With a more than 60% share of the market, everybody knows that Google is the king of search. After its introduction, Microsoft Bing made a small push to steal search traffic, but, ultimtately, the site has done little to take away from Google’s superiority. Does this mean that there aren’t any other worthwhile places to do research on the internet? Of course not! You just have to know where to look.

With that in mind, Reputation.com would like to present Five Research Tools BESIDES Google.

1) Wolfram|Alpha

When Wolfram|Alpha came out in May 2009, news media was quick to categorize the service as the all-mighty “Google Killer.” In reality, however, Wolfram|Alpha was never intended to be a real competitor to Google. After all, it’s not even really a search engine. Long before Bing started calling itself the “decision engine,” Wolfram|Alpha was making its mark as a “computational knowledge engine.”

Using a unique adaptive algorithm, Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is “to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.” In other words, Wolfram|Alpha might not be the place to go to find the nearest pizza place, but it is the place to go to find out the origin of the word pizza, the nutritional content of pizza, and the average mass of a slice.

So what can you use Wolfram|Alpha for? Math for one thing. From the simplest arithmetic to advanced logic, Wolfram|Alpha computes answers as fast as a calculator and with nifty graphics to boot. Wolfram|Alpha is also great for economics research, health and medicine, and finance.

2) USA.gov

Finding relevant information through the vast reaches of government beaurocracy is rarely easy. Luckily, there is a tool to help: USA.gov. USA.gov is an an interagency initiative administered by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Communications. The website went online in 2000 and was originally known as FirstGov.gov.

Using USA.gov, web searchers can find detailed information on a variety of topics, including government benefits and grants, jobs and education, and the criminal justice and legal system. Technically, USA.gov isn’t a search engine, but rather an information portal for government websites. Considering how far spread out most of this information is though, USA.gov is actually a really valuable tool.

3) Technorati

While Google has its own blog search option, there’s few websites better for searching the wide world of blogs than Technorati. Technorati indexes millions of blog posts everyday and ranks them according to their respective “authority.” According to the website, “Authority is calculated based on a site’s linking behavior, categorization and other associated data over a short, finite period of time. A site’s authority may rapidly rise and fall depending on what the blogosphere is discussing at the moment, and how often a site produces content being referenced by other sites.” In layman’s terms, Technorati offers access to the highest quality blog content on a variety of different subjects, from sports and technology to politics and entertainment.

4) One Riot

One Riot is a relatively new search engine that specializes in tracking information in realtime by crawling the links people share on social networking websites like Twitter and Digg. As the web becomes more and more social, it is increasingly useful for individuals to be able to access the most popular information of the moment. Granted, sometimes this doesn’t always produce the most relevant information, but if you want to know what everyone is talking about, One Riot is the place to be.

(One note: It seems like people who use the One Riot toolbar add-on have been having some trouble. I would recommend steering clear of it for now.)

5) Evri

Evri.com uses a process known as semantic search. Semantics is the study of finding meaning in language. So, naturally, semantic search is about using an understanding and knowledge of language to guide searches. Evri describes it like this: “technology automates connections between Web content by applying a more human-like understanding of the words on the page.”

Like One Riot, Evri features a wide range of realtime content, including up-to-date information from Twitter and other social networking websites. It also breaks down popular topics into additional relevant information through a series of filters.