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With Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are constantly touting new improved search features it's hard for the little guys to compete, which is why [ACrappySearchEngine.com][3] takes the alternative route -- really bad search results.
ACrappySearchEngine is a humorous take on Google and the rest and it returns some truly meaningless results. I particularly love the "less" link where Google's "more" link would normally be. Clicking "less" removes all the other links.
But humor aside (and I do realize that ACrappySearchEngine.com is a joke) I actually would love to see something based on "anti" search algorithms.
As I wrote a while back, I love [LibraryThing's Unsuggest][1], which attempts to give search results based on what books you would probably not like.
A number of pundits have already written repeatedly that our obsession with targeted search, optimized results and tag-based filtering allow us to find what we want on the web, but the same tools also tend to narrow our world-view by showing only those things we are likely to agree with.
There's something to be said for expanding your narrow tunnel of reality by encountering unexpected things that are bound to shock, alarm and quite possibly enrich you in unexpected ways.
[via [Valleywag][2]]
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/librarythings_u.html "LibraryThing's UnSuggest: Discover Your Dislikes"
[2]: http://www.valleywag.com/tech/acrappysearchengine%27com/just-what-you-werent-looking-for-263054.php "Just what you were(n't) looking for"
[3]: http://acrappysearchengine.com/ "A Crappy Search Engine"
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