I know that using the Google Image Labeler only benefits Google, but damn it all, they made helping them addicting.

An interesting read from The Economist: Who’s afraid of Google?

Powerset, a new yet-to-be-released natural language search engine just posted their work on “parsing and indexing…the hardest corpus [they] could find: Miss South Carlolina’s response to the question, ‘Recent polls have shown that a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a map. Why do you think this is?’ ”

If you are curious about Powerset, here are some Powerset news clippings

Check out the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines as picked by a website I’ve never heard of before. Still, it’s a nice list.

I rarely write about new search engines since they are pretty much a dime a dozen these days, but SideKiq not only has meta-bility searching (has several traditional and vertical search engines, including Ask.com’s AskX), but also has a great unique layout.