A List Master speaks out!
This is an exciting post. I’ve wanted to tell you about the List Masters since we launched AltSearchEngines. Please check out this article that a List Master just posted.
Most people are familiar with the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list that I publish here monthly. But not everybody knows that the Top 100 alts are culled from the Master List of the Top 1,000 (one thousand) alternative search engines!
And very few people know that the Master List is scrupulously maintained by five volunteer List Masters. I am one, Laura is one, and there are three others who can introduce themselves in the comments to this post - if they want to.
The list is maintained, as Laura notes, on a CentralDesktop spreadsheet in cyberspace. Each List Master has a password authorizing him or her to add a new alt, edit a URL or category, or delete a defunct one. The list stays at 1,000 because the goal is not to have every alt search engine in the universe, but to have a database of the 1,000 best from which we write all of our posts, etc.
So when you see the Top 100 list, now you know about the 900 you don’t see. Every alt has a 1 in 10 chance of making the Top 100 - a very dynamic and competitive process, especially since every day we find new ones and delete old ones!
If you have a question for the List Masters, please ask it here. I’ll email them now and ask them to check in. Meanwhile, please thank them for making this whole blog possible!
