These are some of the worlds best independant search engines, with the exception of a couple. There have been a lot of them in the past, but with the heavy competition, they have just disappeared. Mostly due the clever technologies used by the so called modern search engines.
One of the latest addition to the search engine sites are Cuil. It was developed by some ex employees of Google.
All you have to do now is to wait and see how well they can compete with Google. I have used it to test it out and to compare it with Google, so far not too impressed.
Some of the search engines are powered by the ones listed above, so therefore we will not list them. There are hundreds of them out there, but these are so far the market leaders.
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