||| VuHelp4U ||| 26 specialist (and super smart) search engines

Google is wide­ly (and right­ly) recog­nised as the moth­er of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your search­es by more spe­cif­ic details, do you trust Google to give you what you need every sin­gle time?

Here's a col­lec­tion of 3o ver­ti­cal search engines which you should have up your sleeve when you need some spe­cial­ist power.

Flights / Trav­el

1. SkyScanner.net – The lead­ing flights search engine, pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion about all car­ri­ers to help you find the best deal.

2. Momondo.com – Very sim­i­lar to Sky­Scan­ner and with an added 'cur­rent search­es' wid­get to see what flights other peo­ple are search­ing for. (Par­tic­u­lar­ly handy in Europe!)

3. Hip­munk - The San Francisco-based start­up that's swift­ly rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing trip-planning for savvy trav­el­ers with flights, trains and hotel search.

Blogs

4. IceRocket.com – Search­es for con­tent from blogs, Twit­ter, Face­book and more.

5. BlogPulse.com – Blog-specific search engine search­ing through more than 170 mil­lion blogs.

6. eBuzzing Labs - The top blogs sec­tion is a great place to start a topic-specific blogs and con­tent.

Images

7. TinEye.com – a reverse image search engine – this finds out where an image came from, how it's being used and where you can find the best res­o­lu­tion ver­sion.

8. PicSearch.com – Search­es through more than 3 bil­lion online pho­tos.

 

Peo­ple

9. Pipl.com – Search for peo­ple all over the world from a sim­ple inter­face. 
10. 123people.com – Aggre­gates pub­lic infor­ma­tion from a num­ber of sources to give a spread of person-specific infor­ma­tion.

Forums

11. BoardReader.com – The best free dis­cus­sion board and forum search tool out there.

Audio and Video

12. PodScope.com – The web's lead­ing pod­cast search direc­to­ry. 
13. Blinkx.com – Search over 35 mil­lion hours of video.

Resources

14. SlideFinder.net -Instead of start­ing a new pre­sen­ta­tion slide from scratch, see if the one you need is here. 
15. FileDigg.com – Search for files by type e.g. .ppt and .pdf etc.

Domain names

16. Panabee.com – A great way to search for web­site domain names and gen­er­ate names if you are strug­gling for ideas.
17. NameNinja.com – Anoth­er brain­storm­ing tool to dis­cov­er domain names.

Icons

18. Iconfinder.com – Great for find­ing dif­fer­ent file ver­sions e.g. .png and .ico. 
19. Iconseeker.com – A stan­dard icon search engine. 
20. IconArchive.com – One of the most com­pre­hen­sive icon search engines on the web, includes real­ly use­ful sub-category search.

Pri­vate search

21. DuckDuckGo.com – This engine allows you to search for sites with­out bring tracked at the other end.

Sim­i­lar web­sites

22. SimilarSites.com – Search for sites sim­i­lar to the ones you love in a sim­ple way.

All-rounders

23. Blekko.com – Uses 'slash­tag­ging' to nar­row down your results. 
24. KeoTag.com – Tag search mul­ti­ple search engines for the lat­est con­tent. 
25. Scour.com – A social search com­mu­ni­ty. 
26. Greplin.com – Anoth­er social search engine with desk­top capa­bil­i­ty.

While some of these are bet­ter alter­na­tives to Google and the other major engines, for the most part, the big boys do it incred­i­bly (incred­i­bly, incred­i­bly) well.

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