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Search.io - The Ultimate Tabbed Search Engine

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http://www.search.io

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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.

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Searchii.com - An Attractive, Web 2.0 Styled Search Engine

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http://www.searchii.com

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Searchii.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 »

Ixquick.com - A Meta Search Engine With Privacy Credentials

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http://www.ixquick.com

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Ixquick.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.

The Design

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 »

Ask.com - A Feature Loaded Alternative Search Engine

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http://www.ask.com

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Ask.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.

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RedZee.com - A Visual Search Engine with “Character”

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http://www.redzee.com

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RedZee.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 »

Powerset.com - The Semantic Search Engine Acquired by Microsoft

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http://www.powerset.com

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Powerset 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 »

Rowdii.com - An Easy To Use Search Engine with Social Commentary

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http://www.rowdii.com

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Rowdii.com is a new search engine with social commentary and linking capabilities.  By creating an account, users can comment and discuss the result with other users, as well as link sites together.

While the social commentary on search results is nothing new (See our review of Scour.com), the site does present some interesting features and a new take on search results. I’ll walk you through a few of my findings below of this very clean little search engine. More »

Addictomatic.com - A Topic Aggregation Site with Search Capabilities

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http://www.addictomatic.com

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Addictomatic is a topic aggregation site similar to Alltop.com or popurls.com in that it aggregates all the best content on the web into one location.  The main difference between Addict-o-matic and the other aggregation sites, is it’s focus on search and personalization.

While Addictomatic.com does provide you with a few canned or popular topics on it’s homepage, the real strength of this little application comes from it’s search capabilities.  Even though it doesn’t perform the search results as I expected, it’s still a nice addition to the genre.  Read further for a review of my experience and check out the site to decide for yourself. More »

Scour.com - Search Results with Social Input

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http://www.scour.com

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Scour.com is a new take on the social search engine Genre.  While most “social” search engines rely on group or growd input for finding results. However Scour uses major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, then allows it’s users to vote on results and provide comments as well.

On top of being a rather well thought out and useful search engine, Scour also “pays you to search”.  Essentially, if you sign up for an account with them, you earn points for every time you search. These points are then redeamable by means of a Scour branded Visa gift card.  This is an interesting concept, but one that’s been done before.  However, Scour is a useful search engine by itself… so you might as well get paid while you do it. More »

SamePoint.com - An Actual Conversational Search Engine

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http://www.samepoint.com

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SamePoint.com is a conversational search engine that connects and tracks the same conversation from multiple sources.  Essentially the application indexes social media sites like blogs, lifecasting applications, and social gathering sites to find conversations that connect them all together.

While the concept and functionality of this site are truly unique and provides a lot of promise, I have to say the execution and design needs a lot of work. However, if you’re looking for an actual conversation engine and not just another forum search, give this one a look. More »