WikiSeek

Apparently, Google is the most searched term on MSN.com (Microsoft’s rival search engine). How come? Well, most PC users have MSN.com set as their default Internet Explorer homepage when they get their new PC out of the box. But, who’s heard of MSN? Virtually no one, but every one knows Google and that’s the search engine people hit as soon as they find it in MSN.

Now, there’s yet another alternative with a stranger name, that’s not going to ever trip off anyone’s tongue, and searches a section of the web and its congeners for a term that is probably only marginally more likely to trip off the tong of others - viz Wikipedia.

So, now we have WikiSeek.com (just a few hours old at the time of writing). WikieSeek searches Wikipedia as you might guess and will apparently return much more valuable results that are essentially spam free (for now) far better than MSN or even Google.

But, will it ever enter the public consciousness in the way that Google has? It’s unlikely, but it’s definitely worth a try regardless, you never know you might like the information it provides and the lack of web spam (again, for now) is definitely a bonus.