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10 Offbeat & Alternative Search Engines You Might Not Have Heard Of
August 30, 2011
By Saikat Basu
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alternative search enginesIn a strange way, it was a good moment when I discovered that the world is not only about Google. Well, it has a huge chunk of the search engine pie, but there are some really good alternative search engines that make for occasional pickings. Of course, ‘good’ is a very relative term depending on the information you hit while using them. The good thing though is that if there’s some type of data on the web, you can be sure that there’s a search engine out there trying to get it for you.
These ten alternative search engines are offbeat in two ways – firstly, in the way some of them get to the data, and secondly in the way they display it (at least some of them).
You should keep a few other search engines in your search toolbox. Will you be keeping any of these? Let’s find out.
Blogumbus
alternative search engines
Initially, I thought it was a cool visual search engine. Then, from its name, I clued in that it has to be about searching blogs. I was right on both counts but not completely so, as Blogumbus is actually a search engine that’s been specifically optimized for mobile phones. It connects similar blogs (finds relationships) and allows you to browse those relationships with point-and-click or pinch-and-zoom.
Tall Street
google search alternative
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On this search engine you get to play ‘Google God’ by ranking the search results. Tall Street works on your recommendations and ratings. What’s interesting is that with a log-in, you can ‘trade’ results using fake money. You invest in your favorite websites by choosing keywords. Ratings for these keywords and websites determine how your ‘stock’ rises and falls. Thankfully, to play trader, it doesn’t take real money!
Zanran Numeric Data Search
google search alternative
This one is really a niche search engine that gets graphs, charts, and other forms of ‘semi-structured’ data for you. Zanran’s About page says that conventional search engines are more textual in their search, so this specialized search engine is a good way of mining what they miss or bury deep inside their search results.
Typobuddy
google search alternative
A search engine that relies on you to make a mistake has to be classified under offbeat. Typobuddy tries to give you a leg up in the bidding on eBay (and Craiglist) by searching out misspelled auction items. Misspelled auction items just might escape the eye of a regular search and you can profit from the mistake. (See Directory mention)
LivoRobot
search engine alternative google
There’s nothing much unusual about this search engine if you keep your eyes on the search results derived from Google Custom Search. What’s unusual though is the sexy girl who’s dancing and gesticulating away near the search box. You can turn her off with the little button on the page.
Ask Cerebra
search engine alternative google
Just a simple comic blog search engine for the guy who loves web comics. It uses a Google Custom Search backend to scout the web for online comic books.
Addict-o-Mattic
search engine alternative google
This neat search tool acts more like a search aggregator as it assembles search results from a variety of other search engines and news feeds. You can instantly create a ‘page’ with the latest information on any topic.
Radio-Locator
Radio-Locator is a niche search engine that helps to locate radio stations that can be tuned into at a specific geographic location in the United States. It takes into account each radio station’s transmitter power, antenna height, frequency, and antenna pattern, and also the topography and geology of the surrounding area.
Oamos
Oamos packages itself as an entertaining search engine. It combines news, images, synonyms, music and videos from sources in answer to your keywords. The search engine is tagged as a ‘meta-inspiration’ engine. You can use the slider to choose between varying degrees of objective results and entertaining ones. Check out the interactive shows you can generate with music, videos, and text. -
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komox 37Oamos questions search engines for uptodate news, images, synonyms, music and videos in relation to your topics. The content are streamed audiovisually more or less objective or entertaining, with or without sound, with or without links.
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Abigaël PESSESinterfaces psychadéliques qui dépassent la liste
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Marc-Alexandre Gagnon29 Pseudo-Random Mashups:
http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser
http://www.oamos.com/
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Bismarck Public School District Technology DepartmentThis site is a search engine dedicated to the visual learner. It is definitely unlike anything else around.
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Emilie BouvrandOamos est un moteur de recherche particulier. Il n'est pas à utiliser pour sa performance de recherche mais plutôt pour la façon de présenter l'information. A voir par curiosité.
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Elizabeth ClarkOamos questions search engines for uptodate news, images, synonyms, music and videos in relation to your topics. The content are streamed audiovisually more or less objective or entertaining, with or without sound, with or without links.
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Laurent LégerMoteur de recherche dont l'affichage des résultats est pour le moins étonnant !
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philippe couveA la télévision, breaking news désigne une coupure de programme par un flash info urgent, irruption du réel dans le flux du divertissement cathodique. L’artiste suisse Marc Lee détourne le vocable avec le satirique Breaking the news, un dispositif ludique
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Philippe Scheimannvery innovative display of all kinds of content - could be useful for displaying content from inforpreneurs with much to say
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danilo vetterBei Oamos haben wir eine einziges Ziel: Wir möchten Dich Inhalte entdecken lassen die Du magst und die Dich inspirieren.
Zu Deinen Themen befragt Oamos Suchmaschinen nach aktuellen News, Bildern, Synonymen, Musik und Filmdateien. Die Daten werden audioviweb visualization searchengines search remix news searchengine suchmaschine blogdas video webservice tools
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Gianto WidiantoLet me inspire you to a topic you choose ► 'Andy+warhol' for example
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neknarf FrankenOamos is a metasearch engine with audio-visual display interfaces.
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Josephine Doradoonline mashing up based on a metasearch engine with audio-visual display interfaces.
mashup remix remixculture multimedia NewMedia for:plasticpool
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