This document summarizes 10 alternative search engines: Dogpile, Goodsearch, Scirus, Blinkx, Ixquick, TouchGraph, Exalead, Internet Archive, Wolfram Alpha, and Musicovery. It provides a brief description of each search engine along with their website URLs.

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10 Top Alternative Search Engines
Based on a similar presentation created by Carrie Levin,
The Sloan Consortium

2. Dogpile: “Go Fetch”
• Dogpile is a meta search engine that “fetches”
results from Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask.com, and
many other popular search engines.
• http://www.dogpile.com/

3. • Every search does some “good” as it results in a
contribution to a charity. A portion of the
advertising revenue is sent to the charity of the
day or a charity of your choice.
• http://www.goodsearch.com/

4. • Maintained by Elsevier, this search portal is one of the
most comprehensive search engines for the sciences.
Apart from searching all bibliographic information of
Science Direct (the journal hosting system of Elsevier
Scientific), it also searches so-called preferred web
resources, mostly scientific repositories or freely
available bibliographies .
• The main value of Scirus is its full text indexing of the
preferred web resources.
• http://www.scirus.com/

5. • blinkx has built a reputation as the “Remote Control for
the Video Web.” With an index of over 26 million hours
of searchable video and more than 350 media
partnerships including national broadcasters,
commercial media giants, and private video libraries, it is
a leader in searching online videos.
• blinkx searches videos in several ways, including
speech-to-text that can translate from among many
languages and capture titles such as sports scores.
• http://www.blinkx.com/

6. • Ixquick is a meta search engine that provides
comprehensive results rated by “stars” and
based on a consensus of all the search engines
used.
• https://www.ixquick.com/

7. TouchGraph
• TouchGraph provides a java-enhanced graphical
display of linkages among returns from Google.
• http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

8. • exalead displays results with screen shots of
the pages, a useful display mode that saves
time.
• http://www.exalead.com/search/web/

9. Internet Archive
• The Internet Archive provides permanent
access to texts, audio, moving images, and
software in digital format. It is working to prevent
the Internet and other "born-digital" materials
from disappearing into the past.
• http://archive.org/

10. "Wolfram Alpha is like plugging into a vast electronic
brain. It provides extremely impressive and thorough
answers to a wide range of questions asked in many
different ways, and it computes answers, it doesn't merely
look them up in a big database… In this respect it is vastly
smarter than (and different from) Google.”
Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

11. Musicovery
• Musicovery is a search engine for streamed
online music. You can choose music by genre
and mood.
• Its lab “invites you to test a new revolutionary
way to find intuitively the music you want to play:
„the sensitive mood pad.‟”
• http://musicovery.com/

12. • Hakia is a semantic search technology company.
• Semantic search seeks to improve search
accuracy by understanding searcher intent and the
contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the
searchable dataspace, whether on the web or within
a closed system, to generate more relevant results.
• http://hakia.com/

13. • Quixey is a functional search engine
for apps.
• http://www.quixey.com/