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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A new one called www.winzy.com where you can win prizes while searching. I just did a review of it on my weblog.
Posted by: Ali | March 9, 2007 5:44 PM
see a review of few other ones http://webware.com/8301-1_109-9692032-2.html
Posted by: Anjei | March 9, 2007 11:47 PM
Thanks Ali and Anjei! From Anjei's link I do like Ujiko (www.ujiko.com) Definitely one to check out this weekend!
Posted by: Charles Knight | March 10, 2007 5:01 AM
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.....
Posted by: Adrian keys | March 10, 2007 6:30 AM
Should have went with "YahGoogSoft" (Yahoo, Google, Microsoft)
Posted by: Robert Dewey | March 10, 2007 7:11 AM
1) Don't forget GoYams (www.goyams.com) Go + YA + ms = GoYAms
2) Check out this off-beat search engine http://adverlicio.us
Posted by: Charles Knight | March 10, 2007 8:45 AM
I especially like how the 'about me' blurb for adverlicio.us appears as a pop-up after a few seconds!
Posted by: Richard MacManus | March 10, 2007 1:41 PM
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.
Posted by: Tom O'Leary | March 10, 2007 3:41 PM
Another weird one is http://www.tallstreet.com/ its a search engine and you trade the results like a stock market.
Posted by: Jeremy | March 10, 2007 6:04 PM
Here's another strange one: http://goodluckfinder.com
Posted by: Charles Knight | March 13, 2007 11:31 AM