SEARCHING BEYOND JUST GOOGLE Kavita Kukday,The Times of India If, thanks to Google, searching on the Internet has started getting wearingly familiar, you probably need to look beyond Google and check out other search sites that are vying for the No 2 position. Here are three Google alternatives that are refreshingly different from Google. Try them and see if they work better for you: Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com): This is a ?metasearch? engine, offering simultaneous results from several search engines. It is fast, has a clean user interface, and presents information in ?clusters? that narrow down your search results. Key in ?Diwali?, for example, and you?ll get subfolders like ?History of Diwali?, ?Diwali gifts and cards? and ?Diwali Recipes?. Vivisimo also lets you restrict searches to publications such as Reuters, CNN and such. Grokker (www.grokker.com): This search engine touts visual search as its selling point. Here again you?d find you search results sorted in clusters of the topic, but instead of presenting them in subfolders, Grokker separates them into a ?Map view? that you can zook into. It?s easier to relate to and visually more appealing. Rollyo (www.rollyo.com): This isn?t a separate search engine; it?s a tool that lets you create your own domain-specific search engine on the fly. What it basically does is, run on top of Yahoo! search and let your ?roll your own? searches. So, any individual can set up a custom ?searchroll? such as ?Medicine? or ?News?, which searches within anywhere from one to 25 different sites. This basically means that instead of sorting through thousands of sites, you could narrow your search to sites you already know and trust. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105 SEARCHING BEYOND JUST GOOGLE Kavita Kukday,The Times of India If, thanks to Google, searching on the Internet has started getting wearingly familiar, you probably need to look beyond Google and check out other search sites that are vying for the No 2 position. Here are three Google alternatives that are refreshingly different from Google. Try them and see if they work better for you: Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com): This is a “metasearch” engine, offering simultaneous results from several search engines. It is fast, has a clean user interface, and presents information in “clusters” that narrow down your search results. Key in ‘Diwali’, for example, and you’ll get subfolders like ‘History of Diwali’, ‘Diwali gifts and cards’ and ‘Diwali Recipes’. Vivisimo also lets you restrict searches to publications such as Reuters, CNN and such. Grokker (www.grokker.com): This search engine touts visual search as its selling point. Here again you’d find you search results sorted in clusters of the topic, but instead of presenting them in subfolders, Grokker separates them into a ‘Map view’ that you can zook into. It’s easier to relate to and visually more appealing. Rollyo (www.rollyo.com): This isn’t a separate search engine; it’s a tool that lets you create your own domain-specific search engine on the fly. What it basically does is, run on top of Yahoo! search and let your “roll your own” searches. So, any individual can set up a custom ‘searchroll’ such as ‘Medicine’ or ‘News’, which searches within anywhere from one to 25 different sites. This basically means that instead of sorting through thousands of sites, you could narrow your search to sites you already know and trust. Thanks & Regards, Farooque Shaheen, Caritor (India) Pvt Ltd. Tel. 080-26678388 Ext. 4105