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Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, March 2007
Written by Charles Knight / March 28, 2007 / 66 commentsWell, it's that time again! Time for the monthly update of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines.
Before we get into it, allow me to back up just a bit. First of all, the "Alternative" in the title refers to "alternatives to Google." That is, one criteria for making it onto the list is to exhibit superiority to Google in one particular feature. For example, TheFind.com is better than Google's Froogle, in my opinion. And that brings me to my second point: the ultimate criteria for inclusion is not empirical, it is subjective. I liken myself to a movie critic - here are 100 movies/search engines that I think you should see. If you go to one and are disappointed, that's okay.
The Top 100 List first appeared in Read/WriteWeb in January 2007. A month later, the Top 100 list was updated - at that point 32 search engines were dropped from the List and 32 new ones debuted. In February we also introduced a 'Search Engine of the Month', a new regular feature (no reading ahead!) of the List. In February I chose GoshMe
for this honor. The feedback we received was that categories would be useful, and so this month Categories (I call them "Scattergories" after the old board game of the same name) have been added to the Names and URLs in the attached spreadsheet.
What's New & Category Highlights
This month, there has been 50% less turnover. Only 16 search engines were shown the door. Sad, but absolutely necessary in order to show you 16 of the latest and greatest alternative search engines.
The Top 100 for March ended up with some of these "Scattergories":
- One Audio Search Engine; FindSounds;
- Four Blog Search Engines; such as the new Blogdigger;
- Three Video Search; including PureVideo, which Read/WriteWeb recently reviewed.
