Allth.at was one of the 100 top alternative search engines in Charles Knight's February list. It's a search agent that allows you to define a search topic, then refine it Continue reading »

Last Friday we posted about weird search engines. We got some good comments and found some new weird search engines to add to our list. Note that we mean weird Continue reading »

In Read/WriteWeb's interview with Matt Cutts of Google today, on the topic of next-generation search, the very last question I asked him was how Google is going about indexing video. Continue reading »

The mashups of our Top Alternative Search Engines list continue! Charles Knight spotted a great post by the Search The Web 2.0 blog, which took the top 100 and attempted Continue reading »

The mashups of our Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list continue! The Name Inspector, a fun and interesting blog run by a PhD in Linguistics, has done a linguistic analysis Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO and edited by Richard MacManus. The original version of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines List appeared here on Read/WriteWeb on January 29, 2007. Continue reading »

Microsoft has acquired Medstory, a vertical search engine for health information. This is an interesting development in a few ways - but in terms of Web tech trends, because it's Continue reading »

We've just noticed that Google has introduced a bit of Ajax into its main property Search, by way of integrating Maps on some searches. This feature has been around since Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Last week it was reported that Browster, one of the first companies to deliver previews of web pages, is done. Browster Continue reading »