Spock co-founder Jay Bhatti was in Portfolio magazine for this article:

Blaise Zerega still hasn’t found what he’s looking for. Yahoo’s announcement to offer BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service– what happened to the Y?), is a better late than never attempt to do something different to compete with Google. Fair enough. But what’s particularly interesting […]

EU Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx presented the first European Privacy Seal to alternative search engine Ixquick today. Ixquick is now the first search engine to be formally approved by the EU in this regard.
The European Privacy Seal guarantees that IT products and services comply with the demanding EU laws and regulations on privacy and […]

Blabline provides easy access to recent Web pages and for searching YouTube, videos, podcasts, torrents and Wikipedia. Blabline aspires to maintain and deliver the leading service for finding recent Web pages. Try it!

Manufacturers’ News, Inc. (MNI) announced today that it has acquired IndustryNet and will be merging it with its existing industrial search engine, mniguide.com, to create one of the nation’s most comprehensive guides for locating manufacturers and suppliers.
MNI, established 1912, compiles information about U.S. manufacturing establishments and other industrial businesses, and its search engine includes nearly […]

Content Management Matters ™
By John Conroy

Conroy looks at 75 alternative search engines in 14 categories, naming a “Top Dog” in each category.  I encourage you to follow the link above, all 75  search engines on his list are worth checking out.  But here are just the Top Dogs:

Visual Search
Top Dog:
Quintura

Human Search
Top Dog:
Mahalo

Semantic and Natural Language […]