What's So Alternative

About Alternative Search Engines?

[martinibuster]

This is said in the spirit of constructive criticism.

I would be glad to use an alternative search engine IF it gave me an alternative. I don't want another version of Google. And that's the problem, not enough difference.

How can an alternative search engine differentiate itself?

One way is to specialize.
Google is ahead of everyone else in this regard. A broadbased search engine that searched everything can not find everything for everybody. So Google specialized. That's why we currently have THREE Googles: Google, Froogle, and Google News.

So where are the alternatives?

Any ideas?

[pendanticist]

Have a go at these.

http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html has an "alternative" section towards the bottom.

The rest of these are from my stash.

http://www.notess.com/search/ is a guide to engines.

http://www.musicsearcher.com/ is music.

http://www.humorsearch.com/ is humor.

http://healthcare.monster.com/ Monster Health.

http://www.musicsearch.com/ another music.

http://www.gemstate.net/susan/links.htm Psychological and Medicine 4Search Engines

http://www.interment.net/data/search.htm Cemetary records.

http://www.worldwide.edu/ WorldWide Classroom.

http://www.wwwomen.com/ The Premier Search Engine for Women.

http://66.39.95.6/search.htm American Birding Engine.

http://www.aqualink.com/ The largest aquarium engine.

http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/ Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting.

http://chid.aerie.com/simple/simple.html CHID Search - Combined Health Information Database.

http://www.christianlinks.com/ Christian Websites from Christianlinks - The Internet's Premier Christian Directory!

http://www.reeusda.gov/ CSREES - U.S. Department of Agriculture.

http://www.crosssearch.com/ CrossSearch - CrossSearch Online Christian Resource Directory.

http://movies.excite.com/ Excite - Movies

http://skicentral.com/ SkiCentral - Skiing and Snowboarding Index and Search.

http://search.sportsline.com/ Sportsline

http://www.starseeker.com/ Star Seeker

http://mini.net/sax/ The SAX - Shareware Author Index

http://search.ers.usda.gov/ USDA Economic Research Service

http://www.fas.usda.gov/fassearc.html USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

Some may not 'exactly' fit the bill.

Need any more?