Like it or hate it, Google gets a little old at times. For those that want to try something different when searching for online information consider trying out these three alternatives to Google.
Dogpile
Dogpile is one of the oldest search engines, predating Google by several years. Opening in 1996 as a pet project of amateur programmer Aaron Flin Dogpile was one of the first meta search engines, a search engine that pulled results from other sources and then regrouped them into something that was more authoritative and useful to the person making the query. At the time search engines were still in their infancy, and not every engine would have the same web sites in their database. Pulling these many different sites together into one compact format results in much larger sets of data to work with and in the end results in the user being much more likely to find the information that they are looking for.
WolframAlpha
When WolframAlpha debuted in May 2009 it was met with mixed emotions. The brainchild of master mathematician Stephan Wolfram, WolframAlpha is actually a computational knowledge engine that is intended to solve complex queries based on data it has already accumulated. Instead of pulling in results from other web sites WolframAlpha creates new information. It is rather difficult to explain but a more complete description of WolframAlpha is available here.
Bing
Perhaps the most likely alternative to Google to come along in recent years is the new Bing search engine by Microsoft. The next iteration of Microsoft's Live Search engine, Bing brings many new features and methods of organizing information and appears to excel at travel and shopping related searches.
