Editor’s Note: This list was contributed by Charles Knight, editor of AltSearchEngines, a former RWW network blog.

In terms of user experience, the gap between the major search engines and their alternatives continues to widen — a lot. Google has been compared to a luxury liner that turns around very, very slowly, whereas the startups are speedboats that can turn (or innovate) on a dime. I guarantee that if you try any of these top 10 alternative search engines of 2008, you won’t come away saying, “Hey, that was just like Google.”

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