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AltSearchEngines.com

http://www.altsearchengines.com

A sign of the times More than 1000 alternative and niche

search engines Helpful for identifying which search

engine to use for various Web 2.0 questions

Lists and describes a range of alternative search engine types

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1. AltSearchEngines.com Motto: “The most wonderful search

engines you’ve never seen.” The site updates monthly with new

alternative search engines and changes to existing ones

Archives since May 2007 Gives you an opportunity to look at

available search engines and techniques for their use

2. Technorati

http://technorati.com/

Currently tracks 108.7 million blogs Over 250 million pieces of tagged social

media

3. Google's Experimental Search

http://www.google.com/experimental

Add view:timeline or view:info to search query

Must use US version of Google

See results in a timeline with dates highlighted with images featured(!) highlighted on a map

4. SearchMash.com

http://www.searchmash.com/

Unbranded Google site Results sorted by web page, images,

blogs, videos, Wikipedia Infinite scroll Executes "search-within-the-site"

5. Google date-limiting

Use Advanced Search screen

Pull down menu: last 24 hours, last week, last month, etc.

6. Simply Google

http://www.simply-google.com/

Simply Google - all of Google's hidden features in one webpage!

Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs

7. Yahoo! Mindset

http://mindset.research.yahoo.com

Are you researching or shopping?

8. Yahoo's Y!Q feature

http://yq.search.yahoo.com/

Contextual search engine Finds "more like this paragraph“ Initial search Suggests alternate phrases

9. Gigablast

http://gigablast.com/

Limit to multiple sites Gigabits clustering Very cool complex search and

ranking tools (see Help file for syntax)

10. Factbites

http://www.factbites.com/

Search results deliver small fact-bites Max 30 results Good for finding in-depth sites

quickly

11. Intelways

http://intelways.com/

Easy comparison of search results NOT a meta-search engine Well-organised finding tool Useful if you don't know where to

start

12. NationMaster

http://www.nationmaster.com Source for national stats A massive central data source and a

handy way to graphically compare nations

Cool tool for presenting graphical info

Data from WHO, World Bank, CIA World Factbook, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, OECD, etc.

13. Pagebull

http://pagebull.com/

Metasearch tool Entirely visual

14. Carrot2

http://project.carrot2.org/

An Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine

Automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories

Limits the search results by default to the top 100 results from any of the search engines

15. Quintura

http://www.quintura.com/

On-the-fly clustering of results Based on Yahoo’s search engine Tabs for results in video,images and

Amazon Mousing over a term re-executes the

results

16. AskX

http://www.ask.com/?ax=5

New interface for Ask.com Good clustering Highlights Wikipedia Images, news items, blogs,

etc.highlighted

17. Live.com

http://search.live.com

I'd prefer this… Add prefer:word to query Ranks these search results higher

18. TextRunner

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/textrunner/

"Information mining" Looks for assertions sorts the results of a query

according to probability

19. Snap

http://www.snap.com/

Easy to navigate Visual search results Can interact with site within Snap Based on Gigablast

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20. FuzzFind Web Search

http://www.fuzzfind.com/

A meta search tool that combines Google, Yahoo

Results are amalgamated and deduplicated into a single list

Shows where each result has been found in each search tool

21. Exalead

http://www.exalead.com/search

OPT feature first-word OPT second-word first-word is mandatory, and rank

ones that also contain second-word higher

Thank you for listening

Shlomit

shlomitp@tauex.tau.ac.il