A List of Alternative Search Engines

While Google, Yahoo!, and Bing serve as the most used search engines in the world, there are many others search engine alternatives that you probably never even heard of.

For many, including myself, using Google has become a habit. Whenever I have a question or want to look up something, I just head on over there and key in my phrase. But sometimes, its good to look elsewhere for your search results you know?

Today I spent a good portion of my day scouring the Internet looking for general purpose search engines and am making the list available to you. They are sorted in descending order according to Alexa worldwide ranking as of the date of this article.

It should be noted that Google and Bing are the only two major search engines left in existence. Yahoo! now uses Microsoft Bing for search results.

KerryOnWorld's List of Alternative Search Engine's

• ChaCha

  Alexa ranking: 2,256
  A question and answer website. Ask a question, get a human answer. Very useful if you have a mobile phone.

• DogPile

  Alexa ranking: 4,086
  An Infospace search engine that has been around a long time. Driven by Google, Yahoo and Bing search results.

• Blekko

  Alexa ranking: 4,754
  A spam free, high quality, unbiased search engine. Blekko spiders high quality websites and ignores the rest and determines authority through human intervention. In addition, users tag content to create higher relevancy.

• DuckDuckGo

  Alexa ranking: 5,436
  A simple search engine that presents results in a clean, less clutter manner. There is very little advertisement surrounding the search results which actually is refreshing. Search results were very good in terms of relevance too.

• IceRocket

  Alexa ranking: 7,039
  A real time monitoring social media search engine that takes content from blogs, Facebook, and Twitter and makes the search results available to you.

• Mahalo

  Alexa ranking: 7,152
  A neat little website that changed its look over the years. Currently uses a timeline like what Facebook switched over to on the home page. It is a different type of search engine in that is human driven. Mahalo editors review websites and creates custom search results pages.

• Gigablast

  Alexa ranking: 25,200
  A no frills search engine that provides services for cNet, Mamma, Clusty and others.

• Yippy

  Alexa ranking: 26,251
  A search engine that doesn't track your searches. Caters to families as bad content is not spidered or stored in their search results.

• Zuula

  Alexa ranking: 102,971
  Impressive lightening fast search results pulled and displayed from nine sources - Google, Bing, Yahoo, Gigablast, Exalead, Alexa, Entireweb, Mahalo, and Mojeek.

• Redz

  Alexa ranking: 159,750
  A search engine that shows its results in a panoramic content slider.

• Hakia

  Alexa ranking: 169,737
  A semantic search engine that could probably use a good designer. The results are good but are presented in an ugly manner. If they cleaned the presentation up, it would probably be more appealing.

• Worio

  Alexa ranking: 239,208
  Powered by Google and focuses on dialogue from your social networking sites.

• Spezify

  Alexa ranking: 505,872
  A very interesting search site that takes its content from various social media websites including Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr and presents it in a multipage gallery full of rich text and images.

• Search Cube

  Alexa ranking: 812,985
  A website that uses Google search results to generate a three dimensional visual cube that can be spun and clicked into.

If you know of any other alternative search engines, feel free to leave a comment here.

About Kerry Kobashi

Kerry is the founder of KerryOnWorld. He lives in Silicon Valley and has worked as an engineer and project manager. He owns Kobashi Computing a consulting company.