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List of search engines

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

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

IFACnet

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

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
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
Bloglines
BlogScope
IceRocket
Regator
Technorati

Multimedia

Source code

Google Code Search
JExamples
Koders
Krugle

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.

Open Drive

Email

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

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

DuckDuckGo
Ixquick

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

Hakia
Yebol

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

Search appliances

Desktop search engines

See also: Desktop search

Name	Platform	Remarks	License
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

Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

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

A9.com
Alexa Internet
Ciao!
Ecosia
Facebook
Ms. Dewey
Yahoo! Search

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

References

^ According to COPYING in SVN trunk on SourceForge.
^ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
^ According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
^ According to [1].
^ According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.

External links

Search Engines at the Open Directory Project