Alternative Search Engines

There are many, many more alternative search engines than you may think. Each month, Alt Search Engines, publishes its list of the top 100 alternative engines. Many of these are very specialized. They are in a variety of languages. They include a wide array of technologies.

I have chosen the ones that are representative of the range of alternatives available and seem most useful to a broad spectrum of users (including me) and linked them below with brief descriptions.