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Picsearch, a Sweden-based company, provides image search services for larger websites as well as their own search engine portal.

More information about them, from the website:

Picsearch image search technology has three main features that make it unique. It has a relevancy unrivalled on the web due to its patent-pending indexing algorithms. Also, Picsearch has a family friendliness that allows children to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out by our advanced filtering systems.

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Naver is a popular South Korean search portal that trumps for Google in the country. They also have launched in Japan with less success.

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Infoseek is a Japanese search engine and portal. It's a bit like Yahoo!, but for Japan.

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Il Trovatore is an Italian search engine, or as they say, "motore di ricerca Italiano" ... I like that! Anyway, it's actually more of a web index along the lines of what Yahoo! used to be before they switched to Bing to handle their search. Of questionable value for Italians and otherwise...probably worth a pass.

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Euroseek is a Europe-centered search portal and web directory focusing primarily on Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. No pop-under ads and a image search features.

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Euroseek prides itself on having the most comprehensive repositories of data on the planet. Through partnerships with firms such as Picsearch, our search engine has continued to enhance its approach to organizing data. We are now, and we always will be, the fastest and largest pan-European search engine around.

erm, not sure about these guys, but guessing they make a living from a pay for inclusion scheme.

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Cydral is a visual imagery search engine that browses images by text (content and keywords), similar topic relationships and reverse image search service.

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Yippy, is a metasearch engine that groups results into link collections to the left, clouds as they say on their site, "Welcome to the Cloud". Apparently this assists you in drilling down for more specific information based on keywords.

More information about them, from the website:

What really makes Yippy unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into “clouds.” Clouds help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.

It seems like a decent idea, but it feels a bit heavy.

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Clush is one of those human-edited web directory and search engines.

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Clush, the search engine that allows you to personalize your search results! Our mission is to serve the internet community with the most relevant search data that can be tailored to your personal preference. Clush is the first search engine to introduce the "Links <- - - - 0 - - - -> Content" slider that displays search results according to link popularity or content based webpages.

Members receive a two hour refresh rate on all submissions. One time fee of $19.95 that includes 5 web listings. Mostly a useless SEO tool.

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The Spiffy Search Engine is a very basic search engine. No information is available as to how many sites have been cataloged and it's probably not used that frequently. It appears to only crawl websites that have been manually submitted...ick!

It utilizes the SpiffySearchBot.

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Wolfram|Alpha, billed as the "Computational Knowledge Engine", is a search engine of sorts that, well, they say it better:

fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers — not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.

It's actually a brilliant tool that at this stage is pretty fun to mess around with and provides some interesting results for special queries.

More information about them, from the website:

We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

If you have never tried this out, please do yourself a favor and visit. We can almost guarantee that you will be pleasantly surprised.

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