Comments on: 10 Innovative & Interesting Search Engines

By: Joelchrist

Joelchrist — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:36:53 +0000

Fabulous search engine list, that you have mentioned. i dint hear about this before. Thank you.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:37:54 +0000

@Raju, Some of the UX concepts are really good though I expect search engines to be a lot faster in the coming days. Thanks for the post link.

@Sushil, @Madhur, thanks

@Erez, quiji looks interesting as well. Its usability could be improved. By default, I probably expect web search.

@Lax, yep, search me’s way of flipping through screenshots look amazing.

@SK, ChaCha was never my first preference, but they have an interesting concept so I put it in the list here

@Anish, I liked DogPile as well

@Tushar, not sure if some of them can be used regularly as the strength of the indexed pages is not that great in some cases.

@Nihar, Some of them kill you in terms of bandwidth while most others are okay.

@Arun, a couple of them wrote to me mails in the past to review their search engines… I just kept adding the names to the list and to make it 10 I actually searched and found a few

@Ramesh, true – it’s Google all the way though I was one of the last to start using Google I used alltheweb until about three years back before switching to google. They use to give best matches for my queries while Google used to give a lot of pages but many of them obsolete. This was the case earlier but I now depend big time on Google. On the flip side, depending on one SE can be bad at times

@Rajiv, definitely Google rules the globe! You are right about bing, I see that they don’t have even half of what Google has indexed.

@Lee, they are just for your usage if it helps – not for you blog to rank high there in If you go about doing SEO for all of them you get nowhere.

@Sandeep, there are many more of them. There are certain sites that list countrywise search engines. There are 1000s of them.

@Kurt, Google is what most of us use as well

@Pras, I will try out SnappyFingers in detail. Thanks for the info

@teratips, a few were informed by their own creators and a few I searched and found out

Thank you all for your comments!

By: teratips

teratips — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:18:31 +0000

thanks, for the great search engine post, how you find them?teratips´s last blog post... Why we Use the Office 2010?

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:16:10 +0000

Ajith, Nice compilation. I din't knew about many of the of the search engines listed over here. Thanks for the useful info.I have recently come across one new & innovative search engine called SnappyFingers. It's basically a question and answer search engine. Though it is still in beta, it worked well for me few times compared to traditional search engines.Prasanna´s last blog post... Get instant access to 2780 Live TV Channels directly from your Firefox browser

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:49:45 +0000

From the above I guess I used only Cuil Once… got to try the rest. Else I normally uses only Google

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By: Curious Little Person

Curious Little Person — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:34:30 +0000

Awesome List! I never knew so many search engines existed until i saw this post of yoursKeep coming up with such great stuff AjithCheers SandeepCurious Little Person´s last blog post... Make Money Online Series Part 3 - Get Paid to Blog

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:51:42 +0000

It’s really good to target all these search engines, but I believe that all of them have different algorithm in determining ranking. You rank well for one, but you might not be ranking well for another. Also, I think current no search engine can beats Google search engine, even the current Bing search engine from Microsoft.

Anyway, it’s good to know and try.

Regards,
Lee

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By: moserw

moserw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:44:05 +0000

I've personally seen and used a few of them, but never been impressed with anything other than Google. The reasons being not the interface and the GUI but the search results themselves. In terms of that Google is just unbeatable and in a search engine that's what people are primarily looking for, accurate and correct results. The results Google comes up with, the other search engines do not even show up. I tried Yahoo and others for a while but found them omitting sites that Google showed. Even MS's new Bing is way too behind.Coming to Google improving their interface, well why fix something that's not broken and also Google makes most money from the ads on its search engine so I guess they will not be messing with that anytime soon.moserw´s last blog post... Banana Bournvita Milkshake Recipe!

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:16:24 +0000

Honestly, who needs anything except Google? Some fields has multiple players at the top, because the top player is not as strong as their competitors.When it comes to search engines, there is simply no competition. GOOGLE all the way. !Ramesh Natarajan´s last blog post... Google Chrome OS – Beginning of End of Microsoft?

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:21:21 +0000

Where did you find all of these man, I haven’t even heard the names of most of them. Am living a cave, now its confirmed.

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By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:10:56 +0000

Ajith, great list, I also admit with others that i don't know some of the search engines above.The search engines with visual looks of results might eat lot of bandwidth. Am i right?Will check each of them in leisure.Nihar´s last blog post... Get Free Maxim Magazine Subscription 2009 For 1 Year for Canada and USA

By: IndianCashMaker

IndianCashMaker — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:53:39 +0000

awesome post....I never heard of any one of the above until before you wrote here..THANKS...now i will be regularly using themIndianCashMaker´s last blog post... How does Blogging Make Money?

By: Anish K.S

Anish K.S — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:07:11 +0000

Cool list, i like dogpileAnish K.S´s last blog post... Kangana Ranaut & Janardhan Baba With Salman Khan on 10 Ka Dum

By: binaryday

binaryday — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:54:01 +0000

Really interesting post. Did not know much about many of these search engines. Will try them out tomorrow. BTW I did not have great experience with chacha when I tried them. Might be they have improved.binaryday´s last blog post... 4 types of pagerank tools

By: TechZoomIn

TechZoomIn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:54:45 +0000

Search me really awesome..It's totally different innovative idea..Thanks for sharing these Ajith.TechZoomIn´s last blog post... How to Generate Quality Articles for Your Blog

By: Erez

Erez — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:59:26 +0000

What about Qwiji? the flip through search search? try it ! http://www.qwiji.com/

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:13:48 +0000

Wow that's a nice list. I have tried only SearchME. Will try other tooMadhur Kapoor´s last blog post... Get Quick Access to your Favourite Folders with Direct Folders

By: Sushil

Sushil — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:29:19 +0000

Good list here – I have to admit didnt know of most of these till I saw this list as well .

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:16:51 +0000

Awesome!! plain awesome… Honestly, I didn’t know more than half of the services listed out here. I would need an hour atleast to explore each of them in detail. Thanks for the list
Btw, I had written a post on “person-search engines” long time back, thought it will be useful to share here

http://techpp.com/2008/10/31/looking-for-you-on-the-net/