Spain is a country located in the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe. The country is known for its dance – Flamenco – and its food – paella. It’s the second most visited country in the world and has a population of 45 million people – 17 million connected to the Internet. Besides that, Spain has lots of search engines and Web 2.0 start-ups.

Let’s take a look at some of them:


Minube is a flight and hotel search engine. It’s cool and has a very web 2.0 design. The website has some good features like flight alerts, in which the user can receive alerts by email if minube finds a cheaper flight according to the user’s preferences. Minube also has a community, where people can upload videos and pictures of their trips and give tips of the places that they visited.

Kratia is a search engine like Google.  The difference is that the user can vote on the results, so the most voted results will be considered the best results and will be shown in the first positions. The user can also comment on the results. The deal is to give to the user the best results and eliminate the useless webpages or the spam ones.

nuroa is a real estate search engine launched in October 2007. It has the most number of ads of the Spanish online real estate market – 1 million. Besides ads, nuroa gives to the user pictures, news and information related to her search. The company is based in Barcelona and was founded by Oriol Blasco a Catalan entrepreneur and Gary Stewart an American entrepreneur.

Agregax is the Spanish Technorati, a blog search engine. It has aggregated more than 7,000 blogs and more than a 1 million posts. It has a very clean interface and it’s very easy to navigate. The company was founded by Paul Iglesias in April 2006.

Trovit was the search engine of the day here in Alt Search Engines. The project started in Spain and today is present in Italy, Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom.



Laburo is a job search engine still in beta version. It has around 250,000 job offers from newspaper and jobs portals. The personalization is outstanding– the user can edit the home page, with whichever websites he wants to search on.

Shoomo is a shopping search engine. It has more than 600,000 products searched on over 100 websites. The good thing about shoomo is the sense of ommunity – the user can create his profile, save favourite products, vote for the products, make comments and help other users with their surveys. The users who make more comments are known as “leaders” in the shoomo community.

Cunoticias is a news search engine. The user can search for local news amongst the Spanish provinces or search for thematic news such as Sports and Technology.

This article was written by Victor Aloi, and this is his blog.  If you want to know more about the Spanish alternative search engines or the Spanish web 2.0 projects, you can go to www.loogic.com.