Ranknoodle – No need for Witty Title after that!
Whoever is in charge of this alternative search engine is really austere on the information-giving. He has no email and won’t answer the phone, so all we can really know for sure is that it has a rather creative name.
It also has a very well organized information-gathering layout, and whereas most search engines give you a disorganized list of links based on popularity or some such algorithm that can lead you to any form of information, be it pictures, videos, articles, .pdf files, conversations, or anything else the internet can dredge up from the deep dark depths of its cyberspace soul, Ranknoodle has decided to make things a bit more organized.
You start out by searching for a phrase, say, “How to Brew Beer.” (If you can’t think of one, they have a list of the top 100 searches, none of which I recommend using because some of them are really strange even for Howard Stern.) Type that into Google and you’ll get a jumble ordered by keywords, but not filtered for type of content. Trust me. I’ve tried it. Type it into Ranknoodle, however, and you’ll get, in part, this:
If it’s hard to make out exactly what’s happening here, you’re seeing information divided into sections on the screen according to what kind of media it is. There are conversations, web results, pictures, and video all sectioned off from each other so you can decide what kind of information you want. This is the first alt I’ve seen that does this and as such, I believe it is worth mentioning. Check it out for yourself, and rank your noodle. Whatever that means. (I like mine aldenté. That’s Italian for aldente.)
