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The Top 5 Google Alternatives and Why You Should Use Them

January 13th, 2010 Yousuf Rafi
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Google has been the leading search engine in Pakistan as well as rest of the world for as long as I can remember. Launched as a small beta start up in 1996 at the domain google.stanford.edu using inexpensive hardware, you wouldn’t think then that it would ever become the success it is today with so few useful Google alternatives available.

In fact, in 1998 when it first went live on the official Google.com domain, the beta was publically labeled by its creators as a “might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype”.

While the mechanics of it have improved dramatically since then, it still relies on the number of backlinks to theorise how important a webpage is. A lot of us have grown sick of what could be called an outdated way to display results and maybe even resent their market dominance.


If you want to shed that mentality of instantly “Googling it” then you’ve got to take the leap, here are five excellent Google alternatives – each one has their own specific goals and a different way of doing things; and no, they’re not Bing, Yahoo! or Wolfram Alpha.

FactBites

FactBite

Normally, when you search for something on Google, or any of the big search engines for that matter you’re returned results based on the popularity of the page. That’s because search engines link relevance with popularity. FactBites however draws on the web’s vast amount of encyclopedias and information websites such as Wikipedia and more specialized ones to provide you with factual information.

This search engine is great for things such as school work and research for articles which is the basic need of people in Pakistan and all over the world. To put it bluntly, it cuts off all the excess fat that you don’t need and gives you the best of the best.

Quintura

Quintura

This search engine I liked a lot because it redefines how search results should be displayed. Instead of just showing you a list descending in order of relevance, they have this accompanied by a tag cloud to the left of the screen. This allows you to quickly display alternative results by just hovering your mouse over them. This tag cloud can also be shared or embedded using the appropriate buttons.

Now here i have searched send new year gifts to Pakistan and its showing all those tags which are related to my searched term.

Quinturq uses the same method to display results for web, images and videos.

Clusty Search

Clusty Search

Ever been doing research for a topic or just searching for stuff in general and get pretty annoyed at how disorganised the results can be? A more organized Google alternative is in order. Often, when I’m looking for sources for an article I have to perform multiple refined searches to get the kind of results Clusty Search could get in one – and organize them into their respective categories too.

Say you’re looking for articles and material relating to Pakistan. Instead of doing five or six different searches, just search for Pakistan and Clusty will gather them into their respective groups while still displaying traditional style results as you can see in the screenshot above.

Results can be clustered into different ways depending on what you’re searching for. Examples include sources, type of material (blogs, reviews, news etc..) and size, quality and so on for images and videos.

Dog Pile

Dog Pile

Surprisingly, over 85% of everyday searches return different results when you use different search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask. DogPile performs multiple searches for your term and then aggregates those results into one quality set of results.

Their mission is to have a simple yet effective search engine to give universal results instead of what one engine thinks may be best suited for you.

They have all the standard search functions too for filtering your results and search categories such as Image, video, Web etc, as well as the Yellow and White Pages!

Cuil

Cuil

The homepage of Cuil is minimalistic, mostly black with your run-of-the-mill search box in the middle. You can also select what language you want your results in. They index websites in English, French, Turkish, Italian, Polish and much more.

The way they display search results is most intriguing. Firstly, you have your traditional results as per usual. In the right sidebar, depending on what you have searched you could have a map, historical timeline, streaming results, category tags and other specific features relating to your search.


So there you go. Five great Google alternative search engines enabling you to break free from Google and other traditional search engines in style. Do you have any suggestions for other alternative search engines? What do you think of the ones profiled?

Courtesy by http://www.makeuseof.com
Image curtesy by http://thenextweb.com

  1. January 13th, 2010 at 13:40 | #1

    Great article…

  2. January 13th, 2010 at 23:14 | #2

    @Shahzad
    thanks bro

  3. medigineers
    January 14th, 2010 at 04:29 | #3

    excellent.. I will be using these

  4. June 20th, 2011 at 00:28 | #4

    That was interesting -- thanks for sharing

  5. June 20th, 2011 at 04:38 | #5

    @Malik Mirza

    your welcome Malik… yes sometimes you just need a bit of change so here is the change.

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