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1. Alt. Search. Engines. com ¡ http: //www. altsearchengines. com l l A sign of the times More than 1000 alternative and niche search engines Helpful for identifying which search engine to use for various Web 2. 0 questions Lists and describes a range of alternative search engine types

1. Alt. Search. Engines. com l l Motto: “The most wonderful search engines you’ve never seen. ” The site updates monthly with new alternative search engines and changes to existing ones Archives since May 2007 Gives you an opportunity to look at available search engines and techniques for their use

2. Technorati ¡ http: //technorati. com/ l l Currently tracks 108. 7 million blogs Over 250 million pieces of tagged social media

3. Google's Experimental Search ¡ http: //www. google. com/experimental l l ¡ Add view: timeline or view: info to search query Must use US version of Google See results l l in a timeline with dates highlighted with images featured(!) highlighted on a map

4. Search. Mash. com ¡ http//: www. searchmash. com/ l l Unbranded Google site Results sorted by web page, images, blogs, videos, Wikipedia Infinite scroll Executes "search-within-the-site"

5. Google date-limiting ¡ Use Advanced Search screen l Pull down menu: last 24 hours, last week, last month, etc.

6. Simply Google ¡ http: //www. simply-google. com/ l Simply Google - all of Google's hidden features in one webpage! l Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs

7. Yahoo! Mindset ¡ http: //mindset. research. yahoo. com l Are you researching or shopping?

8. Yahoo's Y!Q feature ¡ http//: yq. search. yahoo. com/ l l Contextual search engine Finds "more like this paragraph“ Initial search Suggests alternate phrases

9. Gigablast ¡ http: //gigablast. com/ l l l Limit to multiple sites Gigabits clustering Very cool complex search and ranking tools (see Help file for syntax)

10. Factbites ¡ http: //www. factbites. com/ l l l Search results deliver small fact-bites Max 30 results Good for finding in-depth sites quickly

11. Intelways ¡ http//: intelways. com/ l l Easy comparison of search results NOT a meta-search engine Well-organised finding tool Useful if you don't know where to start

12. Nation. Master ¡ http: //www. nationmaster. com l l Source for national stats A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations Cool tool for presenting graphical info Data from WHO, World Bank, CIA World Factbook, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, OECD, etc.

13. Pagebull ¡ http//: pagebull. com/ l l Metasearch tool Entirely visual

14. Carrot 2 ¡ http//: project. carrot 2. org/ l l l An Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine Automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories Limits the search results by default to the top 100 results from any of the search engines

15. Quintura ¡ http//: www. quintura. com/ l l On-the-fly clustering of results Based on Yahoo’s search engine Tabs for results in video, images and Amazon Mousing over a term re-executes the results

16. Ask. X ¡ http//: www. ask. com/? ax=5 l l New interface for Ask. com Good clustering Highlights Wikipedia Images, news items, blogs, etc. highlighted

17. Live. com ¡ http: //search. live. com l l l I'd prefer this… Add prefer: word to query Ranks these search results higher

18. Text. Runner ¡ http//: www. cs. washington. edu/ research/textrunner/ l l l "Information mining" Looks for assertions sorts the results of a query according to probability

19. Snap ¡ http//: www. snap. com/ l l Easy to navigate Visual search results Can interact with site within Snap Based on Gigablast

20. Fuzz. Find Web Search ¡ http: //www. fuzzfind. com/ l l l A meta search tool that combines Google, Yahoo Results are amalgamated and deduplicated into a single list Shows where each result has been found in each search tool

21. Exalead ¡ http: //www. exalead. com/search l l l OPT feature first-word OPT second-word first-word is mandatory, and rank ones that also contain second-word higher

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