14 Alternative search engines

1. boardreader-is search engine for Forums and Boards.

2. BuzzSumo-is powerful online tool that allows any user to find out what content is popular by topic or on any website.

3. Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of web data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.

4. RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio, video.

5. DuckDuckGo-is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.[2] DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term.

6. Quantcast Corporation is a digital marketing company that provides free audience demographics measurement and delivers real-time advertising.

7. topst- was a real-time search engine for social posts and socially shared content, primarily on Twitter and Google Plus.[15][16] The service ranked results using a proprietary social influence algorithm that measured social media authors on how much others supported what they were saying.

8. Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

8.1. Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

9. Wolfram Alpha (also styled WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is a computational knowledge engine[5] or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research, which was founded by Stephen Wolfram. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data",[6] rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.

10. Bing- is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It uses the ASP.NET programming language and follows the design principles of Microsoft's "Metro" design language.

11. Blekko- was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpages and excluding such sites as content farms.

12. SocialMention-is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of information.

13. Technorati- is a publisher advertising platform that serves as an advertising solution for the thousands of websites in its network.

14. Wolfram Alpha- (also styled WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is a computational knowledge engine[5] or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research, which was founded by Stephen Wolfram. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data",[6] rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.