AltSearchEngines is closed. TheNextWeb is my new blog.

March 10th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Here is the post that started it all The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines for January 2007

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And here is the blog that published “The Most Wonderful Search Engines You’ve Never Seen”

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Here is where I will be writing about All Things Search starting on February 1st, 2010.

Searchzooka – A long tour of features

January 30th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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Watch this movie! The Cultural Search Engine

January 20th, 2010 by Charles S. Knight
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SweetSearch – A Search Engine for Students

January 14th, 2010 by Steffen Schilke
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SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students.

Most search engines search billions of Web sites and return tens of millions of results; some are from reliable Web sites, some are not.  SweetSearch searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by a staff of Internet research experts at Dulcinea Media, and its librarian and teacher consultants.

SweetSearch excludes results from the unreliable sites that rank high in other search engines, and waste your time.  It lets  students choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, rather than having them waste time on unreliable sites.

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

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Who knew? Salon.com explores the mystique and the reality of absinthe, the drink that was banned in the United States in 1912 but is now legal again. …
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong.
Banned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again.
So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.

Source: SweetSearch.com is owned and operated by Dulcinea Media.

Wallpaper search engine Wallbase.net

January 14th, 2010 by Steffen Schilke
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wallbaseWallbase.net can simply be described as a searchable wallpaper database, and it strives to be little more than that. It is powered by an image+metadata scraper which pulls images from 4chan’s /w/, /wg/ and /hr/. Script then takes the raw parsed data (post title, img title, text), does some processing on the images, and indexes everything in a MySQL database.

Additionally, some wallpapers are tagged as NSFW which means they are not suitable for work/school or in any enviornment which doesn’t allow adult-only materials.

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The main rule for this website is to keep the images on a certain level of quality. I mean, I don’t allow any child pornography, desktops, hightly offensive etc. wallpapers on wallbase.net, but if you spot any disturbing images, please report them to Yotoon. Thanks!

Oh, and some of the description is originally from 4scrape (the best wallpaper website of its time). If you have any questions or concerns regarding this service, feel free to use the comments section.

The main person behind all of this is Yotoon! – I designed, managed and coded basically everything you see here (except some parts of the scraper program, which is taken from the old 4scrape’s website).

Have fun!