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TurboScout. Torrent Search Engine. Search engine and human edited web directory KartOO. Pictures. Forum Search - Omgili. Comprehensive list of Search Engines - The Search Engine List. 3 Forum Search Engines to Search 40.000+ Message Boards. I have always found something special about finding information on forums. On most forums, the information you can find there is REALLY useful, almost always within reason. The search engines below are really great at finding some of those useful forum posts. Some of them are even more relevant than Google in displaying results (for those that don’t know you can search probably over 90% of forums via Google by adding the inurl:forum operator.) All of these engines can search by post date, post number and other factors. Google can’t (currently).

Without further ado, let’s start. Omgili What is it about? Some great free services offered by Omgili are: - Google@Omgili: it returns Google results. . - Omgili Q&A: I honestly haven’t found a better Q&A search engine than this which returns more relevant results. Boardreader What is it about? The thing I don’t like about Boardreader is that they try to be all in one – video search, microblogs search, they even search images! BoardTracker. MetaCrawler. Entireweb - The web, images and realtime search engine. The Top 5 Google Alternatives and Why You Should Use Them. In fact, in 1998 when it first went live on the official Google.com domain, the beta was publically labeled by its creators as a “might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype”. While the mechanics of it have improved dramatically since then, it still relies on the number of backlinks to theorise how important a webpage is. A lot of us have grown sick of what could be called an outdated way to display results and maybe even resent their market dominance.

If you want to shed that mentality of instantly “Googling it” then you’ve got to take the leap, here are five excellent Google alternatives – each one has their own specific goals and a different way of doing things; and no, they’re not Bing, Yahoo! Or Wolfram Alpha. FactBites Normally, when you search for something on Google, or any of the big search engines for that matter you’re returned results based on the popularity of the page.

This search engine is great for things such as school work and research for articles or other such works. Quintura. eTools.ch: The Fast Metasearch Engine from Switzerland. DuckDuckGo. Ixquick Web Pesquisar. Startpage Web Pesquisar. Quintura - visual search engine. Clusty - The Clustering Search Engine. Dogpile Web Search. CUIL! Global. Web Search.