web 2.0 companies could improve their chances of success by doing basic testing of their user interfaces and not excluding major segments of the population.
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Amanda
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January 20, 2009, 11:05 pm
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TopI don’t know, I am so use to Google, it is really hard for me to try anything else. Other search engines are just too irrelevant on the searches, Google definitely does a better job than anyone else.
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Charlotte
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January 21, 2009, 5:40 am
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TopThank you for the article. I am a regular Google user but sometimes I need alternatives that allow me to find information that is not easy searched for.
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piya
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January 21, 2009, 10:37 am
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Tophey dear thanx a lot!!!
I am regular google user and i tried other search engines but i wasnt confirtable with other sites like yahoo,msn.I wanted to know if there any other search engines which are content specific.Thanxs a lot i was searching for these options quit long.
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moserbr
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January 22, 2009, 7:22 am
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TopI don’t know if I’ll ever be interested in changing from Google — I’ve never had complaints about it. But it is really good to see these things out there. Monopolies are unproductive and competition is always welcome. Thanks so much for spreading the info.
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Sarah
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January 22, 2009, 9:10 am
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TopThat’s quite a list. I don’t know why some people don’t like Google. It’s not that I don’t like Google, but I’m just used to the way that Yahoo! search comes out. That’s what I use most.
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Petyyy
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January 22, 2009, 2:53 pm
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TopI love google too, Tried a few other search engine but I think Google is the best.
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shankar
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January 23, 2009, 6:22 am
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Topofcouse we are searching for different search engine other than google..this is because google is inefficient in the case of long and unrelated queries..thank you..
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Joshua
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January 23, 2009, 2:13 pm
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TopI also love Google, because I find what I am looking for most of the times like 99% of the times. The only other alternatives I have is Live Search and Yahoo Search.
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connie
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January 27, 2009, 11:04 pm
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TopThanks for that list. I like having options besides always google or aol search, and it looks like there are plenty to choose from. Used to be one some years back called A9.com, which I just loved! Definitely will be trying some of these.
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maryg
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January 28, 2009, 6:34 am
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TopI liked when Culi first came out but it doesn\’t seem to be catching on.
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Cassi
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January 28, 2009, 8:32 pm
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TopThanks! This is a great list, very helpful
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mak
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January 31, 2009, 10:14 pm
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TopI have been using Google for as long as i can remember. Had no idea there were so many alternatives available on the internet. Thank you so much for the help.
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ekta
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February 2, 2009, 1:35 am
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Topi would really go for mostly all the alternatives you have mentioned as i find them quite interesting ..the list is really good to know about ..thanks for making our work so easy and helping us this way..good luck and keep up the good work
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Chitra
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February 2, 2009, 2:11 am
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TopWow… I truly did not know that so many search engines even existed. I have been using Google ever since I used the internet and still find it useful. However, it is great to know so many websites have come up. Now, I have more options in my hand!
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sudinem
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February 2, 2009, 7:46 am
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TopI am neutral to google. Neither I\’m die-hard fan of google nor hate google. I use it whenever I want to search something on net. Anyway thanx for sharing this information….
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Vadim
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February 2, 2009, 9:23 am
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TopThank you! This is very useful information for me.
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cholette
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February 2, 2009, 6:02 pm
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TopThis is a great list. I didn’t see swagbucks.com listed here. This is a paid to search engine. You can earn amazon/starbucks gift certificates and more. No spam here. Just check it out for yourself.
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Asoka
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February 2, 2009, 9:00 pm
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TopI too love Google.At times i rely on msn.com and rediff.com.The information about other sites are wonderful and very informative.
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Shea
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February 3, 2009, 12:25 pm
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TopI like http://www.google.com too. But before I found google, I used Ask.com all the time.
But I’m glad I found the glory of google. ha
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Manoj Tripathi
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February 4, 2009, 3:31 am
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TopYou have really taken pains to compile an exhaustive list of all the important search engines. I am truly amazed that there indeed are so many search engines. Although I too normally use Google, I have made a note of some of the search engines that you have mentioned and would love to visit them.
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admin
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February 4, 2009, 2:23 pm
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TopIt’s interesting – there’s a lot of engines out there that that are pretty obscure, and there will only be more as time moves on. Google has just made it clear that they are an Off-Page Factor search engine, and that really what separates them from a lot of the rest of this list.
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karthick
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February 4, 2009, 8:14 pm
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Topgoogle is going bad now a days. many searches are not available on google.
while other search engines improving, google must start enpowering itself to stand in this battle field.
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Patrick
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February 12, 2009, 12:08 am
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TopThat is certainly a lot of search engines. Like you, I can’ imagine anyone not looking google. They have continually given valid and help search results.
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tati
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February 12, 2009, 9:44 am
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TopWOW! i always knew there were many search engines but i had no idea how may, or that there were engine geared toward specific types. thanks for the posting!
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Astra
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February 13, 2009, 4:54 am
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TopWow, you have a great style of writing and posting useful information, i think i’ll have to add you to my reader:D
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admin
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February 24, 2009, 12:31 pm
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TopWell thanks Astra – glad you dig our style
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rochelle308
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February 25, 2009, 5:01 am
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TopWow, that allot of work putting that together. Great job. Didn\’t realize there was so many different types.
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Rekha
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February 26, 2009, 3:58 am
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TopI always used to have this question what if google deactivates my account. But now I know there many alternatives I can look for. Thanks for giving such an elobarate list. Keep the good work going.
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magikspork
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February 26, 2009, 4:17 am
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TopWow! That’s quite the extensive list you have there.
I also prefer Google, but I’ll have to check some of those out!
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Commenter
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February 26, 2009, 11:52 am
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TopThanks, this list must have taken a long time to put together. I really appreciate having alternatives to choose from.
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daijean11
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February 27, 2009, 6:29 am
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Topthat\’s a lot!..LOL..
anyway, i use \’my homepages friends\’ and \’scour\’..both of them pay for every search made..\’my homepages friends\’ uses yahoo search while \’scour\’ uses yahoo, google, and msn search..i think you should also add those two to the list..;)
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Erika
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March 1, 2009, 10:43 am
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TopGoogle is still my tried and true friend, but I will bookmark this list because it breaks down different options for different search needs that may be handy in the future. Thanks for the great article.
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Vladimir Đorđević
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March 2, 2009, 11:39 am
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TopThanks man for the idea! There are other sites than Google, for example Yahoo! Search!
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Amanda R
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March 4, 2009, 8:44 pm
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TopI’ve always been a fan of google because it seems to produce the greatest amount of results. Wikipedia is great, but I sometimes doubt its dependability. Thanks for giving such a long list of alternatives though:)
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bizco17
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April 13, 2009, 9:34 am
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TopI personally only use Google, unless I’m searching for something that is dated. If I am looking for a dated Item I use yahoo, because for some reason I tend to have better success. Google is a monopoly and rightly so. Why do we say “have you googled that”, and not “have you yahooed that”.
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Govindan Namboodiri
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May 18, 2009, 11:57 am
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TopA treasure of information, of course. I have seen here the names of some search engines that were hitherto unknown to me! Keep on posting such useful articles.Thanks!!
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pairbrother
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June 24, 2009, 11:14 am
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TopA very comprehensive list. But could’nt find http://www.wolframalpha.com/ in it. Agreed Google is the best but Wolfram|Alpha is certainly worth a look.
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Max
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July 17, 2009, 2:42 am
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TopI think you need to update thi spost. Wolfram Alpha and Bing are important players. Wolfram Alpha will never have the scale of Google. But it does make an important step away from what is traditionally considered search.
Bing is already the second largest player, beating Yahoo. Can\’t be sneezed at. (I know live translates to bing, but still…)
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peter
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September 5, 2009, 9:46 am
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TopI think Google just knows to much about everyone and everything. After playing with google maps and seeing a picture of my friends father in front of his house cutting his lawn, I thought this is just enough. I decided to start to use a search engine that is not following and recording every move I make. I like thehub.net, it’s new I’ve been using it for a few weeks.
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Angelschein
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September 27, 2009, 2:45 am
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TopI agree with u. I need to imedeatly add it in my RSS
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March 17, 2010, 7:23 am
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November 22, 2011, 4:55 pm
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one of the most simple way which everyone knows it called link building, and link building with anchor text is good. But now there is some thing called link wheels, are they effective?
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