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Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Topsy, Google

April 12th, 2011

How many other search engines you have tried, other than Google, Bing or Yahoo!?

Here’s some popular search engines which are not mainstream, but taking a different approach in displaying results.

Blekko
Launched November 1, 2010, Blekko aims to offer results culled from a set of 3 billion trusted websites and excluding material from such sites as content farms.
Blekko primarily uses slashtags to search only the sites you want and cut out the spam sites. use friends, experts, community or your own slashtags to slash in what you want and slash out what you don’t.
As of Blekko’s launch date, its 8,000 beta editors had developed 3,000 slashtags corresponding to the site’s most frequent searches.

Go to Blekko.

DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo’s weird name came from Duck, Duck, Goose the children’s game.
Kid not with it though. Although DuckDuckGo was solo-founded by Gabriel Weinberg in February 2008 and is still the only full-time person running it, DuckDuckGo has been going up the ranks in visitors/users.
It’s primary aim is to provide instant results, weed out spam and most importantly users’ privacy.
It claims that it does not store IP addresses, does not log user information, and only uses cookies when needed.

Go to DuckDuckGo.

Topsy
Topsy claims to be the search engine for the social web. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2006, Topsy is backed by BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister.
Rather than scour the whole Web to deduce what’s popular, Topsy analyzes links shared by influential twitter users.
For newsy topics, it’s an effective end run around online junk.

Go to Topsy.

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