Andrew Lamb's List: Search Engines

Bing is a new search engine by Microsoft. Microsoft claims, "We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster."

Bingle is a mash-up of Bing and Google. This is very handy search engine to use if you can't decide which of the two "power houses" to use.

"Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search."

Collecta is a new (beta) search engine which gives you up to date information based on monitoring "LIVE" RSS feeds of various sites.

EyePlorer is a great new site (still in beta) that can be summed up as a visual search engine for WikiPedia. At first glance it looks like a giant color wheel. All you have to do is type in your search in the "search bar" and watch what happens (ignore the german, the site runs in English).

Is a new site that is dedicated to making searching online safe. Here is a blurb from their site, “Our Search Engine Methodology Although our search engine methodology is confidential, we can tell you that we filter our results in a way that protects your family. We also sort the results in a way that we hope allows you to effectively find the most applicable websites you are
searching for.”

Goofram is a new mash-up that combines Google and Wolfram Alpha to create one unique search engine. After giving it a try I must say that it is rather useful. Of course Wolfram will take a bit longer to search then google and a lot times you won't get results, but that is because of Wolgram Alpha's unique "calculation" search engine.

Google, google, google, google, google

Google Squared is the latest project under "Google Labs". This is a new way to search designed to give you results in a spreadsheet type layout.

Hakia is a new (beta) search engine that focuses on semantics. What this means is it has the ability to search more effectively then other search engines by incorporating these three things: results come from credible Web sites recommended by librarians, represent the most recent information available, and remain absolutely relevant to the query.

Kid Rex is a search engine built by kids for kids powered by Google's Safe Search Technology. Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your child’s search results. Google's filter uses advanced technology to check keywords, phrases, and URLs. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate material.

Lavva is a new (beta) search engine that is influenced by their users to share/collaborate on information. It can almost be described as Wikipedia meets Google. Here is a quote in their own words, "Lavva hopes to turn search into an interactive platform where every user can contribute to the richness of the experience and have the ability to influence content."

Leap Fish is a new (beta) search engine among some of the best newbies out there. LF is a search engine very similar to Dog Pile. It uses state of the art technologies to "enhance" your browsing experience.... or as they put it, " We've created the first multidimensional information aggregator and search portal in the world."

Scoopler is a new (beta) real time search engine. "Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day."

Search Cloud is another new (beta) search engine, which uses a "tag cloud" interface to calculate your preferences. The way this works is quite simple, type in your query in the search bar, then either hit return (via a pre-determined search engine-which you change), or click on any one of the engines in the "cloud".

Search Motive is an interesting new (beta) search engine designed to give you results from "people" not "web crawlers". Here is a quote from their site, "Get relevant, recent, and real-time search results from the most popular social networking and usersubmitted content sites including Twitter, Digg, Hulu, Flickr, YouTube, and many more!"

Specra is a new search engine which uses the "big three" (Google, Yahoo, MSN) to generate it's results. After gathering the results Specra then ranks them via an algorithm. A nice feature is the ability to "weigh" a specific search engine to curve your results.

Sperse is very similar to your typical browsing experience...meaning it acts the way most search engines do. There are some nice features by searching by: web, images, video, news, etc. Also, a very handy feature is that the search results come back w/ a preview icon so you can literally see a "snap shot" of the site before browsing to it.

Spezify acts like a browser but the results you get are a mixture of images/text/multi-media etc.

Worio is a new search engine and is interesting in the way that it handles searches by working "hand-n-hand" w/ keywords to give you the best results.