Five Search Alternatives

http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/03/30/five-search-alternatives.aspx

MapReduce, Chubby and Hadoop

Interesting article from the KM World Magazine:

http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/MapReduce2c-Chubby-and-Hadoop-70841.aspx

Ixquick

Ixquick is a search engine that respects your privacy: it does not deposit a cookie on your machine nor does it capture and save your IP address - unlike Google. Find it @ http://www.ixquick.com/

Deepdyve

Another Search Engine @ http://www.deepdyve.com/

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a "computational knowledge engine," that doesn't search the Web for facts, as Google and most other search engines do.

Instead it mines limited databases and then performs computations on those facts, yielding original data, rather than links to existing Web pages.

Find it @ http://www.wolframalpha.com/

ChaCha

ChaCha is a human-powered search service where a use can text any question to 242242 (ChaCha) and receive a text message answer on their cell phones, usually within 5 minutes.

There is also a voice-based system@ 1-800-2Cha-Cha where one can ask a question and then hang-up. One then gets a text message confirming the question and then, within a few minutes, another text message with the answer.

Example:

Question: What is the current commute time on the Interstate 90 from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago?

Answer: It is slow (20-30 mph) until Edens Kennedy junctions, then it is a parking lot. Take Rand to Northwest HWY, to Elson Ave.

Free IBM-Yahoo Search Software

Please find the free download of the IBM & Yahoo search engine, OmniFind Yahoo Edition, @ omnifind.ibm.yahoo.com.

It has a small footprint and can run on a laptop, has incremental indexing, support for 200+ document types, support for 30 languages and linguistic features such as synonym detection, spelling correction, lemmatization, stemming and a "did you mean" feature that suggests alternative queries. The relevance ranking is adjustable. It does not rely on link analysis, instead it uses OmniFind relevance ranking algorithms.

It is based on the Lucenet open source search engine and is meant to be an entry point to IBM's suite of OmniFind search software which includes security, authentication and a larger document capacity. The expanded OmniFind information access platform includes additional capabilities such as security, analytics, semantic search (OmniFind Enterprise Edition); customer service features such as navigation, natural language queries, more reporting tools (Discovery Edition); better data plus content integration with metadata management and information as a service (Information Server); or a variety of problem- targeting custom applications that include more advanced features (Master Information Solutions).