Alternative Search Engines

Our other network blog AltSearchEngines asked this week: can a search startup take on the Google juggernaut? According to the post, a trio of small, well-funded startups are taking divergent approaches to break into this area of general-purpose web search: Powerset, of San Francisco, CA, is licensing technology originally from Xerox PARC to tackle the problem of Semantic Search; Mahalo, of Santa Monica, CA, is at work on a “human-powered” search engine; and Quintura, originally from Russia and now based in Alexandria, VA, is creating an effective “see-and-find” visual search engine for the web.