10 Ways to Search Without Google

1. ChaCha.com, where a real live "Guide" takes your query and returns related results tailor-made to your specifications. The service doesn't require any registration, and it's completely free.
2. StumbleUpon gives you thumbs-up/thumbs-down icons in your toolbar and lets you rate pages and sites you come across. As StumbleUpon learns your preferences, it gets better at directing you to stuff you'll like. There's also a social aspect; you can add other people with similar interests to your friends list, and their preferences will further refine your search results.
3. Clusty.com takes a different approach to search results. Whereas Google arranges your results in a simple list, Clusty first aggregates the results from several search engines (Google not included), then arranges them in clusters to help you further refine your search.
4. Kosmix.com is a topical search engine that is still very much a beta service. It conducts searches by category, and includes six for searching: Health, Video Games, Finance, Travel, US Politics, and Auto.
5. Technorati is a blog search service includes plenty of ways to search for the hottest blog content, including a Top Searches list, a list of the most-linked-to blogs, and the music, movies, videos, and games that the most bloggers are linking to.
6. Draze MetaSearch lets you collect search results quickly from the Big Three search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo. The homepage is a typical Google-looking page, with a search bar. Once you enter your search term, you get the best results back from all the different search engines.
7. Ms. Dewey is more of a sexy, playful search engine than a useful one. If you felt weird reading that, I felt even weirder typing it. Ms. Dewey is a personable (read: flirty) interface for Windows Live Search, which uses an actress's canned video responses and phrases to interact with users.
8. The Search With Kevin search engine is a promotional site built by Prodege where users can win great prizes like an autographed K-Fed CD. Beat that, Google! It's a bizarre little search tool, and includes Web, Image, and News searches, with a shopping search on the way.
9. Rollyo.com, short for "Roll Your Own Search Engine," lets users do just that. You can do general searches or category searches (like searching for "iPhone" in the Tech category) to get results from blogs and the Web at large, or create your own search engine (or "Searchroll") to only search specific sites.
10. netTrekker's a good one for the kiddies. The search engine is aimed at schools and students, and every site that is included in a list of search results has been hand-picked by a staff of educators to ensure safe surfing. A search for "stars," for instance, will include lots of info about constellations and zero about Paris Hilton. The only problem: it ain't free. The service costs a cool $4.95 a month.

[source: www.pcmag.com]