1) Do not forget to describe why you like one of the Top 10, do not just list a name.
2) The Search Engine of the Year will have many sources, and not just this survey.
On Monday, December 3rd, AltSearchEngines will publish its final Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list for 2007. Along the way, there have been 10 search engines that have earned the distinction of Search Engine of the Month. One of these 10 will be named the Search Engine of the Year, 2007.
We want you to have time to carefully check out each one. Some ask you to request a login and password. Each one is very different, and excellent in their own way. When you have an opinion, please write a comment to this post – just listing which one you like the best and telling us why.
There’s not that much time, just three weeks to go!
Exalead AltSearchEngines (ASE) recently named Exalead as its Search Engine of the Month. Notes the AltSearchEngines editor: “Exalead offers new tools that allow you to find the information you seek on the Web quicker and better, with many helpful options, excellence in Search, constant improvement and innovation”
Omgili As opposed to traditional search engines, which search for sites and pages, Omgili finds consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions. Most of the questions have already been answered – find the answers through Omgili. Most of the technical problems have been solved – find the solutions through Omgili.
KoolTorch is making it easier for people to find and use knowledge. KoolTorch provides an eye-pleasing format for easily and quickly viewing large numbers of search results displayed in a useful context. Our unique visualization of search results based on categorization and clustering with large numbers of results on a single page helps to make sense of what a user is searching.
GoshMe You may not know but there are more than half a million search engines out there on the Internet, with exclusive content and features. GoshMe will be the way to discover them, and even better, the key to know when and how to use them.
AfterVote has so much stuff that has been done lately. We released a major update with a UI release. We have just finalized a major deal with a very large website to have AfterVote be the exclusive search provider. If you haven’t stopped by in a while, check it out.
KartOO is a MetaSearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm. As soon as you launch a search, Kartoo analyses your request, questions the most relevant engines, selects the best sites and places them on a map.
Answers.com is your free “one-stop shop” with instant information on over 4 million topics. Look up any word or phrase for the best definition or explanation on the Web. Not lists of links… just the information you’re looking for. They start with 180 trusted titles from the most prestigious reference publishers, to give you the most comprehensive page available on a given subject.
Dialogus поисковая машина нового поколения, осуществляет автоматический поиск прямых ответов на вопросы пользователей is a new generation search engine. Dialogus automatically search answers to users questions. Convenience – only answers to questions, no links review. Finding – answers, facts, quotes, ideas, opinions. Time – saving time and attention.
Onkosh is the search portal for the Arabic web. Anything in Arabic on the web, we’ve got it. Anything Arabic-related in English or French on the web, we’ve got it. Onkosh understands the Arabic language and utilizes advanced Natural Language Processing techniques to ensure that you receive the best results for your search query.
يضمن قائمة عريضة من المواقع التي تخص العرب سواء كانت باللغة العربية أو الانجليزية أو الفرنسية. يعتمد أنكش على تقنياتية متقدمة حديثة تضمن الحصول على أفضل النتائج لكلمات البحث محل السؤال من صفحات الانترنت.
While viewing the Quintura Cloud, you can visually navigate and easily refine in order to find relevant information faster and more efficiently! The Quintura search widget will help you get an instant overview of your site, navigate intuitively through content by just clicking words in the cloud, and get free fast search engine on your site. Forget about dull search boxes and get a new 2.0 experience.
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November 11th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Onkosh is a revolution for the arabic internet..Thnx to the creators..We got a voice now:)
November 11th, 2007 at 6:13 am
i vote for Onkosh.com
November 11th, 2007 at 6:17 am
Onkosh is our arabian search engine and it has a new approach to arabian existance in web, go ahead
November 11th, 2007 at 6:18 am
i vote for ONKOSH
November 11th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Onkosh is the Best
November 11th, 2007 at 6:20 am
Definitely Onkosh !!
November 11th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Onkosh
November 11th, 2007 at 6:29 am
i vote for OnKoSh
November 11th, 2007 at 6:32 am
i vote for Onkosh.com
November 11th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Onkosh for sure
November 11th, 2007 at 6:39 am
i vote for onkosh
onkosh is the best
November 11th, 2007 at 7:39 am
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November 11th, 2007 at 8:00 am
Definitely Onkosh !! onkosh is the best
November 11th, 2007 at 9:02 am
It’s new! It’s Different! It’s fresh! It’s my vote!
November 11th, 2007 at 9:03 am
It’s new! It’s Different! It’s fresh! It’s my vote!
November 11th, 2007 at 9:11 am
I vote for Omgili. Simply the best…
November 11th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Quintura is the best!!!
November 11th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH !!
November 11th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Answers.com and Quintura.com or Exalead.com coming in second.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Definitely Omgili!! the best!!!
November 12th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Omgili is the BEST!!!
November 12th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Quintura – is the best engine! because it’s real discovery engine!
November 12th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Quintura because it’s so amazing
November 12th, 2007 at 4:34 am
I vote for Onkosh… It’s very usefull.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:41 am
I vote for exalead : relevance of results, options of research, innovation, feedback…
November 12th, 2007 at 4:48 am
will go for Quintura, as the visualization layer for search results adds a true value.
November 12th, 2007 at 5:05 am
I don’t speak Arabic…but my vote goes for Onkosh !
November 12th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Quintura is the best one from all search engines in Runet. I like it very much. Developers have produced a visualisation as a instruments for seek.
Respect!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:01 am
I vote for Quintura!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Quintura – is the best!
November 12th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Onkosh for sure
if you try it you will not leave it
November 12th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Omgili by far! Just because there is no one like it – the data source is unique and extremely useful if you want to find opinions, solutions and so on. Relevancy is superb when it comes to its territory.
And p.s for those who spam the replies with “Onkosh” please supply a reason, I get it Arabic search engine, but you can search Google and limit it to Arabic don’t you? No real added value!
November 12th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Why? Quintura is exploit associative method of search, which correspond
whith the work of the brain.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:44 am
why onkosh ? because it is design for arabic user – it has arabic keyboard, bel3araby, arabic file search…all not found in google. Bill please have a look and then comment
November 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Go Omgili!
November 12th, 2007 at 10:30 am
ONKOSH is helful to Arabic user – better than Google who is general.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:32 am
I vote for Onkosh, It’s the best.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:43 am
I vote for Omgili
November 12th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Onkosh rules
November 12th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Onkosh of Course Ya Regala .
November 12th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I vote for Onkosh
November 12th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Onkosh
November 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I voted for Onkosh coz it’s gives very relevant information from the crawled arabic sites
November 12th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Onkosh for sure
November 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Onkosh is the best
November 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I vote for Onkosh , really i recommend this engine
November 12th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I vote for Onkosh
November 12th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I Love and Vote for Quintura.ru !
November 13th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Yes for ONKOSH.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Onkosh is the best!
November 13th, 2007 at 2:36 am
I vote for Onkosh , really i recommend this engine
November 13th, 2007 at 3:19 am
I vote for Onkosh as it is a pioneer in its concept and it is a one of a kind. GO Onkosh!!!
November 13th, 2007 at 3:40 am
I vote for Onkosh.com for the extended features it places for an Arabic Search Engine. Especially for the Keyboard feature which is really unique. and the added features of other searched for blogs, news, and others. thse features are really good and accurate in results.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:44 am
ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH ONKOSH !!!!
November 13th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Quintura – a first visual search service! This steeply.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Onkosh for sure
November 13th, 2007 at 5:38 am
Definetly, Dialogus is the best. It gives answers, good answers. It’s the first in Russia. Neat!
November 13th, 2007 at 6:02 am
onkosh is the best, their new english/arabic interface is really cool and it’s definitely a revolution in the search technology, Onkosh all the way
November 13th, 2007 at 6:07 am
i think that the search engines of the future will have to dish out less information and more solutions (you got google for finding millions and millions of sites).
some of these search engines figured this out and are supplying a service beyond “search”.
if i had to choose just one, i would submit omgili…the interface is simple and i got the impression that the people behind it are interested in trying to personalize searches.
good luck…
November 13th, 2007 at 6:08 am
I vote for Onkosh as it makes searching in arabic language more easier than any other search engine.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Onkosh because it is english/arabic that unlike search engines like google, it searches all derivatives arabic words, by changing inflections, suffixes and prefixes, unlike google for instances which does literal string matching.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:06 am
Yes for ONKOSH since t is for the first time there is a search engine that uses the chat way of communication in searching for Arabic words.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I vote for Onkosh because:-
1- Richer Usability
2- Support for Arabic search using latin letters
November 13th, 2007 at 8:07 am
I vote for exalead. A search engine with lots of features and a good interface.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I vote for quintura.ru
November 13th, 2007 at 9:43 am
EXALEAD IS THE BEST !
November 13th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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November 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Onkosh.com is the best
November 13th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Onkosh is really cool, i wish they open their APIs like google and live, i can build very cool services on top of it
November 13th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Onkooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
November 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Oh, Exalead is the best, it’s evident =D .
+1 FOR EXALEAD !
November 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I’m french and I vote for Exalead, it’s a good one that each of us could make it better!
Try and use it!
November 13th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I vote for Exalead, which is the best alternative search engine owing to its innovation and its interface !
November 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Dialogus is very good search engine for russian and english questions.
// One of Dialogus’s developers.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I vote for exalead wich provides excellent search tools and excellent search results : a real alternative to google everyday searches. Exalead is an innovative search engine with lots of new features provided this year : wikipedia search, image search options, social search… There is also a good community of feedbackers and exateam is very accessible. So, i vote for Exalead, search engine of the year !
November 13th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Voting for Onkosh.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I vote for Onkosh
November 14th, 2007 at 3:47 am
I vote for Onkosh, it is a great Arabic Search engine
November 14th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Onkosh is the Best,Onkosh is the Best,Onkosh is the Best,Onkosh is the Best
November 14th, 2007 at 3:55 am
i loved the amazing features in Onkosh and it some how look and feel like google
I vote for Onkosh
November 14th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Onkosh is the greatest.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Onkoshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
November 14th, 2007 at 4:51 am
I vote for Exalead! It’s the best one!
November 14th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Exalead has changed my life, thus I vote for him !
November 14th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Exalead
November 14th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Je vote pour Exalead !
November 14th, 2007 at 9:39 am
I vote for Onkosh.com
I liked the transliterate function alot
November 14th, 2007 at 11:37 am
More info about why I choose Exalead
> Exalead is French … and I’m French ^^
> There are a lot of thumbnails
> I love the design
> We can search on Wikipedia
> We can search on videos websites
> User interface use Javascript animations, and it’s fun …
> The block on the right while the search is really useful !
> The image search is very nice (back or white background, face search …)
> And there is a real community, we can propose new functionalities and improvements to the devteam
November 14th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
i vote for ONKOSH
November 14th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I vote for Exalead !
November 14th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Onkosh is excellent for arabic user, for many reasons :
1 – it has transliteration feature, unique to onkosh
2 – it has blog search focused on arabic blogs
3 – it has file search for arabic files
4 – it has arabic news that show news of all arabic news sites
5 – the search understand arabic, not just simple search
you must all vote for onkosh !!
November 14th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I vote for EXALEAD
November 14th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Exalead!
November 15th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Answers.com
November 15th, 2007 at 3:07 am
omgili seems to be the best out of this list….
November 15th, 2007 at 6:34 am
My vote comment will be:” I simply have Onkosh as my default search engine.” Only way to find out why is to TRY. Cheers.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:19 am
i vote for Onkosh.com
i like it …. the idea, everything
November 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I vote for Onkosh.
It always has whatever I’m looking for.
November 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Exalead is the best with picture visualisation.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
OK, I vote for the dynamism and the sympathy of the team of Exalead
November 15th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Exalead !
I love the previews, the quality of the results, the toolbar on the right which is just excellent for search refining, and many other things I can’t think of right now.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Exalead is the best. The navigation is sweet and so much better than any of other well known search engines. Really really like the wiki search and the facial recognition in image search is innovative and useful.
Nice job!
November 16th, 2007 at 4:22 am
I would vote for Exalead. I am quite sad and have actually looked at all the search engines above here and find Exalead to be the number one search engine for my general and specific needs. Unlike Google, you can refine your result set so you are not left with millions of results some of which are relevant but the vast majority are not relevant. As a librarian Exalead’s ability to refine search down using its advanced search capabilities using logical and regular expressions is a god’s send.
Please keep up the good work…. cannot wait to see what else these guys are up to…
November 16th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Onkosh gets my vote. It’s built from the ground up to serve it’s target audience – the Arabic internet user. It doesn’t just go for the “usual suspects” features that other generic engines have, its feature set is really what the Arabic internet user wants. I wish them and altsearchengines.com all the best.
November 16th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I vote for Exalead, videos, wikipedia, images, thunbmails… the best one !
November 16th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
i vote for onkosh because it’s very easy & useful
November 16th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Bill,
It is unfair from you to say that those who vote for “onkosh” are SPAMS!!
Many people defined why they consider Onkosh as the best engine and there is no reason to always repeat the same reasons, thats why some people make it short.
Onkosh is a very intelligent tool. In the Arabic alphabet you have letters which are no available in the “latinum” and onkosh understands it. For example in the Arabic alphabet we have 2 different levels of the letter “H”. So those who have no Arabic keyboard right “H” and they call the other level “7″. Onkosh understands this and automatically translates the “7″ into an Arabic letter.
In addition to that many people do not have an Arabic keyboard and therefore Onkosh installed an online keyboard. So everyone can write in Arabic.
And it translates every word from English to Arabic
Bill..Onkosh is simple AMAZING:)))
November 17th, 2007 at 1:13 am
i love this page because thank to it i was able to find people i have not hear from.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:42 am
the best arabic website. thnx 4 its founders.
November 17th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Onkosh made a significant addition to the Arabic web. I vote for Onkosh.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Onkosh indeed, i really like the Arabic translator there… the keyboard… the safe searching..REALLY EXCELLENT.. i am using it as a replacement for google
November 17th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Onkosh. com,, first egyptian and can understand arabic easily,,, good job
November 17th, 2007 at 7:23 am
I vote for Onkosh. It is the best. The “bel3araby” feature is extremely helpful and the keyboard is a brilliant idea. Moreover, it is the most comprehensive search engine as it includes blog search, forums, files, pictures, videos and more…
Finally i would like to send a big THANK YOU to its founders!!
November 17th, 2007 at 7:50 am
maybe i’m just inclined to it becuase i’m Arab, but if u ask me for my vote, I’d say: defnitely Onkosh. It’s young, new and seems to be done very professionally.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
onkosh
November 17th, 2007 at 11:50 am
i vote for onkosh the best arabic search engine and translator
November 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Onkosh is the best Arabic Search engine has ever seen .. You can find whatever u seek and in arabic context … VIVA ONKOSH
November 17th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
tab3an onkosh no 1
i vote for onkosh
November 17th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I vote for Onkosh. It’s really a great revolution.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
1st arabic search engine
November 18th, 2007 at 2:50 am
i vote for ONKOSH
November 18th, 2007 at 3:59 am
I vote for onkosh. It understands Arabic as we use these days on the net.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I vote for onkosh
November 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
No to Exalead, because Google is more efficient for me.
No to Dialogus.ru & Onkosh, because I prefer to search in English and Google is more efficient for me.
No to Aftervote, because Google is more efficient for me.
No to Kartoo, Quintura, and Kooltorch are all innovative, but not my cup of tea.
No to Omgili, because Google is more efficient for me.
No to Goshme, interesting because its a database of databases of databases, but Google is still more efficient for me.
Yes to Answers.com, the winner because I actually do use it outside of Google.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
definitly, Google is the best in Arabic search and all the new rabic search portals in the market are only seeking traffic
i vote for answers.com
November 18th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Hi,
I vote for exalead.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Hi,
I vote for Onkosh, because the techniques used in it allow the user to have very enhanced Arabic searches that are not available in other search engines.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Exalead gets my vote. It’s much quicker to navigate around and the additional options to search on images, Wiki and videos are fab. The extra categories offered also give chance for you to tailor your search to what you actually need. An essential tool for work and home!
November 19th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I have Exalead as my homepage – cracking search engine and easily gets my vote.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:19 am
voting for Onkosh
November 19th, 2007 at 11:01 am
i vote for onkosh the best arabic search engine and translator
November 19th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I vote for onkosh. The Onkosh creators have managed to find a market niche where no other search engine has dared to go. Their user-friendly technology is here to finally give millions of marginalized people access to the WWW!
November 19th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Re,
I’ve already vote for Exalead :p
why ?
I give my vote to Exalead because this Search Engine is a real relevant alternative in France.
Moreover its developpers are very close and attentive to users.
Furthermore, Exalead has developped a real good project named Baagz.
That’s why I really recommand it :p
November 20th, 2007 at 9:45 am
I vote for Exalead , simple to use , easy to navigate ,wiki and video very useful for kids school projects. Use it for home and work the free desktop of the product saves me useful time every day helpful when your a working mom
November 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I vote for onkosh
November 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am
Je vote pour exalead ! Il est trop bien !
November 24th, 2007 at 4:59 am
i vote for onkosh – it leads to increase of use if internet in arabic world because it really understand arabic user. many feature only in onkosh that make is suitable for us.
November 25th, 2007 at 4:24 am
i vote for ONKOSH
November 25th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
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November 26th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Answers.com! What’s not to love about one site with free information you can find anywhere else on the web (for free)? And now that it’s expanding with the 2nd largest Q&A site (WikiAnswers.com), it’s about to get even better…
November 26th, 2007 at 6:24 am
i vote for Answers.com because to quote from Kaz “I actually do use it outside of Google”
November 26th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Its the only of these options that is an encyclodictionalmanacapedia! But seriously, they really have the most extensive results on the internet.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:27 am
I vote for Answers.com
Very good integration of many content sources and it is free
November 26th, 2007 at 6:28 am
I vote for Answers.com because they have all the answers I’m looking for. Either reference or community based which for some things is only fine by me.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:32 am
Answers.com – for the 1-click interface and information presentation.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:37 am
Is this really even a question!? Answers.com surpasses all other engines of all types because it actually serves up ANSWERS. Isn’t that what we’re all looking for!?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Answers.com, because it has everything!!!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:40 am
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November 26th, 2007 at 6:42 am
…that was about answers.com obviously
November 26th, 2007 at 6:43 am
i love answers.com it always has the answers to my questions. whether it’s who invented the light bulb, or how many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb. it never lets you down. that’s why i’m voting for it as search engine of the year.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:44 am
It has to be answers.com!! Who even heard of any of the others? And do any of them have the word of the day widget for facebook? I think not!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:50 am
i vote for answers.com. It’s the best place to get trustworthy information. Unlike wiki you know that what you see at answers.com is information verified by PhD educated employees
November 26th, 2007 at 7:17 am
search engines in general are great. they take your mind of the unimportant things so you can focus on the big picture. like when you need to fight the evil orc king and save middle earth you don’t want to have to spend a lot of time to find information. that’s where search engines come in. I saw all of them are winners, because without them the orc king and his ant people army would destroy the earth.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Definitely Answers.com. It has never failed to give me the answer I’m looking for!
November 26th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Answers.com — the 1-click technology alone puts it head and shoulders above the others (whoever they are). CBS News and NYT agree that the technology kicks butt — it’s on their web sites.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
AfterVote returns the highest quality results of all of the options listed.
Gets my vote with Answers.com as my second place.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
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November 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Onkosh is the best Arabic search offering a wide array of Arabic search techniques like web search, blogs, images and Bel-3araby search enabling. defiantly Onkosh
November 26th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
OnkOoOosH !!! unique.. being the 1st reliable arabic engine…simple to use… in fact i am fascinated with that little keyboard
November 26th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Searching in arabic?
Can’t find reliable arabic search engine?
your arabic is bad?
ONKOSH is your only solution!
November 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Answers.com is awesome for when you are watching a movie and want to know who that actor is… Or you hear a song and you need to know when it was released…
November 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Onkosh is an invention and a step that has to be celebrated and given credit.
It’s intresting how one can find a great deal of different services all in one. The inventors made sure their audiences are well served on both levels: entertainment and information.
It is original whether the Family filter , Spellchecker (for the first time in the Arabic search),the news service , the Blogs, Directory, or the Images.
As an Egyptian i am honored to have such a credible…unique place to reside to and be able to communicate in simple and professional Arabic…
November 26th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Hands down, Answers.com is the best. Results are spot on accurate and you never need to venture to another site to find what you are looking for. Answers come in the form of reference content and also human-edited answers with their really unique WikiAnswers property. Okay… I’m a fan! Forget the rest, go for the best! Answers.com!
November 26th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Answers.com is by far the best. I like being able to check articles on Wikipedia for accuracy using hundreds of quality reference sources. Plus I am getting information when I search not links to who knows where!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
onkosh!!!
Try it then you will know the reason !!
November 26th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
user friendly
informative
November 26th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Answers.com definitely. It is the triple play of reference: licensed material from authoritative sources, user-generated answers to questions, and artificial intelligence technology scouring the web for answers. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t look up information on it!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Answers.com obviously! The world’s only encyclodictionalmanacapedia! And now they are also WikiAnswers.com – the world only wiki-Q&A.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:33 am
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November 27th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Answers.com! Been using it for years. Fast, efficient, to the point, accurate.
November 27th, 2007 at 4:37 am
Of course I would vote for Onkosh, for being the smartest and most useful Arabic search engine out there.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am
I vote for answers.com because they use sources not found anywhere else on the web.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:18 am
I don’t know how you can compare Arabic, Russian and English language sites, but of the ones I understand, there’s no question that Answers.com is the best altsearchengine around. Sure, when I’m just looking for links, I still use the biggies (usu. Google and Yahoo), but when I want REAL INFORMATION, there’s nothing like Answers.com. The combination of Wikipedia with “real” sources like Britannica, Oxford, Houghton Mifflin, etc. means I can always find what I’m looking for, AND TRUST IT. My kids are hooked on it for their homework, and their teachers ask me how they know so much!
November 27th, 2007 at 10:02 am
I vote for Answers.com. That is the one site I can count on to find out about anything. They have the best information bar none. When I use traditional search engines after I do my search I have to search through each link to see which ones have the info I am looking for. When I do a search on Answers.com I just get the information. In this age of information overload this is really the best site to go to if you just want to find the Answers. It is excellent!
November 27th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Onkosh… It’s faster
November 28th, 2007 at 1:52 am
A Great Engine for the Arabc users…Thanks for the Minds who created it
November 28th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Out of the sites listed Answers is by far the best Alt search engine. Since they have started integrating WikiAnswers into their normal results there is very little that can not be found.
Best part is it contains Wikipedia alongside other truly reputable sources so you can fact check a Wikipedia entry on the same page.
November 28th, 2007 at 3:05 am
Onkooooooooooooooosh is the best !!!!
November 28th, 2007 at 3:22 am
ONKOSH is by far the best search engine for the middle easterns!
November 28th, 2007 at 3:47 am
I Vote For Onkosh
November 28th, 2007 at 6:20 am
i vote for onkosh
November 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Answers.com. You don’t have to follow links, you get information right there from Oxford, Britannica, Wikipedia and others all on one page optimized for the word or name you searched for.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:49 am
I believe the fact that we can actually use slang / spoken Arabic using either Arabic letters or latin ones (like what we are used to do for chatting and sms for instance) is really worth voting for. For Arabic language content search, Onkosh is by far the one worth voting for.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Onkonsh is the best …
November 29th, 2007 at 5:29 am
My vote goes to Onkosh !
it’s the first of its kind … and the only one that serves the needs of arabic speaking users around the world !
November 29th, 2007 at 6:15 am
VOTE 4 ONKOSH..
November 29th, 2007 at 6:36 am
I vote for http://www.tfd.com
November 29th, 2007 at 7:08 am
I vote for Onkosh. Onkosh is definitely the most comprehensively superior and is the first to introduce proper arabic searching. The rest of the search engines do not appeal to me with their enhancements. None of them offer proper fully-fledged searching of the internet like Onkosh does.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Outside of Google, Answers is also the only other reference/search site I use…
November 29th, 2007 at 9:45 am
The answer is only one click away. Answers and information are delivered quickly.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I vote for Google.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Onkosh is ze bestest onkosh.com !
November 29th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
onkosh is good because it has a large database for arabic websites… it is easy to use… has cool features.. and is very user friendly
November 29th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Answers.com & WikiAnswers; not quite a search engine, but the best place to get ANY question answered.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Exalead, by far the most advanced search tool, lean interface and good coverage.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
onkosh
November 30th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Quintura is the best. Quintura search widget is perfect. You can see may blog – it is fast! Realy web 2.0
December 1st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
My vote goes to AfterVote. It basically combines Yahoo, Google and MSN into one engine.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:15 pm
omigly is the one and only search engine – that we need.
once you’ll try it – you never stop!
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 am
i vote for Onkosh.com
December 4th, 2007 at 2:56 am
I VOTE 4 ONKOSH..
December 6th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Answers.com is by far the best search engine I have used. Answers.com provides relevant information much quicker than any other search engine out there. All you get with answers.com is relevant, straightforward content packed with information.
December 6th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
All you need to know about ANYTHING all in one place! Chock full of information and easy to navigate!
December 7th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
I vote for Exalead!
December 7th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I vote for Exalead !
December 15th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Answers.com is the best!
December 17th, 2007 at 7:43 am
if you like Exalead, you will like tayait.com definitely
tayait.com has different arabic search concept, just try it …
December 27th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Frankly i see that tayait.com has a wonderful functionalities and relative results more than onkosh especially as it is better in understanding and dealing with arabic content
one of the features i like most on tayait.com are the refine search, it really narrows our search and this feature is not included in other arabic search engines,even google.
Another one is the great way to merge directory search with text search,for example its possible to search for websites that talks about economy in middle east websites
its interface is better than onkosh for me, being able to see result thumbnails saves a lot of time for me
Tayait.com had a very good advanced search that could narrow your search dramatically with little customization
Really i love it,…
January 29th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Exalead replaces Google Search – just as well as Lavabit[.com] replaces Google Mail!
Others can’t be used instead of Google.
P. S. I am performing an experiment of living totally without usage of Google. For 100 days only (for the first time).
March 31st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Who ended up taking it?
April 4th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Exalead of course; A performant search engine that make our search easier tanks to the ‘zapette’; the ‘zapette’ allow you to filter quickly the results.
Try it !
July 7th, 2008 at 6:51 am
GOOGLE is the BEST!do you know GOOGLE own YOUTUBE?