It looks difficult to beat google and yahoo search engines but still new search engines can prove to be quite useful. Exalead is one of them. To find just the results of the query entered by the user is really not enough for a search engine to be popular these days, it has to be simple, smooth, efficient and most importantly it should provide you with more options to choose from. So here is one that might just fulfill your needs.

When you enter your query you get your results but with more options as shown below

Other than the general results the above options will be provided on the right side of the same result page. You can search a blog or a forum for your query. Multimedia is another great option as there is no need to search for audios and videos separately that are related to your query if there are any. But the best feature is File types in which you can get the pdf results for your query with a single click. You can get more options like directories, wikipedia and rss but that depends upon what you are searching for. Related terms to your query are also provided.

Its general search results are also not only text based results. It provides a combination of visual search and text based results. For example if I search for nokia, the result will be as follows

So you can see the preview of the site before entering it. You can sign up there and you will get your personalised homepage.