LESSER-KNOWN SEARCH ENGINES
Mamma.com was founded in 1996 and is one of the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites. The service also provides a paid listings option for advertisers, Mamma Classifieds. It had a honorable mention in the Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards.
Perhaps the biggest benefit of DuckDuckGo is it doesn’t collect nor does it share your personal information. In addition, DuckDuckGo doesn’t make users scroll through dozens of pages to find an answer. Web users also enjoy the Web of Trust, which allows them to determine which sites are safe enough to visit, and pointless pages thrown up just to make revenue but without any real content never appear in search results.
The self-described “most private search engine” in the world, Ixquick does not store users’ browsing histories, nor does it keep track of IP addresses, making it an ideal option for web browsers who want to keep their information private. In fact, all searches are encrypted to provide you with complete privacy.
Yippy is an ideal search engine for families and those who are fed up with porn sites ending up in their search results. The search engine promises extremely tight security. It asserts that it doesn’t store any of your private information, your search history, your email addresses, and other vital information.
Gigablast advertises itself as the “Green Search Engine,” as it runs on wind energy, providing search results for an estimated 10 million web users. Gigablast has been around for nearly a decade, and the search engine searches through all websites on a particular keyword or phrase, rather than just individual pages.
InfoSpace is a meta search engine which reranks results based on how they rank in the major search engines. I do not worry much about optimizing my sites for InfoSpace, I just try to rank well in the major search engines and I will rank well in InfoSpace too. Infospace powers many meta search websites. Meta searching allows the combination of search results from chosen sources to be re ranked and displayed according to a new relevance structure.
Dogpile is a search engine created by Infospace and it is powered by Metasearch’s technology. It is essentially a search engine aggregator as it returns results from Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
ExactSeek is a search engine that indexes over 30,000 new site submissions daily. There are over 500 million websites in their index. You can pay to have your website included as well.
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