Improve your search result by using these google alternatives.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-10-10 03:58:48
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Most of us rely on google for all of our search results but guess what there are powerful alternatives which challenge google in specific areas google is a great general search but what if you have more specific results in mind such as video music people business or podcasts. I have categorised some of my favourites below to help you search smarter. Please let me know if i have missed out any which you feel should be added to the list. Video Search:www blinkx com - a powerful video search tool boasting 14 million hours of searchable TV content www truveo com - Time based video search - very coolwww. Altavista com/video - Searched many types of online video files such as quicktime. MPEG. AVI's etcwww uLinkx com - Video search results returned by category from youTube. MySpace. Revver and many more... Music & Podcast Search:www seeqpod com - Get playable results in audio format returned in super quick time www espew com - A great MP3 search enginehttp://hypem com - Search for song or artists www everyZing com - A very clever search engine that looks for search terms inside audio podcasts and video clips using speech to text technology. Image Search:www picsearch co uk - Returns thumbnails of all images found with details of where they are hosted www. Flickr com - Can you believe they have over 1 billion images. The daddy of online images. News Search :www wikio com - Pulls the latest headlines from a range of media sources and blogswww topix net - Search for local or global news with postcode and town name search. People Search :www pipl com - A very comprehensive search engine that looks for people on google but also looks inside documents and databases www spock com - Spock searches all the main social networking sites and wikipedia for people www wink com - Be careful typing this one into your browser at work ;-). Claims to search over 200 million people across all the main social networks http://yoname com - Searches 26 social websites for last names usernames and email address www wikiyou com - Wikipedia for people so the person need to be added for data to be searched. User Generated Search : www aftervote com - Vote for your favourites search results across google yahoo and microsoft Live www sproose com - You can improve results similar to aftervote by voting for your favourite and adding comments www mahalo com - There are 40 people behind the scenes collating the best results for your search query or get paid to participate by adding your own search results www chacha com - bringing the personal touch back into search. They provide normal search results but if you click the search by guide button you can have a personal search agent help you find what your looking for. Blog Search :www icerocket com - Ice rocket finds blog posts by keyword and results are ordered by date posted www technorati com - the grand master of blog searching. By the far the best i have used - need i say more http://uk ask com - Search blogs rss feeds and news stories and results can be sorted by date relevence and popularity www blogdimension com/en - Search blogs and microblogs such as twitter forums news feeds podcasts videos and images. Get Answers to those annoying questions :www answers com - This site provides answers on over 4 million topics http://answers yahoo com - Ask your question here and all get answers from other users. People who provide answers get points and can be rated by the person who asked the question. I find this very useful. New Ways to search. Lots of companies are developing innovative new ways to help you find what you are looking for online. Below are some examples that might be of use next time you are doing a search www snap com delivers thumbnail previews of all search results from a link or an image. Or try www quintura com for a more visual search site in a cloud format. You can also try www clusty com to cluster your results by category and finally www searchmash com for multisource results. I hope these resources help you search a little smarter next time you are looking for that crucial information online. ThanksCraig
Hi Craig!Your article is definitely a key article. Users are becoming aware that alternative search engines will open them a new dimension of the Web search. Thanks to have cited Blogdimension com which appears to be an exemplary of this new breed of search tools. All the best!
Hi,Thanks for your comment on the blog - im glad you have you have the same views. I'm currently trying to encourage friends and colleagues to use alternative searches when researching web content. Google is good but there are better vertical engines out there. Thanks
I totally agree with you Craig. I also published an article on our corporate blog very complementary to yours by the way http://blog blogdimension com/2007/11/19/alternative-search-engines-and-the-subjective-web/en/Have a nice day!
Craig is passionate about usability digital marketing web2.0 social media and digital innovation with business. Craig has a BSc in Multimedia Technology and is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Craig featured on the cover of Revolution Marketing magazine in the January 2008 Edition and was voted one of the UK's rising stars in the digital marketing sector http://tinyurl com/6nob8o[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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