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. For a list of search engine software, see List of enterprise search vendors.
Contents
- 1 By content/topic
- 1.1 General
- 1.2 P2P search engines
- 1.3 Metasearch engines
- 1.4 Geographically limited scope
- 1.5 Semantic
- 1.6 Accountancy
- 1.7 Business
- 1.8 Computers
- 1.9 Education
- 1.10 Enterprise
- 1.11 Fashion
- 1.12 Food/recipes
- 1.13 Genealogy
- 1.14 Mobile/handheld
- 1.15 Job
- 1.16 Legal
- 1.17 Medical
- 1.18 News
- 1.19 People
- 1.20 Real estate/property
- 1.21 Television
- 1.22 Video Games
- 1.23 Darknet
- 2 By information type
- 3 By model
- 4 By popularity
- 5 Based on
- 6 Defunct or acquired search engines
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
By content/topic
General
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Baidu | Chinese, Japanese |
| Bing | Multilingual |
| DuckDuckGo | Multilingual |
| Ecosia* | Multilingual |
| Exalead | Multilingual |
| Gigablast | English |
| Multilingual | |
| Munax | Multilingual |
| Qwant | Multilingual |
| Sogou | Chinese |
| Soso.com | Chinese |
| Yahoo!* | Multilingual |
| Yandex | Multilingual |
| Youdao | Chinese |
* Bing powered
P2P search engines
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| FAROO | English |
| Seeks (Open Source) | English |
| YaCy (Free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual |
Metasearch engines
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| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| DeeperWeb | English |
| Dogpile | English |
| Excite | English |
| HotBot | English |
| Info.com | English |
| Ixquick (StartPage) | Multilingual |
| Kayak and SideStep | Multilingual |
| Mamma | |
| Metacrawler | English |
| Mobissimo | Multilingual |
| Otalo | English |
| PCH Search and Win | |
| Skyscanner | Multilingual |
| WebCrawler | English |
| Yippy (formerly Clusty) | English |
Geographically limited scope
Semantic
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| Search Engine Name | Description | Speciality |
|---|---|---|
| Evi[1] | Specialises in knowledge base and semantic search | answer engine |
| Yummly | Semantic web search engine for food, cooking and recipes | food related |
| Swoogle | Searching over 10,000 ontologies | Semantic web ontologies. Indexes over 4 million semantic web documents. |
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- Getit Infoservices Private Limited
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
- Justdial
Computers
Education
General:
Academic materials only:
Enterprise
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- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
- SimilarWeb[2]
- Swiftype: Swiftype Search
Fashion
Food/recipes
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Genealogy
- Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Mobile/handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
- URX: App Search
Job
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- Adzuna (UK)
- Bixee.com (India)
- CareerBuilder.com (USA)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Dice.com (USA)
- Eluta.ca (Canada)
- Hotjobs.com (USA)
- JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan and India)
- Incruit (Korea)
- Indeed.com (USA)
- Glassdoor.com (USA)
- LinkUp.com (USA)
- Monster.com (USA), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
Legal
Medical
- Bing Health
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- CiteAb (antibody search engine for medical researchers)
- 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
- Trapit
- Yahoo! News
People
Real estate/property
Television
Video Games
- Wazap (Japan)
Darknet
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
Multimedia
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- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- ScienceStage
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
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
Question and answer
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Human answers
- Answers.com
- Ask Me Help Desk
- DeeperWeb
- eHow
- Quora
- Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
- Uclue
- wikiHow
- Yahoo! Answers
Automatic answers
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Natural language
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By model
Social and environmental focus
Privacy search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- Ixquick (StartPage)
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Gigablast
- Grub
- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- Namazu
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Searchdaimon
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
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Visual search engines
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Search appliances
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Desktop search engines
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Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
| Name | Platform | Remarks | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomy | Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.[3] | 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 |
| ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:desktop search software. | Proprietary (14 day trial) |
| Locate32 | Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb | BSD License[4] |
| Lookeen | Windows | Major Microsoft Windows search product. | Proprietary (14 day trial)[5] |
| Meta Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL v2 [6] |
| Recoll | Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL [7] |
| 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 [8] |
| Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | MPL |
| Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available).[9] | Freeware and commercial |
| Unity Dash | Linux | Part of Ubuntu Desktop. | GPL v3 |
| 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 |
| X1 Desktop Search | Windows | Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search. | Proprietary (14 day trial)[10] |
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
By popularity
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Based on
- AOL Search
- CompuServe Search
- Groovle
- MySpace Search
- Mystery Seeker
- Netscape
- Ripple
Yahoo!
- 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
Defunct or acquired search engines
- AlltheWeb
- AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
- Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products)[11]
- 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
- Volunia [12]
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
See also
- Most popular Internet search engines
- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of web directories
- Search aggregator
- Search engine optimization
- Category:Search engine software
References
- ↑ http://evi.com . Accessed 2013 June 14.
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- ↑ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
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- ↑ According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
- ↑ According to [1].
- ↑ According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
- ↑ According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
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- ↑ According to domain liquidation notice at http://blog.mrwebmaster.it/2014/04/11/il-dominio-volunia-it-e-in-vendita.html (Italian)
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