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title: "Top 100 Alt Search Engines, October 2007"
date: 2007-10-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
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# Top 100 Alt Search Engines, October 2007

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20110529022455im_/http://rww.readwriteweb.netdna-cdn.com/images/altSE_logo.gif)AltSearchEngines has just released its latest [Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list](https://web.archive.org/web/20110529022455/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/10/01/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-october-2007/). ASE tracks over 1,000 “alts” in all, so choosing the top 10% is a pretty big deal.

One trend that ASE editor Charles Knight is beginning to see is that some of the alts are getting larger. Charles noted: “We have always said that there are 4-5 major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and 100 Top ASE. But we may have to revisit that. Some ASE (maybe – blinkx, GigaBlast, Exalead, picsearch, Answers.com, Eurekster, Quintura – this is a new concept) seem to be growing larger than a typical ASE, but are not ‘major’? yet either.”

[Exalead](https://web.archive.org/web/20110529022455/http://www.exalead.com/) was chosen as the Search Engine of the Month for October – it is a Web and image search engine.

Check out the entire list and accompanying analysis [over on AltSearchEngines](https://web.archive.org/web/20110529022455/http://altsearchengines.com/2007/10/01/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-october-2007/).

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alt_search_engines_oct07.php))*