6 Search Engines Better Than Google at Finding Niche Content - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google is the biggest search engine on the internet, but that doesn't mean it always gives you the best results for your searches. These specialty search engines are better than Google at finding exactly what you're looking for.

Over the years, the use of search engine optimization (SEO) has led to skewed results on Google. You'll often find that websites that employ best SEO practices rank higher than those with better content. So invariably, you aren't getting the highest quality search results. But if you look away from Google, there are several other options to search the web and find those high-quality resources.

1. Blog Surf (Web): Search the Best Written Blogs on the Internet

Some of the smartest written content on the internet is on personal blogs and single-writer newsletters. But given how SEO works, Google rarely shows these in its first few pages when you search for anything. Blog Surf is trying to bring order to the blogosphere by curating about 1000 of the best blogs written by a single person and letting you search the directory.

The website uses the anti-SEO MarketRank algorithm to assign points to all blog posts, thus arriving at a blog's overall points too. When you search for a term, the results will show you posts by blog ranking. You can filter your results by period and the reading time for the article (less than 5 minutes, 5-10 minutes, or over 10 minutes).

Blog Surf also provides a directory of all the blogs it has, which you can browse by...



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