So, we’ve all been there. You’re looking for something online and you’ve searched, and searched, and searched, yet you can’t seem to find it anywhere. This is where Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com) comes in handy.
Yahoo! Answers is service that allows visitors to submit questions to Yahoo!’s user base in the hopes that someone already knows what you’re looking for or at least where to find it.
Tags: Q&A, Yahoo!Search.io is a Tabbed search engine that allows you to query multiple sites at one time, each result page divided by tabs.
Now, I typically don’t like to profile tabbed style search engines… meaning, search engines that don’t have their own results, just display search results from other sites. However, Search.io is rather unique because of it’s scale. Instead of just searching through the major search engines like Google or Yahoo!, Search.io goes way beyond and also allows you to search for CSS galleries, fonts, blogs, video, lyrics, recipes, and on, and on and on.
Tags: aggregation, TabbedEvery Week we recap the sites and browser plugins we’ve reviewed throughout the week… just in case you missed one. If you would like to follow along and get updated when we add a new review and plugin, Subscribe to our RSS Feed.
We had a lot of unique search engines this week. We started off with RedZee.com… a visual search engine with an animated Red Zebra for a Mascot instead of a logo.
Tags: Saturday Search RoundupSearchii.com is a New Zealand based search engine that seems to have taken the web 2.0 design playbook and followed it to a “T”. The site combines a rather appealing search interface with some decent results to create a very unique and pleasant search engine experience.
Searchii got it’s start as a (relatively) local search engine that provided accurate results for New Zealand web sites. Once they honed in their algorythms to work with just New Zealand based sites, they expanded the search to other countries and eventually the web as a whole.
We’re currently only providing the international search engine as a browser search plugin, however… if you’re a Kiwi or from Ireland, Australia, or the United Kingdom, Searchii.com does provide local results for you as well. More »
Tags: Alternative Search Engine, web 2.0Ixquick.com is meta search engine that essentially consolidates results from many major search engines and web sites into one location.
Unlike other consolidation or aggregation search engines that just rehash the results from several of the major search engines, Ixquick takes this one step further by adding results from social media, news, and directory sites.
Now, Ixquick isn’t going to win any beauty contests, but the search results are well organized and easy to read. However, I do have to mention that the site looks like it was designed circa 1996 and hasn’t been touched since. (the earth image behind the logo is an especially 90’s touch) More »
Tags: aggregation, Alternative Search Engines, meta searchYokel.com is a shopping search engine and price comparison site that lets you find products found in local stores.
While the search engine seems to focus on the major big-box type stores, it does include a few mom-and-pop sites and stores in the area… but, the lack of truly local stores might be a result of my location (Duluth, MN) than anything else. It would be interesting to give it a try in some of the more larger metropolitan areas. More »
Tags: Local Search, ShoppingAsk.com is one of the web’s most popular alternative search engines and an alternative to the major search engine players such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
The search results are rather impressive and compete on a level playing field with major search engines. However, Ask.com does provide some advanced and unique features only found on this site.
The following paragraphs detail some of the unique features and my impressions of the interface.
Tags: Alternative Search EnginesRedZee.com is an visual search engine, with a very attractive and alternative interface of it’s search results. Instead of presenting it’s visitors with a list of web sites, RedZee provides an arching scroll feature that can be dragged using mouse inputs.
The one word I would probably describe this site, would be character… literally. The first thing you notice when you visit the homepage, is very large flash animation of a Red Zebra character. Hence the name “red zee”.
While it does provide you with a very attractive and enjoyable interface, i did find a few quirks with the search results and usability that might present challenges for some visitors and will detail those in the following paragraphs. More »
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Tags: Saturday Search RoundupPowerset is a semantic search engine that hopes to solve the issue of teaching computers to learn or language.
In it’s current format, Powerset currently only indexes Wikipedia and Freebase for it’s data, but they hope to expand that search to additional sites in the future. More »
Tags: semantic, wikipediaThe List at Addoursearch.com is a running directory of useful sites you can add and search directly from your browser's built in search function.
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