ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard
Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.
Amfibi
General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
Ask
Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads.
Creative Commons Search
Powered by Nutch, it searches content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having to pay or ask permission.
Dumbfind
Offers the option to specify a general topic as well as specific keywords for more precise results.
Entireweb
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
FactBites.com
A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The results return complete, informative sentences about the search topic. Related topics are suggested.
FirstGov Search
The U.S. Government's official search engine. Find information from federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Meta-search special government databases.
Gigablast
A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
Infosniff
A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
Mojeek
Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising.
MSN Search
Microsoft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
NPR : The Search Engine Wars
In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines.
Objects Search
An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
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