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January 30, 2007

Top 100 Alternative Search Engines

Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google." Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.

But it's not just the sheer number of them that makes them worthy of attention; each one of these search engines has that standard "About Us" link at the bottom of the homepage. I call it the "why we're better than Google" page. And after reading dozens and dozens of these pages, I have come to the conclusion that, taken as a whole, they are right!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php

Thanks to Charles for pointing a lot of people at Simply Google.

January 30, 2007 in Google | Permalink

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The March 2007 Update to The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines has just been realeased - and with a brand new Search Engine of the Month!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines_mar07.php

Posted by: Charles Knight | 29 Mar 2007 00:20:17

Greetings!

Please check out this quick, fun poll at:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_really_alt_search_engines.php

Thanks, Charles Knight

Posted by: Charles Knight | 25 Mar 2007 13:17:26

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