Another multi/meta search engine to consider. This one is Surchur. It's best for news information, and from non standard meta search engine resources. This one uses digg, delicious, technorati, newsvine, Google news, Yahoo news, images from flickr and photobucket, video from YouTube, Metacafe, revver, and products from eBay and Amazon.
Thanks to Charles for this one.
Ez2find which was one of my favourite meta search engines looks as though it has gone. I tried to get in a few days ago with no luck, and when I do get to the site now it's just a holding page. This is a real shame, because it was a great little meta search engine and I'm sorry to see that it's crashed and burned. Anyone know anything more about its demise?
GrabAll is a search engine that lets you compare results from different engines next to each other. You run a search and then have a choice of viewing 2 of Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN, DMOZ, AltaVista, Gigablast, Looksmart for web searching. It's also possible to do image searching, using Google, Yahoo, Webshots, Pbase, AOL or Ditto. Oddly enough when I ran a search here Google was acting under Strict SafeSearch, while Yahoo was running with SafeSearch off.
Other search options include Map (US only), audio, price, reference, software, people, weather and local.
Thanks to Karen for this one - I found it in one of her slideshare presentations, 'Update on Search Tools'.
Intelways is a multi search engine of the type that provides you with access to different search engines and allows you to click on an engine and see the results appear in the window below. It provides access to Google (Web, images, news, maps, blogs) Yahoo, Live, Ask, YouTube, Flickr, and half a dozen others. It works quickly and is very smooth. However, I'm afraid that I'm going to still stick with Trovando because that does the same job, but with over 30 different engines.
TripleMe. allows you to run a search and get results from three of the big 4 on the screen at the same time in a column format. Does the job, but it's a very cramped display (4 columns, including Google Ads) and quite difficult to read. I also wasn't impressed that before I could view my first results I was supposed to email a friend and tell them about it. That's going down like a lead balloon on Facebook, so I hope it doesn't catch on elsewhere.
Other side by side engines are Googleguy.de (Google/Yahoo) 2 columns, each scrolls independently. Twingine (Yahoo/Google), Newsiness (Google/Yahoo news results).
Link: Keotag - tag search multiple engines. This is a meta search engine with a slight difference in that it's looking mainly at the social networking/bookmarking area. Type in your search and view the icons from various resources. Click on one and get a bunch of results. This is a lovely way to quickly search through (takes deep breath)
Technorati
Blinklist
Del.icio.us
Twitter
Google blog search
Icerocket
Blogdigger
Tailrank
Livesearch
Bluedot
Newsvine
Blogpulse
Blogdimention
Bloglines
digg
reddit
Yahoo
YouTube
SearchBoth.co.uk - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time!. It does rather more than that actually... this engine gives you the opportunity to search and compare results via a split screen with Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Metacrawler, Altavista and Websearch. As an aside, they also have a little voting button for your favourite engine, and on 2,159 votes the results are 74% Google, 16% Yahoo, 5% Ask and 4% MSN.
The US version at http://us.searchboth.net/ also allows you to compare 10 travel sites and YellowPages with SuperPages.
Of course, the main problem with engines like this is that the screen does get very cramped very quickly, particularly when you're dealing with the three paned screen of something like Ask. However, it's another way of trying out a meta search engine.
Zuula Search has been noticed again. I first discovered this almost a year ago to the day, and I wasn't particularly impressed. However, it's always worth taking another look, and Zuula has come on in leaps and bounds. With Web search it goes to 8 of the major engines (excluding Ask, interestingly enough), and you can quickly reposition the tabs. There are also tabs for Image, Video, News, Blogs and Jobs searches, all using good quality engines. The display is clear and easy to read. A nice feature is that if you page through some results, move to another engine, page through some more results and then return to your first choice again, you're still where you were, rather than being kicked back to the beginning again. (Please tell me that made sense!)There's also a nice search history function, though this does seem to be cookie/IP related, so you might want to delete it or close it down, depending on the searches that you've run!
All in all, it's a nice search engine, well put together and coming along very nicely.
Zuula Search via kwout
Earthfrisk.org is one of the new breed of search engines that allow their user communities to comment on and discuss web sites. It pulls results from a variety of different engines - GYMA and Clusty and some social media sites - digg, del.icio.us and so on. It also has an image search, videos, maps and directory element to it as well. It doesn't seem to tell you how it ranks its results though, or where exactly it's pulled them from. Anyone can vote for a result, but you need to be logged in to add comments. As usual with this type of site the weakness is that not much appears to be commented on - and then there's the question of spam comments, trusting the user community (not that I have any reason to doubt it!) and so on.
I'm only mentioning Search Salad for comprehensiveness. It's less than impressive - from the title - Web Search Engine, Online Search Engine, Best Search Engine, Top Search Engine, Free Search Engine. through to the results. It's as basic as it gets, dragging in results from Google et al but displaying them one after another, rather than in a single list. To be honest, I couldn't even recommend taking a look at it.
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