Beyond Google; 9 Ultimate Search Engines
#3 Apache Solr
Like Yacy, Apache Solr is an open source stand alone server developed from Apache Lucen project. The platform features powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering of information, rich document handling and near real time indexing.
#2 Dogpile
Dogpile was created by Infospace in an attempt to save user’s time. This search engine fetches results from Google, Yahoo and several other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers.
#1 Ixquick
Ixquick is a meta search engine founded in 1998. Users looking for privacy and powerful search can choose this platform to find results. Results come with ratings like five stars meaning that five search engines agree on it. On entering any advanced search, lxquick sends the query to the search engines that can handle that specific query; hence you find your results.