Search without Google?

Google has become so synonymous with web search that it’s become a verb - you can “Google your name” and similar activities.

And let’s face it, Google became the big cheese of search by having an idealistic bunch of geniuses running the show, who were concerned with user experience first, and monetisation second.

Somehow, that’s allowed them to become one of the world’s largest advertising companies.

Even still, there are something things you can’t find easily on Google - the array and volume of spam thrown at it means the various filters in play can sometimes make it difficult to find exactly what you want.

Now Rea Maor suggests 8 ways of searching the web outside of Google.

It’s a nice attempt to try and bring together a few different search alternatives - Nelson’s Search is a nice one I hadn’t heard of before - but most of the other suggestions seem to focus on checking up fragments set up by other search companies.

And no Yahoo! Search or MSN Live.

I think the biggest asset for search online is recommendations. I run a forum on books that people come to by word of mouth. It probably does okay on Google, but there’s nothing like people coming to your site because someone told them it was great, rather than having to crawl the web looking for something great.

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