Two Final, Frivolous Alternatives to Google

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Two Final, Frivolous Alternatives to Google

The final two entries are somewhat fun, undeniably trivial, and appear in this chapter more for the sake of comprehensiveness than because I particularly recommend them.

Recipe Search queries Google with food types and ingredients, delivering Web pages with recipes. This simple task appears to be accomplished by adding the keyword recipe to your keyword string. You could do that yourself. Nonetheless, the site resides at Stanford University, so by using it you’re probably encouraging somebody to start an Internet business. Go here to check it out:

theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/recipe.html

Boogle (www.boogle.com) is even more trivial, yet more attractive, as shown in Figure 14-21. Boogle provides a straight, simple Google Web search with no added functionality and adds a picture and quote to the search page. The attribution of the quote is searchable — that’s a nice touch. Click refresh to see a new picture and quote.

Figure 14-21: Boogle is an unenhanced Google engine, with a pretty picture and a quote.

You might never be tempted to visit Boogle again, but stop into the forum linked on the front page. You might get hooked on the lively discussions and quote suggestions posted by fans.

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