Today, I was wondering how I could ever search for something if Google didn’t exist and I asked myself, “How do I look for answers without using Google?”

I certainly wanted to answer my own question really bad so I dug up a few worthy search engines out there that can be my alternative to Google search.

Here are some of my early favorites (in no order):

1) Yahoo!

www.yahoo.com

No introduction is needed for the 3rd largest website in the world.

2) Bing

www.bing.com

Now with over 200 million websites, image/video and local search in their index, they are easily poised to be Google’s next best search engine competitor.

3) Ask

www.ask.com

Ask or ‘Ask Jeeves’ is also a admirable search engine that was founded 2 years before Google. Still providing relevant results to their users.

4) Hakia

www.hakia.com

A semantic search engine that was founded in 2004 to provide a unique experience  to all kind of search queries. Might be something to watch out for in the future.

5) AltaVista

www.altavista.com

Founded 3 years before Google and 1 year before Ask, AltaVista was my first search engine (not that I’m that old). AltaVista is still a favorable search engine alternative for many users and it is the only search engine to be awarded 61 search-related patents, more than any other Internet search company!

6) Cuil

www.cuil.com

Cuil claims to be the world’s biggest search engine and might be a sound alternative if it beats Bing in terms of search relevancy.

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge.

7) Blekko

www.blekko.com

Blekko recently raised $2.5 Million in addition to the previous $11.5 Million. This search engine still has to prove its worth and like many others, we wait till it launches.

I also hope Blekko doesn’t become another Cuil who was overhyped by bloggers to become one big disappointment during its launch.

I hope my list of search engine alternatives didn’t disappoint. If you have a worthy Google alternative, please feel free to chime below.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

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