For a very long time, Google has been my primary search site/engine. The other day, however, I stumbled upon a few alternatives.

Cuil is a nice search site which encapsulates some semantic information. for instance, when you search for “Apache” then it will come up with hits distributed by category like “Software”, “Tribe”, or “Helicopter”. That’s quite useful and more accurate than Google’s hit list.

The other site I’d like to mention is SearchMe which is very fast. Results are presented a previews. That is, instead of clicking a link and going to the site, you can just browse WebSites more or less in CoverFlow. And the hits are also very accurate.