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  <body-formatted>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m aware that a few of them actually use Google&#8217;s data for results, but if you can&#8217;t access Google&#8217;s homepage directly, then they&#8217;re likely to be reasonably good alternatives. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add any others I may have missed, such as &lt;a href="http://www.dogpile.com/"&gt;Dogpile&lt;/a&gt;, into the comments at the bottom&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s shiny new Live Search and the subject of much debate as to whether or not Google can be dethroned.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boogami.com/"&gt;Boogami&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; The Beta search engine that apparently &#8220;delivers exact results&#8221;. Check out the &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/594-alex-tew-launches-million-dollar-homepage-2"&gt;Million Dollar Homepage&lt;/a&gt; influence that&#8217;s happening there.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chacha.com/"&gt;Cha Cha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; The web and mobile search engine. Text your search query and wait for the results via SMS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cuil.com/"&gt;Cuil&lt;/a&gt;&#160;-&lt;/strong&gt;&#160;The failed &#8220;Google Killer,&#8221; but the search results are fairly accurate and the interface easy to use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://duckduckgo.com/"&gt;Duck Duck Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Crispy interface which allows you to filter your results into different channels, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hunch.com/"&gt;Hunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Ok, so not strictly a search engine, but the new decision-making engine has been causing a stir over the past couple of days. &#160;Pretty neat idea.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powerset.com/"&gt;Powerset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Searches Wikipedia articles to answer your query. Reliability of results may need to be questioned...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sperse.com/"&gt;Sperse!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; All search query results are generally accompanied by a small screenshot of the landing page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spezify.com/"&gt;Spezify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Aggregates different channels into an awesome collage when you search.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.viewzi.com"&gt;Viewzi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &#8211; Displays search results in &#8220;tiles&#8221; and allows a powerful amount of interaction, including filtering and rating.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;</body-formatted>
  <body-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m aware that a few of them actually use Google&amp;rsquo;s data for results, but if you can&amp;rsquo;t access Google&amp;rsquo;s homepage directly, then they&amp;rsquo;re likely to be reasonably good alternatives. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add any others I may have missed, such as &lt;a href="http://www.dogpile.com/"&gt;Dogpile&lt;/a&gt;, into the comments at the bottom&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s shiny new Live Search and the subject of much debate as to whether or not Google can be dethroned.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boogami.com/"&gt;Boogami&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; The Beta search engine that apparently &amp;ldquo;delivers exact results&amp;rdquo;. Check out the &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/594-alex-tew-launches-million-dollar-homepage-2"&gt;Million Dollar Homepage&lt;/a&gt; influence that&amp;rsquo;s happening there.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chacha.com/"&gt;Cha Cha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; The web and mobile search engine. Text your search query and wait for the results via SMS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cuil.com/"&gt;Cuil&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The failed &amp;ldquo;Google Killer,&amp;rdquo; but the search results are fairly accurate and the interface easy to use.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://duckduckgo.com/"&gt;Duck Duck Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Crispy interface which allows you to filter your results into different channels, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hunch.com/"&gt;Hunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Ok, so not strictly a search engine, but the new decision-making engine has been causing a stir over the past couple of days. &amp;nbsp;Pretty neat idea.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.powerset.com/"&gt;Powerset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Searches Wikipedia articles to answer your query. Reliability of results may need to be questioned...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sperse.com/"&gt;Sperse!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; All search query results are generally accompanied by a small screenshot of the landing page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spezify.com/"&gt;Spezify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Aggregates different channels into an awesome collage when you search.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.viewzi.com"&gt;Viewzi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; Displays search results in &amp;ldquo;tiles&amp;rdquo; and allows a powerful amount of interaction, including filtering and rating.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</body-unformatted>
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  <extract-formatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did anyone notice &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23googlefail"&gt;Google crashed&lt;/a&gt; for a few minutes yesterday? &#160;More to the point, if you experienced it, did you just throw up your hands in despair and wander off to make a cup of tea, or did you use another search engine to find what you were looking for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This highlights the issue that&#8217;s being hotly debated within search teams across the UK, if not the world: &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2681-can-anyone-compete-with-google"&gt;Can anyone challenge Google?&lt;/a&gt; Although that in itself is a different blog-post, I&#8217;ve quickly thrown together a list of some nifty alternatives to the search engine giant.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;</extract-formatted>
  <extract-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did anyone notice &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23googlefail"&gt;Google crashed&lt;/a&gt; for a few minutes yesterday? &amp;nbsp;More to the point, if you experienced it, did you just throw up your hands in despair and wander off to make a cup of tea, or did you use another search engine to find what you were looking for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This highlights the issue that&amp;rsquo;s being hotly debated within search teams across the UK, if not the world: &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2681-can-anyone-compete-with-google"&gt;Can anyone challenge Google?&lt;/a&gt; Although that in itself is a different blog-post, I&amp;rsquo;ve quickly thrown together a list of some nifty alternatives to the search engine giant.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</extract-unformatted>
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  <learn-more-formatted>&lt;p&gt;Econsultancy has published an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-seo-best-practice-guide"&gt;SEO Best Practice Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a comprehensive report about search engine optimization written by Dr Dave Chaffey which has been described as the 'SEO Bible'. We have also published a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/sem-search-engine-optimisation-seo-business-case"&gt;business case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for SEO and a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/sem-seo-request-for-proposal-rfp"&gt;Request for Proposal template file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for those looking to hire an SEO agency.&lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-formatted>
  <learn-more-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;Econsultancy has published an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-seo-best-practice-guide"&gt;SEO Best Practice Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a comprehensive report about search engine optimization written by Dr Dave Chaffey which has been described as the 'SEO Bible'. We have also published a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/sem-search-engine-optimisation-seo-business-case"&gt;business case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for SEO and a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/sem-seo-request-for-proposal-rfp"&gt;Request for Proposal template file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for those looking to hire an SEO agency.&lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-unformatted>
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