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Everyone knows about Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and the other major search engines that dominate our bookmarks and desktops. What many people don't know is that there are 100's of smaller, topic specific search engines that can be more effective than the big boys at finding what you are really looking for. Here's a list of the top 100 alternate search engines as compiled by www.altsearchengines.com.

50matches.com* www.50matches.com Social Powered Search

Accoona* www.accoona.com A. I. Search

AfterVote (past SEM) www.aftervote.com Social Search 

Agent 55 www.agent55.com Meta Search

Allth.at www.allth.at Continuous Search 

Answers.com www.answers.com Facts Search

Audiobaba www.audiobaba.com Music Recommendation 

Blabline www.blabline.com Podcast Search

blinkx www.blinkx.com Video Search 

Blogdigger* www.blogdigger.com Blog Search

BlogDimension www.blogdimension.com International 

Bookmach www.bookmach.com Bookmark Search

ChaCha {#1 2006} www.chacha.com Guided Search

ClipBlast! www.clipblast.com Video Search

Clusty mobile http://m.clusty.com Clusty Mobile

Cognitionsearch www.cognitionsearch.com Semantic Search

Collarity* www.collarity.com Social Search

Congoo www.congoo.com Premium Content Search

CrossEngine www.crossengine.com Meta Search

Decipho www.decipho.com Filtered Search

Deligio* www.deligio.com Software Search

Dialogus http://dialogus.ru International

Exalead www.exalead.com International

Factbites www.factbites.com Facts Search

Faroo http://www.faroo.com International

FeedMiner www.feedminer.com RSS Feed Search

Feedster ww.feedster.com RSS Feed Search

FilesTube www.filestube.com File Sharing

FindSounds* www.findsounds.com Sound Search

Fisssh!* www.fisssh.com Filtered Search

FyberSearch www.fybersearch.com Multi-featured Search

GameSkoot www.gameskoot.com Games Search

GenieKnows (Games) www.genieknows.com Games Search

Gigablast www.gigablast.com Blog Search

gogo www.gogo.ru International

GoPubMed www.gopubmed.com Health Search

GoshMe (past SEM) www.goshme.com Meta Meta Search

Grabble www.lgrabble.co.za International

Grokker www.grokker.com Meta Search

guruji www.guruji.com International        

Hakia www.hakia.com Meaning Based Search

Healthline www.healthline.com Health Search

Helia www.helia.cm Health Search

iBoogie www.iboogie.com Clustered Search

Icerocket www.icerocket.com Blog Search

indeed www.indeed.com Job Search

ixquick* www.ixquick.com Meta Search

KartOO (past SEM) www.kartoo.com Clustering Search

Knuru www.knuru.com Business Search

KoolTorch (Past SEM) www.kooltorch.com Visualization

Kosmix www.kosmix.com “Smart Search”

Krugle www.krugle.com Code Search

lijit* www.lijit.com People Search 

Like www.like.com Image Search

LivePlasma* www.liveplasma.com Music Recommendation 

Mojeek www.mojeek.com Custom Search Engines (CSE)

Molu www.themolu.com International 

MP3Realm http://mp3realm.org MP3 Search

Ms. Freckles www.msfreckles.com/?lang=en Google Mash Up 

nnseek www.nnseek.com News Group Search

Nutshell www.nutshell.com Meta Search 

Omgili www.omgili.com Social Search

Pagebull www.pagebull.com Visual Results 

Picsearch www.picsearch.com International

Pipl http://pipl.com People Search 

Pixsy www.pixsy.com Photo Search

Pluggd www.pluggd.com Podcast Search 

Podnova www.podnova.com Podcast Search

Purevideo* www.purevideo.com Video Search 

Quintura (past SEM) www.quintura.com Discovery Search

Quintura kids http://kids.quintura.com kids search engine 

Revolutionhealth www.revolutionhealth.com Health Search

RSS Micro www.rssmicron.com RSS Feeds 

Searchbots www.searchbots.net Continuous Search

Searchles www.searchles.com Social Search 

SearchTheWeb2 www.searchtheweb2.com Search the Long Tail

SeeIt* www.seeit.com Image Search 

Serph www.serph.com “Track buzz in real time”

Sidekiq www.sidekiq.com “Search anything quick” 

Simplyhired www.simplyhired.com Job Search

Skreemr www.skreemr.com Audio Search 

Slifter* www.slifter.com Mobile Shopping Search

Sphere www.sphere.com Blog Posts Search 

Sproose* www.sproose.com Social Search

Srchr www.srchr.com Meta Search 

Sugar Code the Web www.sugarcodes.com Command Line

Surfwax www.surfwax.com Meaning Based Search 

Swamii* www.swamii.com Continuous Search

TheFind.com www.thefind.com Shopping Search 

Trexy www.trexy.com “Search Trails”

Turboscout www.turboscout.com Meta Search 

Twerq www.twerq.com Tabbed Results

ViewFour www.viewfour.com Visual Results 

WasaLive http://en.wasalive.com RSS Search

Wazap! www.wazap.com Games Search 

Whonu?* www.whonu.com Meta Search

WiseNut www.wisenut.com Clustered Search 

Wize http://wize.com Product Search

Yoople! www.yoople.com Collaborative Search