ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard
Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article. (April, 2004)
Amfibi
General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
AOL Search
Offers comprehensive Web results enhanced by Google(TM) plus relevant multimedia results like images, video, shopping.
Ask
Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads. (July 16, 2001)
Creative Commons Search
Powered by Nutch, it searches content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having to pay or ask permission.
Dumbfind
Offers the option to specify a general topic as well as specific keywords for more precise results.
Entireweb
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
FactBites.com
A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The results return complete, informative sentences about the search topic. Related topics are suggested.
Gigablast
A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
Govmine
This search engine by Convera places relevance above popularity in serving up results. It groups results by category, and offers options to search news, blogs, images and US government sites.
Lexxe
Processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions.
Mojeek
Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising. Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal search index.
Mozdex
Uses open source search technologies and an index seeded from the Open Directory.
MSN Search
Microsoft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
NPR : The Search Engine Wars
In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines. (April, 2004)
Objects Search
An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
Scrub The Web
Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
Search 2.0
Blog dedicated to coverage of the next generation of search engines and new technologies from the original players with tips, tricks, and tutorials on how to search more effectively.
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. (April 2, 2002)
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