Stumpedia, which describes itself as "a social search engine that relies on human  participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web" has now started to provide what it terms 'instant answers'. These are not the same kind of small potted answers that you get with a search engine like Ask however, oh no. These ...

Link: Twing"aims to be the most comprehensive and highly targeted forum search engine for real people seeking real discussions and real information in real time. And of course, the information we index - content-rich discussions in numerous forums worldwide - is provided by real people. As a result, what Twing offers that traditional search ...

Topicle is the latest in the line of create your own search engines. However, it's based on the Google version with the slight twist that people can edit and comment on the engine, as well as suggesting new URLs. However, these features alone don't make me want to change from using the straightforward Google version.

Stumpedia. This is another social search engine, where people add their own links. They've only recently launched and have about 1,200 links. There were 2 for 'internet' for example, so there is a long way to go before it becomes useful. I really do think that if you're going to launch something like this you really do need to have seeded the ...

inSuggest - Personal recommendations. This is very nice. There are two options, both of which work in the same way; web pages and Flickr images. I'm rather more interested in the Web side of things, so that's what I'll look at. You type in a URL of a site that you like to start with (basic URL seems to work best, it gets a bit confused if you go ...

similicio.us. Very simple concept behind this one. Just type in a URL or a specific webpage or perhaps an article and this engine will try and find similar sites. It uses del.icio.us which is fine, but would be even more useful if it also included the related option from something like Google. However, if you're really stuck, give this one a try.

Delver is a new engine, still in closed beta that I discovered via TechCrunch. The idea with this one is that you tell it who you are, let it find your friends at places such as social networks and so on, and creates a series of results based on stuff they have found and produced. A search for 'New York' will pop up a blog post your best friend ...

FuzzFind Web Search. is a meta search engine with a slight twist in that it also includes del.icio.us results into the mix, along with Google, Yahoo and Live. Results are very straightforward, based on links and position with search engines. Interesting to see how the results work out!