Editor’s note: We have had some wonderful feedback to our trip to Sweden, so I am running this update. Please note that the most important piece, a Swedish volunteer who can describe these search engines in English for us, is still missing.

Every Saturday on AltSearchEngines, we continue our tour “around the world in 80 weeks.” Today we’ve landed in Sweden in search of new Alternative Search Engines, and below we’ve listed the Top 10.



There’s just one hitch. We don’t know how to read Swedish! So we’re running this Help Wanted ad. If you were born in Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Finland, we would love to hear from you. You could start by looking at the Top 10 Swedish Search Engines below and providing a short evaluation of each one – in English. That would be great. Just email me at: Charles@ReadWriteWeb.com

Thanks to Readle, Ambedo, and Picsearch for their help in preparing this list!

Translation sent in by ASE reader Bork: (an attempt at humor)

Efery Setoordey oon EltSeerchEngeenes, ve-a cuntinooe-a oooor tuoor “eruoond zee vurld in 80 veeks.” Tudey ve-a’fe-a lunded in Svedee in seerch ooff noo Elternetife-a Seerch Ingeenes, und beloo ve-a’fe-a leested zee Tup 10.

Zeere-a’s joost oone-a heetch. Ve-a dun’t knoo hoo tu reed Svedeesh! Su ve-a’re-a roonneeng thees Help Vunted ed. Iff yuoo vere-a born in Svedee, Nurvey, Denmerk oor Feenlund, ve-a vuoold lufe-a tu heer frum yuoo. Yuoo cuoold stert by luukeeng et zee Tup 10 Svedeesh Seerch Ingeenes beloo und prufeeding a shurt ifelooeshun ooff iech oone-a – in Ingleesh. Thet vuoold be-a greet. Joost imeeel me-a et: Cherles@ReedVreeteVeb.cum

Thunks tu Reedle-a, Embedu, und Peekserch fur zeeur help in prepereeng thees leest!

Readle

ambedo

Tasteline

hitta.se

picsearch

blocket.se

bokfynd.nu*

*Why does this ASE end with .nu? .se is Sweden and .no is Norway.
(.nu is officially the domain name for the tiny island nation of Niue!)

” .nu is to 99% used for Swedish companies. “nu” means “now” in Swedish.”

-Carl Särnstrand with Picsearch

clipoid

sesam.se

twingly

recept.org

Update:

There are a couple of other smaller Swedish start-ups. Here is a short but incomplete list of companies developing and providing search technology courtesy of Picsearch:


- Picsearch.com: Global image, audio and video search.
- Euroling.se: Corporate search service siteseeker.se
- Primelab.se: Twingly.se, local blog link search service
- Knuff.se: Local blog search
- Aitellu.se: Local news search service
- Frisim.se: Local news search service
- Retriever.se: Local news search service
- Observer.se: Local news search service (Cision.com)
- Worldlight.com: Web search and meta search