The innovation here is just a whimsical layout - like this homepage for GoogleXtra.  Others have made see-everything-that-Google-has-on-one-page sites, namely Soople and Simply Google.

Well, campers, it’s time once again change your homepage, toolbars, and ingrained habits!
Our friends at Search Engine Land are hosting “Google Free” Mondays so that we all can be aware of not just the Alternative Search Engines, but also what the Major ones (the Big 5) are up to.
Anyway, today it’s Yahoo!’s turn, and I [...]

Today we launch Part I of our 3 Part Series

Part I: What is a Search Engine? by Nitin Karandikar (Mon)
Part II: What is Not a Search Engine? by Kaila Colbin (Tues)
Part III: What is an Alternative Search Engine? by me (Wed)IntroductionThe Internet - and especially the Web - has revolutionized the world we live in. [...]

In the Search world, there is a standard definition of Federated Search.*
“Federated Search is an emerging feature of automated, web-based information retrieval systems. It is also often referred to as a “web-portal”, as opposed to simply a web-based search engine.
“Federated searching consists of (1) transforming a query and broadcasting it to a group of disparate [...]

Welcome to AltSearchEngine’s “Around the World in 80 Weeks”
 
Every Saturday on AltSearchEngines, we travel the globe in search of International Search Engines. In case we have already been somewhere that you are interested in, here’s a quick review of our weekly jaunts:

Russia
India
Iceland
Yemen
Czech Republic
“Parlez-vous Frances?”
We’re not interested in machine-translation here, but if you’re a [...]