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Six Ways to Make Your Own Search Engine
If you're looking for more search engine customization, then building your own search engine is something you'll want to look into. Here are six different services that offer you the ability to personalize your own seaarch engine, customized to your unique preferences.

Top Ten Niche Search Engines
There are literally hundreds of really great niche search engines on the Internet that focus on specific topics: images, jobs, blogs, etc. Here are my picks for the top ten alternative search engines out there on the Web.

Quintura
Here's my impression of Quintura, a tag cloud search engine.

AOL Search Records and User Privacy
The AOL search records debacle released over 500K private search records on the Web in the name of research. These records were almost instantly taken down again, but not before many mirror sites got a hold of them. Now, what are the lessons we've learned from the AOL search records fiasco? Here are a few I've come up with.

How To Find The Best Search Engines on the Web
Pick the best search engines for your searching needs with Search Engines 101, a great way to explore more of your search topic, try a new search engine, and search more of the Web.

100 Search Engines in 100 Days
Most Internet search engines have their own unique logos. Here are all the search engine logos covered in the About Web Search 100 Search Engines in 100 Days mega-feature.

100 Search Engines in 100 Days - Table of Contents
This table of contents contains all the Internet search engines profiled in the 100 Search Engines in 100 Days feature.

Oodle.com, a Free Classified Ads Search Engine
Oodle is a search engine dedicated solely to scouring the Web for classified ads - auto classifieds, pet classifieds, loofah classifieds (it could happen), from 76 different metro areas and 197 colleges at the time of this writing. It's easy to use, and results are relevant and plentiful.

Droogle - a Drink Recipe Search Engine
Droogle is a drink recipe search engine - yes, that's right; all Droogle focuses on are alcoholic drink recipes, mixed drink recipes, holiday drinks, and a ton more fun drink recipe stuff. It's a great way to look up drink recipes quickly and easily.

Crime and Law Enforcement Search Engines
Find crime statistics, crime scene investigation information, police information and more with these Crime and Law Enforcement Search Engines.

Find Message Boards with BoardTracker
BoardTracker is a search engine dedicated to only sifting through forums and online message boards. It's a highly targeted search engine and brought back relatively good results.

Top Five Medical Search Engines-Find Medical Information on the Web
There are a lot more than these five medical search engines out there; however, I've found these ones to be some of the most useful medical search engines that I've come across. Use these medical search engines to find answers to your medical questions, get more information about various health topics, or just to learn about something new.

A Look at Niche Search Engines
Take a survey of some of the most interesting niche search engines on the Web.

Top Ten Book Search Engines-Find A Book Online
Whether you're looking for a rare book, a used book, an audio book, or a comic book, chances are you can find it on the Web using one of these excellent book search engines.

Codase - A Source Code Search Engine - Find Source Code with Codase
Codase is an extremely targeted search engine- it only searches and indexes source code. This is a developer's search engine, for sure.

Healthline.com - A Medical Search Engine-Find Medical Information
Healthline.com is a medical information search engine. Healthline is solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and it offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel. It's really an excellent tool for finding all kinds of medical information.

BrainBoost-A Question Answering Search Engine
Find answers, not just search results, with BrainBoost. You can ask this unique search engine any question you want and it will retrieve answers for you (with related questions). Read my review of BrainBoost and see why it's now one of my favorite Web destinations.

Swicki Tutorial-Make Your Own Swicki
Make your very own search engine and place it on your site or blog with Eurekster's Swicki, a "new kind of search engine that allows anyone to create deep, focused searches on topics you care about." Follow my step by step screenshot tutorial as I place a Swicki search engine on a website.

Create Your Own Internet Search Engine with Eurekster Swicki
Make your own search engine for your site or blog with Eurekster Swicki. You are in charge of the search results, the search terms, and how the search engine looks. Find out what a Swicki is and see if it's something you might want to place on your own website or blog.

Make Your Map Search Easy With The Map Machine
Make your map search simple with National Geographic's Map Machine, a dedicated map search engine that searches only National Geographic's sizable database of maps: city maps, world maps, road maps, weather maps, United States maps, and much more.

Learn More About Gigablast
Here's my profile of Gigablast, a search engine with some interesting features, good advanced search power, and an excellent user experience.

FoodieView, a Free Recipe Search Engine
FoodieView is now one of my "must have" sites on the Web. Searchers can find all kinds of recipes on here from a multitude of different recipe sites, including Food Network, Wolfgang Puck, AllRecipes.com, Martha Stewart, and more.

A to Z Search Engines and Directories
Search engine and directory news, information, commentary, opinions, profiles, howto's, and analyses.

Search Engine Knowledge Quiz
Test your knowledge of search engines and how they can help you search with this search engine quiz.

Do Search Engines Search The Entire Web?
While search engines can search portions of the Web, and even have large parts of it indexed, are they really able to search the entire Web?

What is a Search Engine - How Do Search Engines Work
Search engines are tools that you can use to search on the Web. Learn the basics of how search engines work to bring you search results.

Travel Search Engines - A Peek Behind the Curtain
If you've ever tried to find a last minute travel deal, secure a good deal for your upcoming vacation, or create a combined air-hotel-car business package, then chances are you've used a search engine dedicated to anything travel. Phil Carpenter, VP of Corporate Marketing with travel search engine Sidestep, gives us an inside look into the travel search engine world.