Earlier, I had a post on search engines and today, I'm trying out some new ones.

First up is alltheweb. It has a familiar, Google-like interface, the ability to search for news, pictures, audio, and video, and includes an "offensive content filter." Apparently, Ashamaley is somewhat offensive, because her site dropped ranking when I turned the filter on and off when searching for Palila piece of ass. Another good thing: if your search has several possibilities, depending on the aspect of the item, alltheweb comes up with those categories and lets you drop and add them. Example: searching for 2gether.

Next is Vivisimo, a search engine searches with Clusty. Clusty, appropriately, clusters results into categories, so you can view all categories, or just the ones you think are the most appropriate. For example, searching for Ghani blogging hangover brings up the categories "Ghani@ mischieftodata," "Circulars," "Black Kembara Special Edition," and "Other Topics." Also, you can categorize your search by searching in news, images, shopping, encyclopedia, and gossip, and offers customizable category tabs (search in blogs ebay and Slashdot, for example). There's also a Clusty Firefox toolbar.

Finally, the little turban-wearing imp at Kartoo draws me a map of my clustered images and draws relationships between them. Also, it gives me a pictoral indication of the relavency of each item and shows me a preview of the text when I mouseover each item. Example: Search for Joel Donkeys. You'll get a pretty picture of things and relationships, but the page with the [lots of pages picture] is the one I'm looking for. Plus, I can refine my search by clicking on things. It's not a very clear and accurate search, but it's pretty.

My pick: Kartoo, because the imp-genie rubs his lamp when you search for things.