Don't ask me why, but this is one of the most crowded categories;-). Search inspires many students & academics to come up with something new, although often just for play. My bet is that a few vertical and a few clustered search concepts stand a very tiny chance to work themselves out of Google's shadow. Folksonomy-based search seems interesting too, but it's victim to a chicken or egg-dilemma: to make it really work they first need massive usage...



More than 60 additions in this update, in italic.



1000tags - Tag cloud based search

A9** - Clustered search

Academiclive - Search academic articles

Accoona - A.I. Enhanced search

Adaction - Search me

Aduna~ - Visualize search results

Aftervote - Meta search inc several rankings

Aftervote - Meta search inc several rankings

Ajaxwhois - Results while you type

Alamy - Search stock images

Albumart - Search for CD and DVD covers

Alpinaut - Search route maps

Ambedo - Bookmark, tag & search

Anoox - Majority vote optimized search

Aolvideo - Search video

Askalexia - Ajax interface to Alexia.com

Audioclipping* - Search AV (German)

Aytozon - Ebay + Amazon metasearch

Bashr - Wikipedia, Flickr & Delicious mash-up

Become - Collective shopping search

Bessed - Search & blog

Bibster - Search, share & manage bibliographic metadata

Big - Big search results

Biggerboat - Search entertainment

Blogbar - Searches your blog and the web

Blogbuzzmachine - Blog search

Blogcatalog - Blog directory

Blogpulse - Search blogs

Blogrovr - Get links to context relevant blog articles while you're browsing

Bluedot (formerly: Blue) - Find & share

Boardreader - Forum & bulletin board search engine

Boardtracker - Search forums

Brandgossip*~ - Find what people say about your brand

Browster - Search & browse instantly

Bustaname* - Domain name checker

Byoms - Personalized IM search agents on your cell

Chacha* - Get real time results with help of live guides

Cityfeeds - Find what's happening in a city now

Cliproller - Search video & get recommendations

Cloudee - Aggregates news per term

Clusty - Cluster results in folders

Collaborativerank - Search & rank

Collarity - Customize your search & find people with similar search interests

Colrpickr - Search Flickr photos based on their color

Compete - Get info on sites' traffic, offers and trustworthiness

Congoo - Search and preview premium content for free

Cooliris - Search within search (client)

Copernic - Search app

Cranky - Search & rate in this age relevant senior search engine

Daypop - Search news

Decipho - Clustered search

Deepquerymanager - Search, share & manage info from the deep web

Digforit - Meta search

Digitalmediasearch - Search media

Digitalpodcast - Search podcasts

Ditto - Search images

Domainsbot - Domain search & suggestions

Doubletrust - Google + Yahoo mash-up

Downthisvideo - Search & download videos

Dumbfind - Search words + tags

Egosurf - Search yourself, get ranking

Ekoss - Semantic search for engineers

Everythingweb20search - Web 2.0 search

Exalead** - Unified search technology

Extate - Property search engine (UK & SA)

Eyesearch - Search results presented in mini thumbs

Ez2find - Meta search

Factbites - Search results in sensible sentences

Famfamfam - Search icons

Faroo - Become part of a search infrastructure (client)

Fedsifter - Search feeds

Feedshot - Optimize findability of your blog

Feedster - Search for feeds

Feedzie - Finds feeds & casts

Filangy - Current search

Findsounds - Search for sounds

Fintag - Finds LSE stocks

Flickr-storm - Fuzzy search engine for Flickr photos

Flowser - Visual Amazon search

Fooooo - Search +20M videos

Franchisegator - Ajaxified franchise search & match

Fundooweb - Meta search

Futef - Clustered search on Wikipedia

Fybersearch - Web and feed search

Gadabe* - RSS metasearch (relaunched as Tagjag)

Gahooyoogle - Google + Yahoo mash-up

Geourl - Location 2 URL directory

Gettalink - Search & get visual links

Gnoos - Blog search

Gnosh - Meta search

Gnowsis - Semantic desktop

Gokita* - Clustered meta search (no advertising)

Goodsearch - 50% of ad revenues for a charity designated by you

Googdesk - Meta search

Google* - Search & adwords

Google411 - Voice rec-based search

Googleblogsearch - Search blogs

Googlecustomesearch - Create your own vertical search with Google

Googleimages - Search images

Googlemobile - Search, email & rss reader

Googlerelatedlinks - Related links service for your web page

Googletoolbar - Social search

Graball - Meta search

Gravee - Searches sites & blogs; fair rev share on ads

Gridwell - Search; results with icons

Hakia - Meaningful results

Healia - Health search engine

Healthline - Contextual search for health information

Highfivez - Blogosphere search engine

Hotdaddy* - Search engine aggregator

Huckuback - Meta search

Iamsearched - Are you googled-notification service

Ibegin - Local search

Icerocket - Search blogs & web

Iconbuffet - Search icons

Iconfinder - Icon search engine

Instantdomainsearch - Ajax domain search + suggestions

Ipselon - Meta search

I-spy - Community based meta search

Jobpile - Job search engine

Jobsearcheasy - Job search engine, win prizes

Jookster - Search, rank & share

Juststepsaway - Deep filtered vertical search for vacation rentals

Jux2 - Meta search

Kartoo** - Clustered, mapped search

Kcoolonline - Search & download videos

Keepvid - Search & download videos

Keotag - Keyword and tag search

Kinja - Search blogs

Kissyoutube - Search & download videos

Knover - Discover who's connected to what & whom

Kosmix - Vertical search

Kratia - Search, vote & rank results

Lexxe - Meaningful search

Lijit* - Social contextual search

Like - Find article you want and do a likeness search

Linkedwords - Search with context

Linkput - Results with sure input

Lirama~ - Upload, explore & share song lyrics

Liszen - Search blog articles for librarians

Livedoorsearchbox - Search in IE window border

Liveplasma* - Search & find other things to your taste

Livesearch* - Refine your search while you type

Loki* - Search & navigate web & real life

Longtimelost* - Find back lost friends thru Google

Lumrix - Semantic search engine

Majestic12* - Distributed search engine

Makidi - Search for people (?)

Mamma - Meta search

Matchmypet - Find a date for your pet

Mb3dengine - Animated Digg-cloud

Medgle* - Medical search

Meevee - Search, upload, share, review & vote tv content

Metatube - Search +100 video sharing sites

Mnemo - Refine your search terms

Mobilcast - Search podcasts

Monitor110** - One-stop semantic financial research suite

Mooter - Clustered search

Musestorm*** - Metasearch in Flash (several interfaces)

Musicmap - Search & find other things to your taste

Mybigriver - Find while you type; Amazon mash-up

Newroo - Memetracker (Stealth)

Nextaris - Social search

Nnseek - Forum search engine

Nnseek - Forum search engine

Oihoi - First specify category, then search

Omgili - Search discussion forums

Oodle - Find local classifieds

Oozm - Search refined by people

Opinmind - Connect opinions to people (bloggers)

OPMLsearch - Dedicated OPML search

Opsdo - Meta search

Otavo - Collaborative web search

Outfoxed - Social search

Pagebull - Visual search

Pico - Search multimedia

Picsearch - Meta search on pics

Picturesandbox - Photo & video search

Pipl - Search for people

Pixelperfect - Search stock images

Pixsy - Ajax-based image search

Podcastdirectory - Search podcasts

Podcastnet - Search podcasts

Podcastsearchservice - Find podcasts

Podfeet - Find casts

Podnova - Find podcasts

Podscope - Find podcasts thru text search

Podscope - Voice rec-based audio and video search engine

Praseus - Page rank based search

Prefound - Search & share what you've found

Previewseek*** - Byebye Google? (Coming back soon)

Pssdir - Create & publish your own search engine or web directory

Pubsub - Search + profiled alerts

Pulverati - Create & share RSS feed search

Puzzr - Vertical search

Qelly - Meta search engine - Search

Qksearch - Meta search for verticals (web, jobs, etc.)

Qoogle - Video search

Q-phrase - Search solutions (clients)

Qtsaver - Micro content search; Google & Yahoo mash-ups

Qtsearch - Search for content in Yahoo & Google

Quantcast - Site stats

Qube - Search engine aggregator (client)

Quece - Conversational search

Quintura - Search strange site names

Qwika - Search wikis

Readon* - Have your video captioned for search purposes

Releton - Google + Yahoo + maps & routes

Reply - Get info on value of homes & cars in USA

Resultr - Meta search with agents

Retrevo - Meta product search

Retrievr* - Search images by sketching

Riya* - Face recognition based photo search

Rollyo* - Create search agents

Rootly - Refine your news search

Rssmicro - Feed search

Scoopgo~ - Create & maintain news search agents

Scroogle - Google without ads & other evil

Searchcrystals - Visualise your search

Searchfeedr - RSS feed search

Searchforvideo - Search video

Searchmapr - Cluster your search results in treemap

Searchmash - Ajaxified search playground for Google

Searchvideo - Search video

Seekum - User ranked search results

Semantical - Semantic search engine software - Search

Shopwiki - Search 120,000 stores

Sidekiq* - Hyper meta search

Similicious - Search for similar websites

Simplygoogle - Everything Google on 1 page

Skuer - CSS search engine

Snaket - Clustered search

Snap - Ajax search, shows found pages

Snunk - Search & vote

Socialgrapes - Find & keep track any member of any social network

Sphere - Search the blogosphere

Sproose - Personalize search results & share them

Squurl - Rapid domain search - Search

SRC - Clustered search

SRC - Clustered search with RSS alerts

Srobbin - Search Google Video on your cell

Stalkerati - Meta search for people

Stockpert - Search stock images

Stockphotofinder - Search stock images

Streakr* - Stumble upon, rate & share content from social media

Suckingfish - Save, collaborate on & publish search results

Sullr* - Reversed mobile phone number search

Surfwax - Multisource search

Swamii - Create cross media search agents

Swicki - Search with user input

Swoogle - Semantic web search engine

Sxc - Search stock images

Tagbulb - Meta tag search

Tagfetch - Folksonomy meta tag search

Tagground - Search for URLs by tag or v.v.

Tagjag - Meta search (formerly Gada.be)

Tagnautica - Search Flickr

Talkdigger - Search & discuss results from blogs & web

Tallstreet - Trade search results like stock market

Technorati* - Find what people are saying

Technoratikitchen - Saerch for microformats

Tellme - Search businesses thru voice, get rich info or text back

Thedailyplate - Search food & find healthiest options

Thefind - Shopping search

Tiltomo - Search for similar photos

Toptensources - Startpage

Tubesurf - Search video

Tunefind - Submit & find film & tv music

Twerq* - Remember search results in tabs

Ujiko** - Visual your search, manipulate results, manage your reputation (by the wizards from Kartoo); the more you use it, the more cool features you get

Universe** - Presents search results in stellar clouds

Urlfan - Real time blog reference search

Vast - Car search

V-enable - Mobile speech search

Videodl - Search & download videos

Videodownloader - Search & download videos

Videoronk - Meta video search

Videotag - Play video tagging game & enrich their search database

Viewscore - Product search & comparison engine

Vivisimo - Clustered search

Wampad - Experiments in speed search

Watson - Add contextual search to all documents

Watvindenwijover~ - Find & vote for information

Waypath - Search blogs

Webaroo - Search the wen offline - Search

Webmunism - Search media & knowledge in self-organizing categories

Who-isit - Whois, ping, check link popularity

Whonu - Discover/search content (more) intuitively

Widgetbox - Directory for web widgets

Wikimindmap* - Search wiki content with mindmap interface

Wink - Folksonomied search

Winzy - Search & win prizes

Xcavator - Search & sort images

Yahoovideosearch - Search video

Yellowbook - Yellow pages aggregator

Yoono - Search, exchange & share information

Yoople - Search & collaborate on improving search results

Youtubedownloader - Download & save Youtube videos

Youtubedownloads - Search & download videos

Youtubex - Search & download videos

Youtubia - Search & download videos

Yubnub* - Search & share search commands

Zeedex - Search with suggestions

Zigtag - Search, save & share results

Zoomf - Search with map mash-up

Zuggest - Meta search engine

Zuula - Meta search (web, images, news, blogs, jobs)



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