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.
By content/topic
General
- Ask.com (known as Ask Jeeves in the UK)
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
- Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)
- Cuil
- Duck Duck Go
- Kosmix
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Yodao (Chinese)
- Yahoo! Search
- Yandex (Russian)
- Yebol
Geographical limited scope
- Accoona, China/US
- Alleba, Philippines
- Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
- Daum, Korea
- Goo, Japan
- Guruji.com, India
- Leit.is, Iceland
- Maktoob, Arab World
- Onkosh, Arab World
- Miner.hu, Hungary
- Najdi.si, Slovenia
- Naver, Korea
- Rambler, Russia
- Rediff, India
- SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
- Search.ch, Switzerland
- Sesam, Norway, Sweden
- Seznam, Czech Republic
- Walla!, Israel
- Yandex, Russia
- ZipLocal, Canada/US
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search
- AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
- Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
- Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
- dtSearch: dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web
- Endeca: Information Access Platform
- Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
- Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
- Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition
- ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
- Northern Light
- Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- SAP: TREX
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
- Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
- X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
- ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform
Mobile/Handheld
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Job
Main articles: Job search engine and Employment website
See also: Category:Job search engines
- 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)
Legal
Medical
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- Entrez (includes Pubmed)
- EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine
- GenieKnows
- GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
- Healia
- Searchmedica
- WebMD
- PubGene
- Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
- VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
News
People
Real 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
- Songza
- SeeqPod
- Veveo
- TinEye
- Yahoo! Video
- YouTube
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Maps
Price
- Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
- Kelkoo
- MSN Shopping
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Shopping.com
- ShopWiki
- Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
- TheFind.com
- Wishabi
Question and answer
Human answers
Automatic answers
See also: Question answering
Natural language
See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search
By model
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Egothor
- Grub
- Ht://dig
- Isearch
- Lucene
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- mnoGoSearch
- Namazu
- Nutch
- OpenFTS
- Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Wikia Search
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
- ChaCha Search
- Delver
- EarthFrisk.org
- Eurekster
- Mahalo.com
- OneRiot
- Rollyo
- Sproose
- Trexy
- Wikia search
- Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback
Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine
- Brainboost
- ChunkIt!
- Clusty
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick
- Kayak
- LeapFish
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- MetaLib
- Mobissimo
- Myriad Search
- SideStep
- Turbo10
- WebCrawler
- DeeperWeb
Visual search engines
Search appliances
- Google: Google Search Appliance
Desktop search engines
See also: Desktop search
| Autonomy | Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. |
| Beagle | Linux | Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene |
| Copernic Desktop Search | Windows | Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark study. |
| Docco | cross-platform (Java) | Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and it requires a Java Runtime Environment. |
| Docfetcher | Cross-platform | Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene |
| dtSearch Desktop | Windows | |
| Easyfind | Mac OS | |
| Google Desktop | Linux, Mac OS, Windows | Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. |
| GNOME Storage | Linux | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
| imgSeek | Linux, Mac OS, Windows | Desktop content-based image search |
| InSight Desktop Search | Windows | Metadata-based search utility |
| ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:desktop search software. |
| Meta Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
| Recoll | Linux, Unix | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
| Spotlight | Mac OS | Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. |
| Strigi | Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows | Cross-platform open source desktop search engine |
| Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. |
| Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine. |
| 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. |
| X1 Professional Client | Windows | Formerly Yahoo Desktop Search, then X1 Desktop Search, then X1 Enterprise Client |
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Based on
Yahoo!
- AltaVista
- AlltheWeb
- Ecocho
- Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests - formerly based on Google)
- GoodSearch
- Rectifi
Bing
Ask.com
Acquired or defunct search engines
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- Google Answers
- Infoseek
- Inktomi
- Kartoo
- Lotus Magellan
- Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
- PubSub
- Singingfish
- Sphere
- Tafiti
- Teoma
- Wikia Search
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
See also
- Academic databases and search engines
- List of web directories
- Search aggregator
- Search engine optimization
- Category:Search engine software
References
- "Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools". http://www.uwebi.org/reports/desktop_search.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- According to SourceForge project page
- According to COPYING in SVN trunk on SourceForge.
- According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
- According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
