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4 Great Alternatives To Google |
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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
Google is the generally accepted king of the search engines, followed by Yahoo and MSN. Other smaller engines exist, which aren't quite as useful, but some new Ajax-y alternatives (excluding Scroogle) exist. This article attempts to showcase some of the cooler and more useful engines.
Scroogle isn't an ajax based engine, but I feel it deserves an honorable mention. Scroogle is a scraper that displays Google results to you, as a service to keep you anonymous. There is even an https feature for added security.
Searchme is a nice ajax engine which shows screenshots of the results, and they rotate as you drag a slider bar. It offers images, video, music, and shopping results with the shuffled results. It is really good looking, and works very well.
Gigablast is a "powerful new search engine that does real time indexing." I think that means that it indexes the sites that refer visitors to it. That said, it currently has 4,822,055,863 pages indexed. Another one to try if you're sick of Google.
RedZee, the coolest of these engines has a really great logo. It's animated and flashy. Outside of that, it displays the results in a carousel, with snapshots of the pages to be viewed, and it has an easy link back to the results that is displayed at the top of the pages discretely in the corner. The result pages look somewhat like a ferris wheel, and in general, this search, like Searchme is very cool functionally.
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