Is It Cuil Enough?

Over the last few days, the buzz has been about a new search engine called Cuil. The general feedback on this new competitor to Google is that the look and feel is great, but the results are poor. Mediahatch mentioned that it’s mediocre and the layout is confusing. I tend to agree with the majority that the layout is OK, but the search results don’t compare to Google.

What do you think of Cuil?

http://www.cuil.com/

Search For Good

Want to make a difference in world, but wondering what you could do? Why not try making an Internet search? I stumbled upon a couple of websites that will donate a portion of their profits from your search to a charity of your choice.

Good Search will donate a penny from every search to a charity of your choice. Search Kindly claims they will give 100% of their advertising revenue for charitable purposes. These websites are no way at all as easy to use as Google, but their heart is in the right place.

http://www.goodsearch.com/
http://searchkindly.org/

MSN Gasoline Meter

If you are feeling the gas crunch, this is a pretty sweet tool. Just enter your zip code in the site below, and it tells you which gas stations have the cheapest prices (and the highest) on gasoline in your zip code area. It’s updated every evening.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

ChaCha

ChaCha is a mobile search engine. The website will ask you for a question, search for your answer, and then send it to your mobile phone. If you do a Google a search on your mobile phone, you do not have time to search through a million results. ChaCha saves you time by delivering an accurate message for your unique cellphone.

https://chacha.com/

Spock

Search for yourself on Spock. According to Nielsen, 25% of searches are for names, whether it be a celebrity like Paris Hilton or yourself. Now a the search engine called SPOCK (Single Point of Contact by Keyword) has been built just around names. Spock gets information from mostly social network websites, but it also goes deep into blogs, directories and news sites. A unique feature of the search engine is that you can become part of a community that rates the quality of the matches. Are you on SPOCK?

http://www.spock.com

Organized Wisdom

Recently a bunch of unique search engines have started popping up for niche topics. With so much information on Google, it is difficult to sort through the millions of results. The hope is if you focus on a certain topic, it will be easier to sift through the results. This week we are going to feature a bunch of these unique engines that will provide better, more relevant search results.

If you are in need of looking up information on a certain health issue, check out Organized Wisdom. The site’s content is submitted by users and reviewed by physicians. Yahoo, MSN and Google are not always able to distinguish between good and bad information. Organized Wisdom proclaims that they will save you time because you have a professional guide.

http://www.organizedwisdom.com