The top 10 alternatives to Google search

Bing it? Hunch it? Cuil it?

By Nick Heath, 16 June 2009 12:13

Kosmix

Rather than returning a page full of the "infamous 10 blue links", Kosmix presents a web page that mimics that layout of a magazine article, offering facts, pictures, videos and comments on your chosen subject.

Kosmix taps into a raft of web 2.0 content, sucking in feeds from Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube as well as blog and forum postings. It's definitely an interesting choice if searching for a topic rather than a particular website.

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  1. 1. David Gaskill

    This item give some very interesting any useful data on a range of search engines but what is the point of the pictures?

    The size is such that the text is completely unreadable. A copy of your gas bill or a picture of Magna Carta would have been equally informative. Screen shots of anything at this image size are a complete waste of screen space. Let's have more text instead.

    David

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