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title: "Top 100 Alt Search Engines, August 2007"
date: 2007-08-01
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2007"
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# Top 100 Alt Search Engines, August 2007

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/altSE_logo.gif)Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has just published [the August Top 100 Alt Search Engine list](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/01/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-august/). Here is [the excel spreadsheet](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/01/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-august/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-august-2007-3/); the full list is on ASE.

This week AltSearchEngines also published a 3 part series defining a) [What is a Search Engine?](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/07/30/what-is-a-search-engine) (an article by Nitin Karandikar), b) [What is Not a Search Engine?](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/07/31/what-is-not-a-search-engine) (by Kaila Colbin) and finally c) [What is an Alternative Search Engine?](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/01/what-is-an-alternative-search-engine) (by ASE editor Charles Knight). The third article by Charles explains more of his motives behind the Top 100 List. He notes the Monthly winners to date: GoshMe, KoolTorch, AfterVote, Quintura, KartOO, dialog.us, and Omgili this month (see below). Charles wrote:

> Some of them did not even exist a year ago. One of my goals is to show my readers the ‘latest and the greatest’? search engine innovations. The motto for the blog \[ASE\], after all, is ‘the most wonderful search engines you’ve never seen,’? and my favorite comment of all is, ‘Wow! I didn’t even know that most of these existed!’?

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1136/977193334_25359cae94_m.jpg)The Search Engine of the Month for August is **[Omgili](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://www.omgili.com/)**, an acronym for “**O**h **M**y **G**od **IL**ove **I**t”! Charles wrote that Omgili represents everything he is trying to emphasize about what makes a good Alternative Search Engine: **a)** It does something that the major search engines don’t – it searches conversations; over 100,000 boards, discussion groups, debates, opinions, forums and much more. To put it simply; you use Omgili to find out what people are saying about your topic.

**b)** It’s innovative and new; it was just established back in December and received seed financing this past April.

**c)** It is a full and complete search engine with its own crawler. But Omgili does not compete with traditional search engines that retrieve articles and web pages – it does one unique function, and it does it very, very well.

Also Omgili is a multilingual search engine; you can perform a search in any language.

Check out the [August Top 100 Alt Search Engine list](https://web.archive.org/web/20111025161745/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/01/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-august/) now on AltSearchEngines.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alt_search_engines_august2007.php))*