Attached to this article is the August version of The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines in Excel and HTML formats (if I did it right).
All in all, it was a fairly straightforward month; a few new names are there, and therefore a few also dropped off. Having said that, there are three things that I would like to cover briefly.
1) The Top 100 list this month should be seen as the “attachment” to my article and the 3 part series that we just concluded this morning on “What is a Search Engine?” (Nitin Karandikar) The other two parts covered “What is Not a Search Engine?” (Kaila Colbin)and “What is an Alternative Search Engine?” (Me) It would be best if you tried to apply these three articles to The List so that you can wrestle with these issues with us. You can leave a comment after any of the articles, or after this one.
2) The format of The List. Out of our database of 1,000 alternative search engines, I have selected these 100 as the “Best of the Best.” Each month I select one to be the Search Engine of the Month, and to date the winners have been: GoshMe, KoolTorch, AfterVote, Quintura, KartOO and dialog.us.
Since 100 search engines are too many to review, 10 are marked “hm” for honorable mention; perhaps you’ll have time to look at those this month. Past lists have had their own ten honorable mentions. Come December, one of the 10 Search Engines of the Month will be named Search Engine of the Year - 2007. ChaCha was the Search Engine of the Year - 2006.
Every month at least 10 slots are reserved for International search engines; the country of origin is indicated right after the name of the search engine.
3) I’d like to spend the rest of my time introducing this month’s Search Engine of the Month: Omgili! And yes, it really is an acronym for “Oh my god i love it.” Cute!
Omgili represents everything that I was trying to emphasize about what makes a good Alternative Search Engine in my article this morning.
a) It does something that the major search engines don’t - it searches conversations; over 100,000 boards, discussion groups, debates, opinions, forums and much more. To put it simply; you use Omgili to find out what people are saying about your topic!
b) It’s innovative and new; it was just established back in December and received seed financing this past April. Since then it has continued to innovate so quickly that I had to check in with Ran Geva this morning to get the latest news - the Searchamabob.
c) And, given Nitin’s and Kaila’s articles, it is a full and complete search engine with its own crawler, but Omgili does not compete with traditional search engines that retrieve articles and web pages. Like most “Alts,” it adds another facet to the Diamond. It does this one unique function, and it does it very, very well.
In fact, now that AltSearchEngines has “Gone Global,” I should point out that Omgili is a multilingual search engine; you can perform a search in any language.
But, that’s not all…
Omgili Buzz Graphs allow you to compare 2-5 terms and see what people are talking about - now.
Or, if you prefer, you can see it as a bar graph:
There are easy instructions if you would like to add Omgili’s buzz graphs to your web site.
Congratulations, Omgili, and welcome to the Search Engine of the Month club!
Click here for Excel version
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50matches.com |
www.50matches.com |
Social Powered Search |
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Accoona |
www.accoona.com |
A. I. Search |
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AfterVote (SEM) |
www.aftervote.com |
Social Search |
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Agent 55 |
www.agent55.com |
Meta Search |
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Allth.at |
www.allth.at |
Continuous Search |
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Answers.com <hm> |
www.answers.com |
Facts Search |
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Audiobaba <hm> |
www.audiobaba.com |
Music Recommendation |
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Blabline |
www.blabline.com |
Podcast Search |
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blinkx |
www.blinkx.com |
Video Search |
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Blogdigger |
www.blogdigger.com |
Blog Search |
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BlogDimension (fr) |
www.blogdimension.com |
International |
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Bookmach |
www.bookmach.com |
Bookmark Search |
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ChaCha <<SEY>> |
www.chacha.com |
Guided Search |
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ClipBlast! |
www.clipblast.com |
Video Search |
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Clusty mobile |
http://m.clusty.com |
Clusty Mobile |
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Cognitionsearch |
www.cognitionsearch.com |
Semantic Search |
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Collarity |
www.collarity.com |
Social Search |
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Congoo |
www.congoo.com |
Premium Content Search |
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Dabble |
http://dabble.com |
Video Search |
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Decipho |
www.decipho.com |
Filtered Search |
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Deligio |
www.deligio.com |
Software Search |
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Dialogus (SEM) |
http://dialogus.ru |
International |
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EveryZing <hm> |
www.everyzing.com |
multimedia search |
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Exalead (fr) |
www.exalead.com |
International |
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Factbites |
www.factbites.com |
Facts Search |
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Faroo (de) |
www.faroo.com |
International |
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FeedMiner |
www.feedminer.com |
RSS Feed Search |
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Feedster |
www.feedster.com |
RSS Feed Search |
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FilesTube |
www.filestube.com |
File Sharing |
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FindSounds |
www.findsounds.com |
Sound Search |
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Fisssh! |
www.fisssh.com |
Filtered Search |
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FyberSearch |
www.fybersearch.com |
Multi-featured Search |
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GameSkoot (fr) |
www.gameskoot.com |
Games Search |
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GenieKnows |
www.genieknows.com |
Games Search |
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Gigablast |
www.gigablast.com |
Blog Search |
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GoPubMed |
www.gopubmed.com |
Health Search |
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GoshMe (SEM) |
www.goshme.com |
Meta Meta Search |
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Grokker |
www.grokker.com |
Meta Search |
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Hakia |
www.hakia.com |
Meaning Based Search |
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Healthline |
www.healthline.com |
Health Search |
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Helia |
www.healia.com/healia/ |
Health Search |
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iBoogie |
www.iboogie.com |
Clustered Search |
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Icerocket |
www.icerocket.com |
Blog Search |
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indeed |
www.indeed.com |
Job Search |
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Intelways |
www.intelways.com |
Meta Search |
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ixquick |
www.ixquick.com |
Meta Search |
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KartOO (SEM) (fr) |
www.kartoo.com |
Clustering Search |
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Knuru |
www.knuru.com |
Business Search |
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KoolTorch (SEM) |
www.kooltorch.com |
Visualization |
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Kosmix |
www.kosmix.com |
“Smart Search” |
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Krugle |
www.krugle.com |
Code Search |
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Lexxe (au) |
www.lexxe.com |
Natural Language Search |
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Lijit |
www.lijit.com |
People Search |
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Like |
www.like.com |
Image Search |
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LivePlasma |
www.liveplasma.com |
Music Recommendation |
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Mahalo |
www.mahalo.com |
Human-powered Search |
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Megaglobe |
www.megaglobe.com |
International Searches |
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Mojeek |
www.mojeek.com |
Custom Search Engines (CSE) |
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Molu <hm> |
www.themolu.com |
International |
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MP3Realm |
http://mp3realm.org |
MP3 Search |
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nnseek |
www.nnseek.com |
News Group Search |
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Nutshell |
http://www.gonutshell.com/ |
Meta Search |
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Omgili (SEM) |
www.omgili.com |
Social Search |
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Pagebull |
www.pagebull.com |
Visual Results |
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PeekYou <hm> |
www.peekyou.com |
People Search |
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Picsearch (se) |
www.picsearch.com |
International |
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Pipl |
http://pipl.com |
People Search |
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Pixsy <hm> |
www.pixsy.com |
Photo Search |
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Pluggd <hm> |
www.pluggd.com |
Podcast Search |
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Purevideo |
www.purevideo.com |
Video Search |
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Quintura (SEM) (ru) |
www.quintura.com |
Discovery Search |
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Quintura kids (ru) |
http://kids.quintura.com |
kids search engine |
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Revolutionhealth <hm> |
www.revolutionhealth.com |
Health Search |
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RSS Micro <hm> |
www.rssmicro.com |
RSS Feeds |
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Searchbots (nz) |
www.searchbots.net |
Continuous Search |
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Searchles |
www.searchles.com |
Social Search |
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Tynto! |
www.tynto.com |
Search the Long Tail |
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Seeqpod |
www.seeqpod.com |
Music Search |
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Serph |
www.serph.com |
“Track buzz in real time” |
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Sidekiq |
www.sidekiq.com |
“Search anything quick” |
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SkreemR |
www.skreemr.com |
Audio Search |
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Sphere |
www.sphere.com |
Blog Posts Search |
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Sproose |
www.sproose.com |
Social Search |
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Srchr |
www.srchr.com |
Meta Search |
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Sugarcode the Web! |
www.sugarcodes.com |
Command Line |
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Surfwax |
www.surfwax.com |
Meaning Based Search |
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Swamii |
www.swamii.com |
Continuous Search |
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TheFind.com |
www.thefind.com |
Shopping Search |
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Trexy |
www.trexy.com |
“Search Trails” |
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Turboscout |
www.turboscout.com |
Meta Search |
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TWERQ <hm> |
www.twerq.com |
Tabbed Results |
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url.com |
www.url.com |
Social Search |
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WASALive (fr) |
http://en.wasalive.com |
RSS Search |
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Wazap! |
www.wazap.com |
Games Search |
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Whonu? |
www.whonu.com |
Meta Search |
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WiseNut |
www.wisenut.com |
Clustered Search |
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Wize |
http://wize.com |
Product Search |
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Yoople! |
www.yoople.net |
Collaborative Search |
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Youlicit |
www.youlicit.com |
Social Search |
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Zuula |
www.zuula.com |
Tabbed Search |
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