List of Search Engines
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This is a list of search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.
By content/topic
General
P2P search engines
Metasearch engines
Geographically limited scope
Accountancy
Business
Enterprise
Food/Recipes
Mobile/Handheld
Job
Legal
Medical
News
People
Real estate / property
Television
Video Games
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
Multimedia
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Email
Maps
Price
Question and answer
Human answers
Automatic answers
Natural language
By model
Privacy search engines
Open source search engines
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
Visual search engines
Search appliances
Usenet
Based on
Google
Yahoo!
Bing
Ask.com
Acquired or defunct search engines
Source:Wikipedia
By content/topic
General
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
- Bing
- Blekko
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Soso.com (Chinese)
- Volunia
- WireDoo
- Yahoo!
- Yandex.com (Russian)
- Yebol
- Yodao (Chinese)
P2P search engines
- FAROO
- Seeks (Open Source)
- YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)
Metasearch engines
- Brainboost (Public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.)
- ChunkIt! (Public engine no longer exists)
- Yippy (formerly Clusty)
- DeeperWeb
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick
- Kayak
- LeapFish (no longer a search engine)
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- MetaLib (Not a public search engine)
- Mobissimo
- Myriad Search (No longer exists)
- SideStep
- WebCrawler
- Crawler.com
Geographically limited scope
- Accoona, China/United States
- Alleba, Philippines
- Ansearch, Australia/United States/United Kingdom/New Zealand
- Biglobe, Japan
- Daum, Korea
- Goo, Japan
- Guruji.com, India
- Leit.is, Iceland
- Maktoob, Arab World
- Miner.hu, Hungary
- Najdi.si, Slovenia
- Naver, Korea
- Onkosh, Arab World
- Rambler, Russia
- Rediff, India
- SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
- Search.ch, Switzerland
- Sesam, Norway, Sweden
- Seznam, Czech Republic
- Walla!, Israel
- Yandex.ru, Russia
- Yehey!, Philippines
- ZipLocal, Canada/United States
Accountancy
- IFACnet
Business
- Business.com
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
- Justdial
Enterprise
- AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
- Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
- Coveo: Coveo Enterprise Search platform, Coveo Expresso
- Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
- dtSearch: dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web
- Endeca: Information Access Platform
- Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
- Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
- Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition
- Inbenta: Inbenta Semantic Search Engine
- ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
- Northern Light
- Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- SAP: TREX
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
- Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
- X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
- ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform
Food/Recipes
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Mobile/Handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Job
- Bixee.com (India)
- CareerBuilder.com (USA)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Dice.com (USA)
- Eluta.ca (Canada)
- Hotjobs.com (USA)
- Incruit (Korea)
- Indeed.com (USA)
- LinkUp.com (USA)
- Monster.com (USA), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
Legal
- Google Scholar
- Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Manupatra
- Quicklaw
- WestLaw
Medical
- Bing Health
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine
- Entrez (includes Pubmed)
- GenieKnows
- GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
- Healia
- Healthline
- Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
- PubGene
- Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)
- Searchmedica
- VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
- WebMD
News
- Bing News
- Daylife
- Google News
- MagPortal
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Topix.net
- Yahoo! News
People
- Comfibook
- Ex.plode.us
- InfoSpace
- PeekYou
- Spock
- Spokeo
- Wink
- Worldwide Helpers
- Zabasearch.com
- ZoomInfo
Real estate / property
- Fizber.com
- HotPads.com
- Realtor.com
- Redfin
- Rightmove
- Zillow.com
Television
- TV Genius
Video Games
- Wazap (Japan)
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
- Omgili
Blog
- Amatomu
- IceRocket (Defunct)
- Regator
- Technorati
Multimedia
- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- ScienceStage
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
- YouTube
Source code
- Google Code Search
- JExamples
- Koders
- Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- FlixFlux
- Isohunt
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
- Lookeen
- TEK
Maps
- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Nokia_Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- WikiMapia
- Yahoo! Maps
Price
- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle)
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- ShopWiki
- Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
- SwoopThat.com
- TheFind.com
- Wishabi
Question and answer
Human answers
- Answers.com
- Ask Me Help Desk
- DeeperWeb
- eHow
- Quora
- Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
- Uclue
- wikiHow
- Yahoo! Answers
Automatic answers
- AskMeNow
- BrainBoost
- True Knowledge
- Wolfram Alpha
Natural language
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- BrainBoost
- hakia
- Lexxe
- Powerset
By model
Privacy search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- Scroogle Scraper
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Egothor
- Grub
- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- MozDex
- Namazu
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Wikia Search
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Semantic browsing engines
- Hakia
- Yebol
Social search engines
- ChaCha Search
- Delver
- Eurekster
- Mahalo.com
- OneRiot
- Rollyo
- SearchTeam
- Sproose
- Trexy
- Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback
Visual search engines
- ChunkIt!
- Grokker
- Pixsta
- PubGene
- TinEye
- Viewzi
- Macroglossa
Search appliances
- Google: Google Search Appliance
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Based on
- AOL Search
- CompuServe Search
- Groovle
- MySpace Search
- Netscape
- Ripple
Yahoo!
- AltaVista
- Ecocho
- Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)
- Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests - formerly based on Google)
- GoodSearch
- Rectifi
Bing
- A9.com
- Alexa Internet
- Ciao!
- Ecosia
- Ms. Dewey
- Yahoo! Search
Ask.com
- Hakia (semantic search)
- iWon
- Lycos
- Teoma
Acquired or defunct search engines
- AlltheWeb
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Btjunkie
- Cuil
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- Google Answers
- IBM STAIRS
- Infoseek
- Inktomi
- Kartoo
- Lotus Magellan
- Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
- PubSub
- RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)
- Scroogle
- Singingfish
- Speechbot
- Sphere
- Tafiti
- Wikia Search
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
Source:Wikipedia
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