Search Engines
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www.google.com |
General
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
- Bing
- Blekko
- DuckDuckGo
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Soso.com (Chinese)
- Volunia
- Yahoo!
- Yandex
- Yodao (Chinese)
P2P search engines
Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine
- Blingo
- Yippy (formerly Clusty)
- DeeperWeb
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick (and startpage.com)
- Kayak
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- Mobissimo
- Otalo
- PCH Search and Win
- SideStep
- Thiv
- 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
See also: Enterprise search
- 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
Fashion
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
People
Real estate / property
Television
Video Games
- Wazap (Japan)
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
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.
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
See also: Question answering
Natural language
See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search
By model
Privacy search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- Ixquick (and startpage.com)
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Grub
- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- Namazu
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
- Searchdaimon
- 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
Search appliances
See also: Search appliance
Desktop search engines
See also: Desktop search
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IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. |
Proprietary, commercial |
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Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. |
A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
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Free for home use |
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Cross-platform |
Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene |
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Proprietary (30 day trial) |
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Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes |
Freeware |
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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 |
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Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL |
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Metadata-based search utility |
Freeware |
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ISYS:desktop search software. |
Proprietary (14 day trial) |
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Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb |
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Outlook Search Tool, with integrated Desktop Search |
Proprietary (14 day trial) |
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Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL v2 [2] |
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Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL [3] |
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Proprietary |
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Cross-platform open source desktop search engine |
LGPL v2 [4] |
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Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. |
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Semantic Search Engine. |
Freeware and commercial |
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Part of Ubuntu Desktop. |
GPL v3 |
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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
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)
- 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
See also
- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of semantic search engines
- List of web directories
- Search aggregator
- Search engine optimization
- Category:Search engine software
· ► Personalized search (2 P) A· ► Internet search algorithms (2 C, 10 P) B· ► Baidu (1 C, 9 P) · ► Bing (21 P) · ► Blog search engines (17 P) C· ► Code search engines (10 P) |
D· ► Domain-specific search engines (2 C, 42 P) E· ► Employment websites (71 P) G· ► Google (11 C, 160 P, 1 F) H· ► Human edited search engines (3 P) M· ► Music search engines (7 P) P· ► Pay per click search engines (9 P) |
P cont.· ► Product searching websites (14 P) S· ► Search engine optimization (2 C, 48 P) · ► Social search (2 C, 17 P) Μ· ► Search engine website stubs (65 P) |
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Timeline (full list) |
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Year |
Engine |
Current status |
1993 |
Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Inactive |
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1994 |
Active, Aggregator |
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Active, Yahoo Search |
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Active |
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1995 |
Active, Yahoo Search |
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Active |
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Inactive |
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Active |
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Active |
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Yahoo! 2008 |
Active, Launched as a directory |
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1996 |
Active, Aggregator |
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Acquired by Yahoo! |
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Active (lycos.com) |
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Active (rebranded ask.com) |
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1997 |
Inactive |
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Active |
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1998 |
Inactive |
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Active |
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Active as Bing |
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Inactive (merged with NATE) |
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1999 |
Inactive (URL redirected to Yahoo!) |
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Active, rebranded Yellowee.com |
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Active |
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Active |
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Inactive |
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2000 |
Active |
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Inactive |
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2002 |
Acquired by Yahoo! |
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2003 |
Active |
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Inactive |
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2004 |
Active, Launched own web search |
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Inactive |
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Active |
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2005 |
Active |
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Active |
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Active |
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Inactive |
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2006 |
Inactive |
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Active |
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Active |
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Active as Bing, Launched as |
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Active |
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Active as BeeMP3.com |
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2007 |
Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Active, Google Search |
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2008 |
Inactive (redirects to Bing) |
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Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Inactive |
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Inactive (redirects to Ecosia) |
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Active |
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2009 |
Active, Launched as |
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Inactive |
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Inactive due to a lack of funding |
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Active |
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Active |
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2010 |
Active |
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Inactive |
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Active, Launched global |
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Active |
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2012 |
Active |
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Active, cloud file search |
Web Directories
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