Tag Archives: Alternative Search

Making the case for maintaining a clear distinction between traditional search engines and generative AI tools masquerading as search tools.

DuckDuckGo finds itself again dealing with the fallout of Bing being Bing.

The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).

Making the case for whitelisting Seznam and other good crawlers from independent index search engines.

A referrer URL for Norton Safe Search sparked my curiosity about where this search engine was getting its results. Thus began a long investigation of Norton and Ask, two search tools I don’t use.

Searching lite and wondering where that Qwant Lite link leads…

On the importance of Bing’s search engine index in light of all of the third-party search engines that rely upon it – most notably DuckDuckGo.

Replace your timer app: A detailed guide to creating easy-to-use shortcuts to the DuckDuckGo and Brave Search Timers.

If you ever thought to yourself “I wish there was an easy way to read The New Leaf Journal in Korean”…

My very short (but arguably successful) reign as a Naver Webmaster.

To be clear, FrogFind is a search engine for USE ON vintage computers.

The search engine with the endearing mascot and unique way of showing results.