The Friday Fab Four!
Every Friday on AltSearchEngines, we feature four really alternative search engines.
YOOODLE.COM Yooodle bills itself as a very targeted search engine; a super-niche, I would say. Yooodle only searches for watch companies.
What’s in a name? While hiking the Swiss Alps, the founder heard some children playing in the distance, shouting and bouncing echoes off the mountain sides. One sounded like, “Yooodle,” and the rest is history.
Moving right along…
Sycarox Okay, here’s the deal with Sycarox - it is a search engine for “cheat codes” for video games. Enter your game as a search query, and Sycarox will return user submitted ways to cheat.
Alpinaut! Alpinaut searches out route diagrams for rock climbing, ice climbing, caving (spelunking), canyoning, scuba diving, skin diving, sport climbing, hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, mountain biking, via ferrata (?), and free flying. (What next? Cow tipping?) The color coded pins are located all over the globe on a full color map of the world on this interesting alternative search engine for the more adventurous searcher.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, or GBIF, lets you search for
orgasms, oops, I mean, organisms; you know, like little tiny creatures.
