Ironically, all "Human Googles" know that searching the Internet is not equivalent to Google.
Beyond the well-known generalist alternatives (Yahoo !, Live and Ask), there is an incredible and unknown variety of search engines specialized in other types of content: images, videos, blogs, forums, podcasts, people, and information generated by users. Its results can be classified, grouped, or represented graphically. There are huge opportunities for web searches - not just web pages and not just Google.
Come in and check out a selection of exotic name alternatives: Omgili, Cuil, Blinkx, Silobreaker, Zuula, and Quintura.
Omgili.com is, in his words, a search engine for "subjective information". It exclusively indexes user-generated content platforms such as forums, discussion groups, mailing lists, question services and others. For this, it collects the information of the title, content and answers, which makes it easier for the user to find answers to questions already asked by other users. It is an ideal place to find personal experiences, ideas, recommendations, opinions, and solutions to problems. Their directory includes a huge index of online communities. It is very easy to use, it has some specialized search options, and it structures the results page in “Google style”. The only bad thing, something common: it is in English.
Cuil.com is a general search engine created by some former Google employees, and whose objective is more to touch up some features of the popular search engine than to take a radically alternative approach. Its algorithm is designed to index more by quality than by popularity of content, it claims to reach areas of the Internet that Google does not reach (or does not want to reach), and it analyzes the websites in depth (Google only indexes approximately the first 100 kbs. of each document). In accordance with these premises, the results are presented not in the form of a list, as Google does, but grouped into various concepts (official websites vs. third-party references).
The objective is that the user, at a glance, get an idea of the depth and breadth of the information effectively available on the Internet about the terms they are looking for.
Blinkx.com is one of the reference video search engines on the Internet. It allows the search and classification of audio files, video and multimedia clips, podcasts and video blogs from no less than 450 content providers. Its main advantage is that it uses speech recognition technology to listen to the audio component of video content, and then it uses phonetics and text transcripts to match the content of search queries. Blinkx's advertising claims to be the largest video index on the Internet, with 35 million hours indexed and classified by category.
Silobreaker.com is a search engine for news and current events that aims to overcome the limitations of newspaper websites, Google News aggregators, and social news services (Menéame, Digg and many others). Although the news is presented in list mode, Silobreaker recognizes certain relevant information (people, companies, topics, places, keywords), highlights it and provides extra information by hovering over it, understands how the various data relate to each other in the news flow, and puts it in context for the user. In addition, different “boxes” full of information and graphics appear on the sides, expanding the text of the news. All this makes Silobreaker, more than to read news,It is especially useful to study in depth a specific topic according to current information available on the web.
Zula.com is a metasearch engine for websites, images, videos, news, blogs and jobs whose main novelty is that, instead of mixing the results of its sources, it organizes the results of each search engine through tabs (Google, Yahoo and Live Search, and other less popular Gigablast or Mojeek). When the user performs a search, the first results displayed are those of the search engine assigned to the first tab, although this presentation is customizable. Ideal to search in an orderly way in a lot of search engines at the same time.
Quintura.com is a search engine that bases its power on relating the searched words with other terms and presenting them graphically. The results appear in the form of a tag cloud that facilitates visual navigation to other topics of interest related to the topic in question. This way of presenting information is powerful: for example, if you search for “Google Human” in Quintura, my name and the profession of documentary filmmaker appear as context information, and if you then mouse over each of the labels, the list of results changes to adapt to the scope of the new term. Again, the idea is to overcome the very limited concept of Google's list of 10 results with a presentation style "an image is worth a thousand words".
In short, the "Human Googles" do not use only Google, but also use the tools (search engines in this case) most adapted to their needs. Dare to try some of the alternatives that I offer you.
