We generally talk about Search Engine Optimization how to’s and best practices, but today I wanted to mention the new trends and technologies of Search Engines. There are many up and coming search engines, and each one is focused on making a better search. This is being implemented in many ways, from faster and real time results to personalized searches, interfaces for results and clustered results for easier browsing.

CNN recently wrote and article about these new search engines, “Instead of trying to be Google killers, these sites have more humble aspirations: to be alternatives to the industry giants. ” After all, Google does remain the no. 1 search tool on the web today with “nearly 64% of U.S. online searches”. I mention this to say that although there are newer search engines out there, our seo strategies for now will continue as we currently see best. But also, that we are watching these new forms of search engines, with interest and caution.

Want to take a look at these new search engines? 

Twine- Twine is a smarter way to keep up with what you’re into; A new way to collect content and connect with people who share your interests. Use Twine to track, find, and share what interests you. Twine ties it all together by topic, so you can have it in one place. To get started, find a twine of your interest through search or explore, then join!

hakia- Semantic Search; hakia’s semantic technology provides a new search experience that is focused on quality, not popularity. hakia’s quality search results satisfy three criteria simultaneously: They (1) come from credible Web sites recommended by librarians, (2) represent the most recent information available, and (3) remain absolutely relevant to the query.

Searchme- The First Multimedia Search Engine; Find exactly what you are looking for by clicking on one of our unique category suggestions. View search results grouped into logical and easy to use categories.

Kosmix- Kosmix is a guide to the Web;The site lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web even if they don’t know exactly what they are looking for.

WolframAlpha- Making the World’s Knowledge Computable;Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

scoopler- A Real-Time Search Engine;We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time.

OneRiot-  A Real-time Search Engine; OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the real-time web.

Read the CNN Article- New Search Engines Apsire to Supplement Google