12 Alternates of Google Search Engine

Some days back we write about Interesting Google Advanced Search Operators, now today we are giving you the List of Alternates of Google Search Engine. You can find all sorts of great stuff using these alternative search engines that you might not be able to find on the more well-known search engines; plus, many of these niche search engines have really interesting features that are fun to play with.

Blinkx :-

Blinkx TV is a search engine that helps you find audio, video, and podcasts using not only keywords and phrases, but also content in the actual clips that you’re looking for.

MP3Realm :-

Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album. Mp3Realm also index’s lyrics, so you can sing along to your favorite songs.

AuctionMapper :-

AuctionMapper is an extremely cool search engine that focuses only on eBay auctions. Sure, eBay has it’s own site search; but AuctionMapper takes that site search and goes a few steps further.

TuneFind :-

The site is dedicated to providing users with the names of artists/song titles that have appeared on their favorite television shows, and even movies. TuneFind often has songs listed for episodes within minutes of their appearance on TV. This flexibility requires us to have an advanced system for identifying which submissions are accurate and which are inaccurate.

Healthline :-

Healthline.com is a medical information search engine. Healthline is solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and it offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel. It’s really an excellent tool for finding all kinds of medical information.

National Geographic’s Map Search Engine :-

National Geographic’s Map Machine is a gigantic collection of all the National Geographic maps in a searchable online database. There is so much to the Map Machine that it’s best to look at it piece by piece. Start with the Map Machine categories to get a big picture view of all that National Geographic map search has to offer.

Technorati :-

Technorati is a real-time search engine dedicated to the blogosphere. It only searches through blogs to find exactly what you’re looking for. At the time of this writing, Technorati was tracking over 22 million sites and over a billion links, a mind-boggling amount.

Clusty :-

Clusty is a meta search engine, meaning it combines results from a variety of different sources. However, Clusty adds a bit of extra search engine goodness in the mix by giving you clustered results.

Dogpile

Dogpile is a meta search engine, meaning that it gets results from multiple search engines and directories and then presents them combined to the user. Dogpile currently gets its results from Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Ask , About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more.

MuviBee :-

MuviBee lets users search for music and music videos (via YouTube) that might be associated with the song. The site proves to be versatile and certainly unique, providing users with Top 10 Charts from iTunes, the US, UK and Germany as well as direct links to Amazon and iTunes if you should decide to purchase music you like.

ClipBlast :-

ClipBlast! is the Internet’s fastest growing Web-Wide Video Index, Search and Navigation Platform. ClipBlast features short videos from a variety of mainstream sources, including Hulu, TBS, BBC etc. The site is easy to use and loaded with enough content to keep you busy for hours.

Filestube :-

Filestube takes Rapidshare1 to another level by aggregating its searches to include several other networks including MegaUpload, YouSendIt, Filefront etc. Searches can also be filtered by file type which adds more convenience to the engine.