Recommended Search Engines

I have found a few search engines that will find different materials for you.  Alltop, Viewzi, Carrot2 and Google

Alltop
Alltop is an "online magazine rack" of popular topics. They clain to have  "All the topics, all the time" with stories updated every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and we'll deliver it to you 24 x 7. For example I did a search using the categories.  I selected Tech>Games which produced a list of 116 online publications of Gaming information.   Some of the titles include Game Politics one the articles going there included Game addition studies.    Another interesting one was "PlayNoEvil Game Security News and Analysis".   While some of the ezines were strickly about what game is coming out, some of them are directed towards people in the industry.  I also checked out the Work directory and searched Project Management and found some interesting internet publications. 
This site is definitely worth checking out.

Viewzi
This search engine appears to be searching for websites primarily.  The interesting part of this site is that when you hover over the result a mini picture of the website comes up.  So from that glance I could see when they were trying to sell me something or inform me.  Pretty good!  When searching for the game programming I found sites that had tutorials and the classic sites such as GameDev.net.  Overall it gave some good sites to find useful tools, tutorials and career specific info.  In the project management area it easily found items to do with being a project manager and tools for project management.   One of the sites was specifically at project management for IT.

Carrot2
Carrot2is using another popular tool - clustering.  I keep hearing a lot about this at CIL.  Carrot2is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize small collections of documents, e.g. search results, into thematic categories.  Apart from two specialized document clustering algorithms, Carrot2offers ready-to-use components for fetching search results from various sources including YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Live API, eTools Meta Search, Lucene, SOLR, Google Desktop and more. 

What it did when I search for game programming is give me all the terms that were in the sites that it found and included how many there were.  Like what EBSCOhost does if you look at the publications limiting.  One of the terms was game programming tutorials so I clicked on that and found tutorials that I had not seen anywhere so far.   Works pretty good so far.  Next I did the project management search and again it broke it down into subjects that were found within all the project management results.  Oh one side thing if you are visually oriented try clicking on their visualizations it gives you a picture of your search results. 

Google Scholar
This isn't new but I've talked about it enough to classes that it is about time to link to it.

If in your searching you find a new search engine and would like to share it, email Jane Carvajal.