I wrote in my personal resolutions post that I will do some link blogging, that is share some knowledge about links that I know about. Here is first link blogging post about various search engines that you can use. If you have your own experiences to share about any of these search engines, your views are welcome. 🙂
Alternative Search Engines to Google
A compact sear engine that will bring you results from all: blogs, videos, music…with a single click. You can play the video right there in the sidebar of your window by clicking the video thumbnail.
You can compare the results of your search from various search engines like Google, Yahoo, flickr, msn, ask in the same window. You can add this as a widget in your blog, web site. It is available on Facebook as well.
Search everything in one place: Google, Snap, yahoo, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, Twitter, Flickr, Newsvine, Amazon, ebay, Cnet, imdb, and so on. I am tired, can not possibly list all of them together. Make this your homepage.
It is a visual search engine, you can deepen your search using the tags that appear as word cloud. There is also a version available for kids.
Another aggregate search engine that you can use.
A visual search engine. It did work for me when I tried to search free ebooks. Though I find KartOO icon bit irritating when it arrives on search pages.
Searching People
Attendi 
Here is an search engine that helps you locate people who share your similar interests like music, travel, design. It is still adding people to site.
You can connect with people who share your interests like Spanish language, travel, books and so on. You can also sign up for the service.
Another search engine that can search people as well as companies. However, so far this search engine functions for US people only. I added it here because some of the readers of this blog are in US.
Find Music and Sounds
A special search engine to search your song, lyrics, and band.
FindSounds Search the Web for Sounds
A free site that can bring you clips for the sound you were looking for. Did you want a violin or a tabla sound, you have it here. 🙂
A search engine that allows you to search for popular songs and also listen to it online. Good thing is that you can search Atif Aslam or Kunal Ganjawala as well. 🙂
You can search postcards using this search engine. I found this rare and old one on searching for love.
Search for Articles
As name suggests, here is your search database for scientific literature, papers and articles. You could write your next scientific blog post out of it. 🙂 Currently, this web page takes you to CiteSeerX.
You can find many free articles here. I could find several articles on topics like productivity and business aspects. You tell me what else we can look for here.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Find journals for free if you know the title or author.
Create Your Own Search Engine
You can create your own personalized search robot. I guess it is helpful only if you are working on a research project or you can engage your kids in their search. For a quick search, google is better. 🙂
This is your personal search engine that you can custom as per your needs. It can look in specific web sites you want and avoid those that you don’t want.
It has same almost same function as rollyo. You can customise your search, using this search engine.
Wallpapers
Flickr wallpaper search engine is one place where you can find quality wallpapers. Somehow I could not get the right size for use, though.
Visceral Observations 
The fact that I have never heard of these search engines shows how ignorant I am. Thanks for the education. Now at least I will ahve heard of them! 🙂
looks like some body ran a google search on search engine…
Is there a search engine to help me search the things i left here and there at home?????
I could save a lot of time, you see !!!
@Nita: Its nothing to do with ignorance. Necessity is mother of discovery. 🙂 I needed some of them, so I looked for them. I got to know these engines over the months. Some of them are good. But some of them I have not used.
@Falcon: Try doing it you would not find half of the compilation. 🙂
@Vimal: Wait till someone creates such an engine customised for each home. 🙂
Its good to see more tech specific topic.. 🙂
Try dogpile.. it is a meta search engine.. you will get best results..
Jokes apart, the “find sounds” search engine really helps. Thanks a lot
Hail Poonam !!!
@Harsha: Thanks for this Dogpile search engine. It also looks like an aggregated search engine. I will try to update this post with dogpile.
@Vimal: Yeah, Find Sounds is unique search engine. But for songs, I liked Songza, better than our own Raaga. 🙂
Hey, Do you know about http://www.kartoo.com
KartOO is a visual meta search engine. It is gives results in flash based maps and provides links and relations between the results. Worth try. Give a visit.
Also the Mamma search engine. They claim being mother of all search engines. [img]http://www.mamma.com/images/mamma_reg.gif[/img]
I tried to post logo of Mamma in previous comment but failed. Hahhha. I do foolish things sometimes.
Link to mamma : http://www.mamma.com/
Please note that you can embed Quintura search cloud onto your blog by clicking Embed it! on http://www.quintura.com.
As well, you can use Quintura site search widget via http://affiliates.quintura.com
Good collection…. will save this for future ref 🙂 really good one
@ Poonam
I was jus kiddin…
@Suda: Thanks for sharing this info. I will add up this engine in an updated post.
@Yakov: Thanks, actually I could not use that feature effectively. So did not write about it. Let me try it again and then I will edit this. Thanks for pointing out, though.
@Dinsan: Glad it was useful. So how was you day?
@Falcon: I know you were kidding but thought that I should clarify lest a gullible reader thinks I used a cheat sheet. 😉
wooow!!!!! so many are there kya?
Alternative Search Engines to Google!!!! sounds similar as Alternate OS vs Microsoft Windows.. 🙂
well thank you very much.
Wow, I thought Google was the only search engine. Thanks for this post. 🙂
wow this is a good list. thanks.
Poonam: Perhaps you would like to join this experiment in trying out new search engines – and NOT using Google – for 1st April? Serious.
http://altsearchengines.com/2008/03/31/tomorrow-is-the-annual-day-without-google/
@Bharath: There are actually many more that I have not listed. 🙂
@Amit: You are welcome! 🙂
@xylene: Thanks! You never answered me why you named yourself after benzene pro–oops..xylene?
@Shefaly: Done! It was not hard at all. 🙂 I made sputter my home page.
There is a search engine for just Indian blogs posts, reached you via it. http://www.linq.in. check it out.
@Bunty, thanks for sharing this. One of my blogs Being A Blogger does figure in top 20 list. 🙂