{"id":98,"date":"2007-01-31T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/top-100-alternative-search-engines\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T17:00:35","slug":"top-100-alternative-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/top-100-alternative-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Alternative Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlesknightseo.com\/default.aspx\">Charles S. Knight<\/a> has a compiled his list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php\">Top 100 Alternative Search Engines<\/a>. The article makes for an interesting read as he describes his method of analysis by comparing them to Google under a set of categories he defines.<\/p>\n<p>What made me grin the most was the reference at the end of the article to Asimov&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/infohost.nmt.edu\/~mlindsey\/asimov\/question.htm\">The Last Question<\/a>, an excellent short story that wonderfully suggests an answer to the question &#8220;is Google&#8217;s mission to organize the world&#8217;s information and make it universally accessible and useful, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fait_accompli\">fait accompli<\/a>&#8220;. In fact for making that observation\/link alone Charles gets a thumbs up from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles S. Knight has a compiled his list of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines. The article makes for an interesting read as he describes his method of analysis by comparing them to Google under a set of categories he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/top-100-alternative-search-engines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,5],"tags":[396,387,385],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-google","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-google","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}