Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled Beyond Google: Easy-to-Use Innovative Resources and Alternative Search Engines You Can Use Today by Maureen Yoder, Lesley University and Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois at Springfield.  About 42 in attendance.  Session was good. Main points include:

• Microsoft Live Search is now Bing
  • Now in the same league as Google and Yahoo!
• Wolfram Alpha
• Katroo.com
  • Metasearch
  • Natural language search
  • GUI of results
• ChaCha
  • Cellphone-based
  • Voice input
  • Natural language input
  • Human-answered
• GoodSearch
  • Each search provides a microdonation to a charity of your choice
• Archive.org
  • Non-profit
  • Archive of the Internet and multimedia
  • Wayback machine
• Blinkx.com
  • Video search that matches to spoken words in video
• Ted.com
  • search of remarkable speeches

Had to leave a bit early to get ready for my presentation up next!