I have been updating my collections of search engines - adding in new ones that I've previously blogged about and removing ones that no longer exist. It's of course not a complete listing - some I simply have ignored as I really don't rate them, others I just don't know about! However, the majority of them are ones that I think are worth looking at in different subject areas. There's more to search than Google. If you have time, please take a look, and consider trying out some new ones. You can access them all via my 'Which Search Engine When' page and pull down menus, but here's an overview.
Key search engines - Free text, Index, Multi, Visual, Categorised, Blended. (41)
Site based engines - Comparisons, Re-ranking, Site information, Similar (30)
News search engines - News, Trending (33)
Types of data - Thumbnails, Overviews, Factual, Hidden, Fileformats, Local (41)
Types of user - Children, Trusted sources, Academic (48)
Multimedia - Image, Sound, Video (63)
People based - People search, Blogs, Forum, Social, Moderated, Bookmarks (82)
Miscellaneous - Spelling, words, really odd (38)
Alternatively, or as well, I have a general collection of 170+ web search engines that is a bit of a miscellany, and most of them are available in the other lists, but not all. If you find any that I've missed, or think I should delete, change, edit or otherwise fiddle with, PLEASE let me know. Also, and this isn't something I ask very often, please do feel free to retweet, blog, or otherwise reference the lists - I don't get paid for any of this and the reward that I get is seeing that other people use and appreciate the work that I put into them. Thanks!
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