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11 Amazing Search Engines To Try Out

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Deepika in Internet & Web Design, SEO

To everyone of us search engine means only Google comes to mind. We can’t live without Google. We use Google search engine almost everyday. Google Search provides more than 22 special features such as synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake, data, movie show times, airports, home listings, sports scores, etc. There are special features for numbers, prices, temperatures, money/unit conversions calculations, package tracking, patents and area codes. Google is used by people all over the world. It is one of the most popular search engines to date.
It is the fastest and the best search engine as of now. But there are some innovative search engines. You can also try those search engines and enjoy using them.
Some of those search engines are really good in their way. There may be times where you can’t find the things you want which can be frustrating. You may try out the other alternatives that are available. As the saying goes, there’s always no harm to try.
Some of the search engines are:

Kosmix:

Kosmix is a useful search engine and guide to the web. There are two different ways to navigate the Web: Search and Browse. Search lets you find specific information. Kosmix organizes all the information on the Web so that you get a 360 degree view of the topics.

Home Page of Kosmix

It searches your query across different sites like Flickr, Youtube , CNN, Wikipedia, Google Image Search, and different categories like audio, video, news, blogs, pictures and displays all the results nicely organized in different boxes on a single page. It scored better with less-time sensitive issues and search terms. For example, it provided lots of information on health related topics.

VideoSurf:

VideoSurf is an excellent video search engine which displays videos from popular video sharing sites like youtube and metacafe on one page. It lets you browse them visually and provides many ways to refine the results and watch the videos. Another cool thing about this site is the face recognition technology which it uses to point out the person the video is all about really nice. VideoSurf is video search engine that has created a better way for people to search, discover, and watch online videos.

Using computer vision videoSurf has taught computers to see inside videos to let users find and watch videos that they really want to see. Whether you’re looking to watch funny videos or scary videos, movie clips or TV full episodes, the hottest new music videos or breaking news clips, VideoSurf’s video search engine is the place to go to find the videos you’ll love. Spend less time searching and more time being entertained!

Download Any Stuff:

Download Any Stuff uses Google in the background to pull out free mp3 songs, ebooks, software, torrents, games almost anything which can be downloaded for free and is listed in Google. It is a search engine designed to make it easy for users to search and download all kinds of free stuff on the net. Powered by Google, it is designed to provide quality results for downloads on various topics including softwares, Music, eBooks, Games etc.

Download Any Stuff SERP

They have provided various ‘Refinement Labels’ on the search page, which help in further refining the results according to categories .You can expect to receive high quality results on various searches. You can also narrow down your search results by clicking on different categories it lists on the search page.

Docjax:

Docjax is a comprehensive document search engine which helps you to search documents in doc, pdf, xls and ppt format and uses Google and Yahoo in the background to show the results. You can also preview the document before you decide to download it.

Docjax Home Page

DocJax.com is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free. You can find and download a tons of document and e-books

Technorati

Technorati is by far the best alternative to Google. The ‘blog search’ allows you to search the hottest blog items, including a list of ‘most-linked-to’ blogs, a top searches list, as well as movies, music, games and videos that most bloggers link to.

Technocrati- Best Blog Search engine

It is user-friendly as you can sort results according to timeliness (based on the newest content) or blogs with more inbound links. It is found as the first blog search engine.

StumbleUpon:

StumbleUpon lets you rate pages and sites that you visit with the thumbs-up/thumbs-down icons in your toolbar. Once it learns your preferences, it becomes better at directing you to the topics you like. You can also add friends to your list. Their preferences will help to further refine your search results.
This website is great for finding content that you may not be able to find elsewhere.

My favourite StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. StumbleUpon offers nearly 500 topics which users may choose to indicate their interests and preferences so each Stumble produces only the most relevant content.

Pipl:

Pipl is the best people search engine on the web. If you are searching for someone on the internet then this is the site that could help you the most.

People search Engine

It searches deep into the web to unearth relevant information which mentions the name of that person. Once you try it, I’m sure you’d agree that it is really impressive.

>Chacha:

At Chacha, you can chat with a real-life professional by submitting your query, and he will return you with results that are customised to your needs and specifications. The service is free and you can have a whole lot of fun.

Chacha home page

ChaCha launched its mobile answers text service. A user can submit queries through their mobile and they get the replies as text or voice service.

>Search.io:

Search Many in One

Search.io is a tabbed search interface and can display almost every kind of search engine available in different tabs on the same page. Hence this is another tool which could prove useful if you’d like to widen your search beyond Google and take a look at what other search engines have to offer on the same query.

>Rollyo:

Rollyo stands for Roll Your Own Search Engine. It allows you do category or general searches to get results from the Web or blogs. You may also create your own search engine if you intend to search only specific sites. Rollyo is the fast and easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust.

Rollit Search Engine

It puts the power of search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines – with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and it creates a custom search engine for you. You can include up to 25 different sites in a Searchroll. Searchrolls with 5-15 sites seem to be the most effective ones.

>Dooblet:

Dooblet helps you find alternatives for just about anything. And it’s not bad in doing that. I typed iPhone in the search box and the top two results were iPod touch and blackberry. Both are an alternative to iPhone. Dooblet is a search-engine to find the alternatives to a broad range of subjects.

Find alternatives - Dooblet

You have something you are not happy with? Feed its name to Dooblet and see what the search-engine can propose you as an alternative. It doesn’t really matter whether you need the alternatives for software, cars, medical treatments, trademarks, movies, artists or even philosophy terms. Dooblet is expected to find some alternative for you.

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