---
title: "Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines"
date: 2007-03-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines

While the [serious talk](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.techmeme.com/070309/p14#a070309p14) today is about [Freebase](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html), a new next-gen search engine from Danny Hillis, it’s the end of the week and so time for a bit of fun. Author of the popular [Top Alternative Search Engines](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines_feb07.php) list, Charles Knight, flicked me an email this morning with an example of a weird alt search engine that he’d discovered: [www.ufocrawler.com/search](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.ufocrawler.com/search).

That got us to thinking about what *other* ‘weird’ search engines are **Out There**. Below is a short list that Charles came up with (his knowledge of alt search engines knows no bounds!). But we’d like to throw this open to you, the readers, as a kind of Friday or weekend survey. Please let us know in the comments about the weirdest alt search engines you’ve come across!

- [www.GhetoSearch.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.GhetoSearch.com/)
- [www.omnipelagos.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.omnipelagos.com/)
- [www.wabbadabba.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.wabbadabba.com/)
- [www.pupna.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.pupna.com/)
- [WWW.BIG.COM](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.BIG.COM/)
- [www.KoolTorch.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.KoolTorch.com/)
- [www.MeetSpouse.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.MeetSpouse.com/)
- [www.cranky.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.cranky.com/)
- [www.nayio.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.nayio.com/)
- [www.GahooYoogle.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.GahooYoogle.com/)
- [www.searchbots.net](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.searchbots.net/)
- [www.portbooker.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110819213941/http://www.portbooker.com/)

Add your suggestions below…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/weird_search_engines.php))*