Is there a site like Google?

In the last decade and a half Google had become ruler over web searching and other web services such as mail, maps, docs, etc…
It has sunk into our lives to the level that it is a part of our slang, as we say to “google” something or to “gmail” someone. The control over our lives and the problem with the information it gathers has been talked about a lot.
Google holds such a big part of the search engines market that sometimes we forget that there are other not so bad search engines. To see a list of google like sites follow this link Similar Sites to Google
Obviously there are sites on the list like Yahoo.com or Ask.com, these sites provides the same service that google does but with some variation in the results. What about the other not so familiar sites on the list, the ones who don’t give you the straight out search results. Have you ever taken the time to see what they offer?
There is no site like google but there are different sites that can and will give you some pretty good information.