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The big daddy of search engines, Google, crawls and indexes much of the publicly available content on the World Wide Web. Google also has some competition in the form of Bing. But then Google, in its default avatar, doesn't necessarily serve all of the Internet user's search varied needs (neither does Bing). To fill in the void, there are a number of search engines tailored for specific purposes. Here are the top 10.
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From its appearance Guruji.com seems to be a Google-like full-fledged search engine, but its strength lies elsewhere.
While Guruji.com's USP might have led to legal wrangles, the music search works wonderfully well. The search service can locate songs (complete with relevant MP3 files) by song, title, movie or singer keywords and indexes music in at least six Indian languages.
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Traffic driven by torrents hog a huge amount of bandwidth on the Internet and one of the best BitTorrent search engines around is isoHunt. isoHunt tracks the major BitTorrent websites to keep its index updated.
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One of the most reliable Q&A websites around, Answers.com has been answering questions since 2005. Available in a number of languages Answers.com is also one of the most popular websites in the world.
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Wolfram|Alpha long-term goal is "to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone." The website is doing a good job of what it has set out to do, provide instantaneous answers.
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Empora brings together thousands of stores and brands under one search engine and lets users find items that suit their personal style the best.
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Looks like that even Google likes Like.com. Reports are floating around about Google acquiring the "first true visual image search" platform.
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While we are used to searching images by entering a text query, how about uploading an image as a search 'keyword' and find results similar to the image you uploaded? That's precisely what Hitachi's GazoPa does. Users can also insert an image URL, draw an image or insert text keywords to display search results.
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If you are looking for people, Google is not always the best option. Pipl does it better, it only searches for people. You can get more focused on your egosurfing trip with Pipl.com.
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One thing that people who love to cook search for the most is recipes and Yummly is a site focuses on recipe search. That's not all, you can also search within 424,000 recipes by their calorie and nutritional count, tastes, courses and more.
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While experts advice against Internet-aided self medication, it is always beneficial to know more about a disease or symptom. NetBase's HealthBase search indexes trustworthy sources for health-related content and displays results on treatments, conditions and complications of health conditions as well as the pros and cons of drugs, foods, chemicals and treatments.
