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Editor's Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.
In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen -- a lot. Google has been compared to a luxury liner that turns around very, very slowly, whereas the startups are speedboats that can turn (or innovate) on a dime. I guarantee that if you try any of these top 10 alternative search engines of 2008, you won't come away saying, "Hey, that was just like Google."
Visual search engine SearchMe just added music search to its repertoire of search options. That, by itself, wouldn't be very interesting, but thanks to integrating this new search feature with Imeem's ability to play back an unlimited number of full songs and SearchMe's 'Stacks' functionality, you can now use SearchMe to easily create custom mixtapes.
SearchMe, which combines a search engine with a highly visual, CoverFlow-like interface, has seen rapid growth over the last few months and this new feature will surely help the company to attract even more users.
The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar.
With more information being published on the internet and different filters for interpreting this information being created, here's a look at a our picks of unique search engines that are making headlines and changing the way we search.
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