Comments for Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines

Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines

2007-03-09T22:13:09Z

While the serious talk today is about Freebase, a new next-gen search engine from Danny Hillis, it's the end of the week and so time for a bit of fun. Author of the popular Top Alternative Search Engines list, Charles Knight, flicked me an email this morning with an example of a weird alt search engine that he'd discovered: www.ufocrawler.com/search.

That got us to thinking about what other 'weird' search engines are Out There. Below is a short list that Charles came up with (his knowledge of alt search engines knows no bounds!). But we'd like to throw this open to you, the readers, as a kind of Friday or weekend survey. Please let us know in the comments about the weirdest alt search engines you've come across!

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Comment from Ali on 2007-03-09

2007-03-10T01:44:46Z

A new one called www.winzy.com where you can win prizes while searching. I just did a review of it on my weblog.

Comment from Anjei on 2007-03-09

2007-03-10T07:47:40Z

see a review of few other ones http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692032-2.html

Comment from Charles Knight on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T13:01:09Z

Thanks Ali and Anjei! From Anjei's link I do like Ujiko (www.ujiko.com) Definitely one to check out this weekend!

Comment from Adrian keys on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T14:30:34Z

I ran a couple searches on UFOCrawler and the results were were extremely relevant.

At first I wondered why someone would want to build a search engine with the "big boys" being able to do the job but ran the same searches on Google and they were far less relevant.

Now I see.....

Comment from Robert Dewey on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T15:11:02Z

Should have went with "YahGoogSoft" (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft)

Comment from Charles Knight on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T16:45:07Z

1) Don't forget GoYams (www.goyams.com) Go + YA + ms = GoYAms

2) Check out this off-beat search engine http://adverlicio.us

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T21:41:23Z

I especially like how the 'about me' blurb for adverlicio.us appears as a pop-up after a few seconds!

Comment from Tom O'Leary on 2007-03-10

2007-03-10T23:41:53Z

Why doesn't adverlicio.us place a search box at the top of the page rather than making me click a link in the side menu? They didn't have any results for a search on "GoDaddy" either, which was strange.

Comment from Jeremy on 2007-03-10

2007-03-11T02:04:49Z

Another weird one is http://www.tallstreet.com/ its a search engine and you trade the results like a stock market.

Comment from Charles Knight on 2007-03-13

2007-03-13T18:31:41Z

Here's another strange one: http://goodluckfinder.com