This is a list of articles about 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
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
- Bing
- Blekko
- Google
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Soso.com (Chinese)
- Volunia
- Yahoo!
- Yandex.com
- Yodao (Chinese)
P2P search engines
- FAROO
- Seeks (Open Source)
- YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)
Metasearch engines
- Blingo
- Yippy (formerly Clusty)
- DeeperWeb
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick
- Kayak
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- Mobissimo
- Otalo
- PCH Search and Win
- SideStep
- WebCrawler
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/Turkey
- Yehey!, Philippines
- ZipLocal, Canada/United States
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- Getit Infoservices Private Limited
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
- Justdial
Enterprise
Food/Recipes
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Mobile/Handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Job
Main article: Job search engine
- 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
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
- 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
Video Games
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
- Amatomu
- Bloglines
- BlogScope
- IceRocket
- Regator
- Technorati
Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search
- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- ScienceStage
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
- YouTube
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Cloud
Search engines listed below find various types of files that have been stored in the cloud and made publicly available.
Email
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
Automatic answers
Natural language
See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- hakia
- Lexxe
By model
Privacy search engines
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Egothor
- Grub
- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- Namazu
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
See also:
Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine
- 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
See also: Visual search engine
- ChunkIt!
- Grokker
- Pixsta
- PubGene
- TinEye
- Viewzi
- Macroglossa
Search appliances
See also: Search appliance
Desktop search engines
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Autonomy | Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. | Proprietary, commercial |
Beagle | Linux | Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. | A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
Copernic Desktop Search | Windows | | Free for home use |
Docfetcher | Cross-platform | Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene | Eclipse Public License |
dtSearch Desktop | Windows | | Proprietary (30 day trial) |
Everything | Windows | Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes | Freeware |
Google Desktop | Linux, Mac OS, Windows | Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. | Freeware |
GNOME Storage | Linux | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL |
imgSeek | Linux, Mac OS, Windows | Desktop content-based image search | GPL v2 [1] |
InSight Desktop Search | Windows | Metadata-based search utility | Freeware |
ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:desktop search software. | Proprietary (14 day trial) |
Locate32 | Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb | BSD License[2] |
Lookeen | Windows | Outlook Search Tool, with integrated Desktop Search | Proprietary (14 day trial) |
Meta Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL v2 [3] |
Recoll | Linux, Unix | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL [4] |
Spotlight | Mac OS | Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. | Proprietary |
Strigi | Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows | Cross-platform open source desktop search engine | LGPL v2 [5] |
Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | MPL |
Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine. | Freeware and commercial |
Windows Search | Windows | Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available as Windows Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003. Does not support indexing UNC paths on x64 systems. | Proprietary, freeware |
Usenet
Based on
Google
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
Ask.com
- Hakia (semantic search)
- iWon
- Lycos
- Teoma
Defunct or acquired search engines
- AlltheWeb
- Brainboost (Public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.)
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Btjunkie
- Cuil
- ChunkIt! (now "yolink!") (Public engine no longer exists)
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- Google Answers
- IBM STAIRS
- Infoseek
- Inktomi
- Kartoo
- LeapFish (Public engine no longer exists)
- Lotus Magellan
- MetaLib (Public engine no longer exists)
- mozDex (No longer exists)
- Myriad Search (No longer exists)
- Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
- PubSub
- RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)
- Scroogle (Google Scraper)
- Singingfish
- Speechbot
- Sphere
- Tafiti
- Yebol
- Wikia Search
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
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