List of search engines
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.
By content/topic
General
Name | Language |
---|---|
Ask.com** | Multilingual |
Baidu | Chinese |
Dogpile*** | English |
DuckDuckGo* | Multilingual |
Ecosia* | Multilingual |
Exalead | Multilingual |
Excite*† | Multilingual |
Gigablast | English |
Google Search | Multilingual |
HotBot* | English |
Lycos* | Multilingual |
MetaCrawler*** | English |
Microsoft Bing | Multilingual |
Mojeek | Multilingual |
Petal | Multilingual |
Qwant* | Multilingual |
Searx*** | Multilingual |
Sogou | Multilingual |
Startpage.com** | English |
Swisscows* | Multilingual |
WebCrawler* | English |
Yahoo! Search*† | Multilingual |
Yandex Search | Multilingual |
Yippy*** | English |
Youdao | Chinese |
* Powered by Microsoft Bing
** Powered by Google
*** Metasearch engine
† Main website is a portal
Based on
Based on Ask.com (formerly)
Based on Bing
- A9.com
- AOL, from 2015
- Alexa Internet
- Ciao!
- Ecosia
- Egerin
- Facebook Search, until 2014
- HotBot
- Ms. Dewey
- WebCrawler
- Yahoo! Search
Based on Google
- AOL Search, until 2015
- BOL
- Groovle
- MySpace Search
- Mystery Seeker
- Netscape
- Ripple
- Startpage.com
- Yahoo! Japan
Based on Yahoo!
- Ecocho (now defunct)
- Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests – formerly based on Google)
- Rectifi (now defunct)
Mobile/handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Geographically localized
Name | Language | Country |
---|---|---|
Accoona | Chinese, English | China, United States |
Biglobe | Japanese | Japan |
Daum | Korean | Korea |
Egerin | Kurdish | Kurdistan |
Fireball | German, English | Germany |
Goo | Japanese | Japan |
Leit.is | Icelandic, English | Iceland |
Maktoob | Arabic, English | Arab World |
Miner.hu | Hungarian | Hungary |
Najdi.si | Slovenian | Slovenia |
Naver | Korean | Korea |
Pipilika | Bangladesh | |
Rambler | Russian | Russia |
Rediff | India | |
SAPO | Portuguese | Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique |
Search.ch | Switzerland | |
Sesam | Norway, Sweden | |
Seznam | Czech | Czech Republic |
Walla! | Israel | |
Yahoo Japan | Japanese | Japan |
Yongzin | Tibetan | China |
ZipLocal | English | Canada, United States |
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
Computers
Dark Web
Education
General:
- Chegg
- SkilledUp
Academic materials only:
- BASE (search engine)
- ChemRefer
- CiteULike
- Google Scholar
- Library of Congress
Enterprise
- Apache Solr
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise
- Swiftype: Swiftype Search
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
Events
- Tickex (US, UK)
- TickX (UK, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands)
Food and recipes
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Genealogy
- Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Job
- Adzuna (UK)
- CareerBuilder (USA)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Dice.com (USA)
- Glassdoor (USA)
- Indeed (USA)
- JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan, India)
- Monster.com (USA), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Rozee.pk (Pakistan)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
Legal
- Google Scholar
- Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Quicklaw
- WestLaw
Medical
- Bing Health
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- CiteAb (antibody search engine for medical researchers)
- EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine
- Entrez (includes PubMed)
- GenieKnows
- Healia
- Healthline
- Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
- PubGene
- Searchmedica
- WebMD
News
- Bing News
- Google News
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Yahoo! News
People
Real estate/property
- HotPads.com
- Realtor.com
- Redfin
- Rightmove
- StuRents.com
- Trulia
- Zillow
- Zoopla
Television
Video games
- Wazap
By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Maps
- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Nokia Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- Tencent Maps
- Wikiloc
- WikiMapia
- Yahoo! Maps
- Yandex Maps
Multimedia
- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- Tencent Video
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
Price
- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[1])
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- Shopzilla
- SwoopThat.com
- TheFind.com
- TickX
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- BTDigg
- Isohunt
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
Blog
Forum
Question and answer
Human answers
Automatic answers
- AskMeNow
- Wolfram Alpha
By model
Search appliances
- Fabasoft
- Google Search Appliance - discontinued
- Munax
- Searchdaimon
- Thunderstone
Desktop search engines
Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Name | Platform | Remarks | License |
---|---|---|---|
HP Autonomy | Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.[2] | 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 | Major desktop search program. The full trial version downgrades after the trial period automatically to the free version, which is (anno 2018) limited to indexing a maximum of 10.000 files. | Proprietary (30 day trial) |
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 |
GNOME Storage | Linux | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL |
Google Desktop | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. | Freeware |
ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:Desktop search software. | Proprietary (14-day trial) |
Locate32 | Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb | BSD License[3] |
Lookeen | Windows | Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. | Proprietary (14-day trial)[4] |
Nepomuk | Linux | Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. | License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 |
Recoll | Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL [5] |
Spotlight | macOS | 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 [6] |
Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | MPL v1.1[7] |
Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL v2 [8] |
Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[9] | Freeware and commercial |
Unity Dash | Linux | Part of Ubuntu Desktop | GPL v3,[10] LGPL v2.1[11] |
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)[12] |
Child-safe search engines
Metasearch engines
Name | Language |
---|---|
Dogpile | English |
Excite | English |
Info.com | English |
Kayak.com | Multilingual |
Mamma.com | |
MetaCrawler | English |
MetaGer | Multilingual |
Mobissimo | Multilingual |
Otalo.com | English |
Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win | |
Searx | Multilingual |
Skyscanner | Multilingual |
Yippy (formerly Clusty) | English |
Natural language
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- Lexxe
Open-source search engines
- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Searchdaimon
- Searx
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Web search engine
Enterprise search
- Apache Solr
- Elasticsearch[13]
P2P search engines
Name | Language |
---|---|
FAROO | English |
Seeks (open-source) | English |
YaCy (free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual |
Privacy search engines
Social and environmental focus
- Ecosia
Semantic browsing engines
Name | Description | Speciality |
---|---|---|
Evi | Specialises in knowledge base and semantic search | answer engine |
Swoogle | Searching over 10,000 ontologies | Semantic web documents |
Yebol | defunct | |
Yummly | Semantic web search for food, cooking, and recipes | food related |
Social search engines
- ChaCha Search
- Delver
- Eurekster
- Facebook Search
- Mahalo.com
- Rollyo
- SearchTeam
- Sproose
- Trexy
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Visual search engines
- FindFace
- Grokker
- Macroglossa
- Pixsta
- TinEye
- Viewzi
By popularity
Defunct or acquired search engines
- AlltheWeb (acquired by Yahoo!)
- AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
- Bixee.com (India) (acquired by Ibibo)
- Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products)[14]
- BlogScope (acquired by Marketwire)
- (acquired by Answers, Inc.)
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Btjunkie
- Cuil (patents acquired by Google after shutdown)
- DeepPeep
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- (Archived 4 November 1996 at the Wayback Machine, a web and telnet search engine and FTP site specialized to searching for and within United States federal government documents, established in 1992 by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and shut down in 2013)
- Getit Infoservices Private Limited
- Google Answers
- GoPubMed
- hakia
- IBM STAIRS
- Infoseek (acquired by Disney)
- Inktomi
- Ixquick (merged into Startpage)
- Kartoo
- LeapFish
- Lotus Magellan
- MetaLib
- mozDex
- Munax
- Myriad Search
- 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 (acquired by AOL)
- Soso
- Speechbot
- Sphere (acquired by AOL)
- Tafiti (replaced by Microsoft Bing)
- Volunia[15]
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
See also
- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of web directories
- Search aggregator
- Search engine optimization
- Category:Search engine software
References
- ^ Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ "HP Universal Search". Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ "Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100". softpedia.
- ^ "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ According to Recoll
- ^ According to COPYING inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
- ^ "Terrier License". GitHub.
- ^ According to COPYING Archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
- ^ Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Unity on GitHub". GitHub.
- ^ "Required License Files". GitHub.
- ^ "X1 Search 8". X1 Technologies. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ Darrow, Barb (October 13, 2017). "Alibaba Is Adding This Key Technology to Its Growing Cloud". Fortune. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ^ "Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It". 27 March 2015.
- ^ https://news.mrw.it/dominio-volunia-it-vendita_15916.html
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