The purpose of this article is to introduce you a few not so well known Search engines.
Reason why you may consider using one of them is that if you are searching on Google, you get results only from Google index databases, but Search engines listed bellow are looking into databases of more sources, so you get for example results from Yahoo.com and Google.com together.
It is very useful thing providing better coverage of web and it is called metasearch.
Here is a list of some popular Search engines that are using metasearch technology.
Clusty.com
Clusty is a Search engine with nice and simple user interface.
Clusty queries several top search engine, combines the results and generate ordered list on comparative ranking.
You can sort results by clusters, sources and sites. Clusters help you to see search results sorted by topics so you can find unexpected relations between them. And here you are, that is where the name Clusty came from.
Another nice feature of Clusty is that you can open sites from search results in "frame like"preview. This allows you to quickly scan through content and decide if that is what you are looking for.
Putting together databases of: Ask.com | Gigablast.com | Live.com | Yahoo.com | Open Directory
Dogpile.com
Dogpile.com is a search engine that combines results of six Search engines.
Dogpile portal combine Search and Rescue in one. The Rescue I am talking about is money rising program for animal rescue.
If you would like to search web and help animal rescue at once, Dogpile.com may be your choice.
Putting together databases of: Google.com | Yahoo.com | Live.com | Ask.com | Kosmix.com |
Fandago.com
Sputtr.com
Even that Sputtr.com is not exactly metasearch search engine decide to put it here. Reason is that it may be interesting for you, anyway.
Metasearch, like I explained before, works in the way that you search for specific keyword and you get results from more search engines.
What Sputtr does is that it allows you to choose where you want to search – what search engine you would like to use.
So, you for example you can try to search for videos on YouTube and after that you try on Google Videos.
To understand and see if you like it check Sputtr.com site.
MetaCrawler.com
It is a good search engine that use indexes of mayor search engines. It allows you to set up preferences so you can create filter for your results.
Putting together databases of: Google.com | Yahoo.com | Live.com | Ask.com | MSN.com | About.com
Mamma.com
Mamma.com is another search engine with metasearch technology.
Give it a try and maybe you will like it.
Putting together databases of:
Live.com | Yahoo.com | Ask.com
SurfWax.com
You can click on "snap" button next to your search results to get sort of useful information about site that contain "keyword" you searched for. If you are web developer then this may be good source of information for you.
Another offered feature is that you can get full text of your results. This means you get text from all pages from result (of course in bunch of ten sites).
Putting together databases of: MSN.com | CNN.com | AllTheWeb.com | Yahoo.com
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