search engine land: Move over Google, Yahoo, and Bing; blended results or not, personalized search, Twitter results and OneBoxes … you guys are just too predictable for this article. There’s a new breed of search engines out there, and they’re letting users search and find some utterly crazy stuff. And by “crazy,” I mean a lot of things: unique, cool, awesome, and downright strange. Sometimes all of the above. A search engine that lets you find (and buy) discontinued soda pop? Check. A search engine that helps you find cheap Amazon.com items so you can get free shipping? Sure! A search engine to locate misspelled eBay and Craigslist items? Got one of those, too. Looking for dead zones in cellular coverage? Read on.

Call ‘em what you want: strange, cool, unusual, bizarre, you name it. These aren’t your traditional search engines, that’s for sure. Here’s a list of 8 of what we think are the crazy-coolest search engines on the web. (Oh, and with a bonus entry at the end). 

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8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know [search engine land]

Iconoculture: Product reviews on Amazon.com? They’re fine and all, but today’s consumers aren’t one-site shoppers. To meet their multi-site shopping needs, there’s Giddi, an aggregator site that pulls together reviews and recommendations from multiple e-retailers. Giddi lists more than 600,000 products in upwards of 250 categories. Over 1.6 million reviews, pulled from e-commerce and media sources, are collected so consumers can search products by brand, popularity, product age and overall “Giddi Rating.”

More concerned with price? Giddi’s got that, too; the site lets shoppers compare product prices against multiple retailers, and provides enough comparisons to make anyone, well, giddy.

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft are trying to out-do each other in the search engine war. With these search giants in the limelight, how on earth are young start-ups with new search technologies going to compete successfully?
Find out in a Fast Company interview with founders of new start-ups which are re-defining the very notion of online search. For example, one of the start-ups mentioned, Pluck, has a new search technology called Perch (“persistent search”) which is forever fetching things on eBay, news sites, shopping sites and elsewhere, much like a personal-clipping service. Even Google can’t beat that!
Read: Fast Talk: Search Them [Fast Company]