Scary timing...
Speaking only hours ago of this, & the legacy/bastardization of "search engines" (esp. Google) And poof! This appeared by magic.

Google Search: Ten alternative search engines to Google’s offering

FWIW, in revisiting my turn-of-the-century search tools directory, I found many long gone, but I re-tried Bing, with surprisingly good results. (Haven't tried it since checking it out at launch time and then returning to Netscape/Firefox and then-not-evil #Google )

#GoogleISevil #SearchTools #SearchEngines ++ My museum/archives of the heyday of search engines (IMM) ; http://www.fenichel.com/search