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Brand New Search Engine Choices that Promise to Change the Way you Experience the Internet

Computer scientists pretty much know by now that if you create that one new search engine algorithm that is able to make more sense of search than anyone else's algorithm, that your fortune is practically made. And there are new search engines out all the time and significant improvements made to established search engines every day.

Consider the saucily-named Quiki - a new search engine that tries to make your searches more meaningful to you not by introducing any shattering new search algorithms, but by presenting your search results in a way you've never seen before - in a way that is visually stunning and full of all kinds of media. Quiki doesn't just give you a boring list of results and lots of text. Instead, the search engine goes everywhere, to websites like Fotopedia, Wikipedia, Google, and YouTube for quite a spread of videos, pictures and narrated text. Every item in your search results page shows you how the search engine believes that it is related to your search term. A rather new convenience presented here is, the ability to share everything. Quiki even tries to poll you for your thoughts on a set of search results. When the user feels the that a search results page isn't as accurate or as relevant as it should be, she can easily call up and improve the page, or she can contribute her own ideas for the kind of results she should have been given. She can even contribute pictures, videos or try to help with a better text-to-speech recording.

Aardvark is a new search engine (whose website goes by the name Vark) that tries to capitalize on social search. What that means is, that it tries to get searchers the answers they want by trying to hook them up with people who have answers. There's nothing automatic about it - it's just people answering questions . Of course, this isn't a new idea. There have been all kinds of existing attempts at this - like Yahoo Answers and Mahalo. The aim of the new attempt at the idea is to try to take advantage of how ready people now are to be socially connected. Of course, if you could just put a question out there and expect answers, that would be too easy. To begin with, there will be way too many answers to sift through. Aardvark's contribution there would be to pose the question only to the people that it believes might have the right answer. Of course, there is no instant gratification. Answers can take several minutes to hours. But it's an attempt that could turn out to be worthwhile.

Google isn't sitting still waiting for some new search engine to take over the world. Consider a recent improvement on Google - called the "related" operator. Let's say that you have a certain kind of webpage that you find useful. It seems to have several articles on popular medicine, a few health-related articles to do with women's health, but none of the stuff presented on the website is particularly serious. It's kind of in the Reader's Digest style. Luckily for you, you've discovered just such a website. What you want to know is, if there are more such websites out there. How do you describe such a concept to Google? That's where you use the related operator. All you do is to put down the name of the website in the Google search box, and prefix it with a Related: operator.