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 |
Qwant* | Multilingual |
Searx*** | Multilingual |
Sogou | Chinese |
Soso | Chinese |
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 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!
Mobile/handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Geographically localized
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
Computers
Education
General:
Academic materials only:
Enterprise
- Apache Solr
- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise
- SimilarWeb[1]
- Swiftype: Swiftype Search
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
Food/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 and India)
- Monster.com (USA), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Rozee.pk (Pakistan)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
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
- Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)
- Searchmedica
- WebMD
News
- Bing News
- Google News
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Yahoo! News
People
Real estate/property
Television
Video games
By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Maps
Multimedia
Price
- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[2])
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- Shopzilla
- SwoopThat.com
- TheFind.com
- TickX
Source code
- codeseek.com
- Google Code Search
- Koders
- Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Email
Forum
Question and answer
Human answers
Automatic answers
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 |
---|---|---|---|
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 | 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[4] |
Lookeen | Windows | Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. | Proprietary (14-day trial)[5] |
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 [6] |
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 [7] |
Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | MPL v1.1[8] |
Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL v2 [9] |
Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[10] | Freeware and commercial |
Unity Dash | Linux | Part of Ubuntu Desktop | GPL v3,[11] LGPL v2.1[12] |
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)[13] |
Child-safe search engines
Metasearch engines
Name | Language |
---|---|
Dogpile | English |
Excite | English |
Info.com | English |
Kayak.com | Multilingual |
Mamma.com | |
Metacrawler | English |
Mobissimo | Multilingual |
Otalo.com | English |
Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win | |
Searx | Multilingual |
Skyscanner | Multilingual |
Yippy (formerly Clusty) | English |
Open source search engines
Enterprise search
P2P search engines
Name | Language |
---|---|
FAROO | English |
Seeks (open source) | English |
YaCy (free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual |
Privacy search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- HotBot
- MetaGer
- Mojeek
- PrivacyWall.org
- Qwant
- Searx
- Startpage.com
- Swisscows
Social and environmental focus
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
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
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)[15]
- BlogScope (acquired by Marketwire)
- Brainboost (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)
- 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)
- Speechbot
- Sphere (acquired by AOL)
- Tafiti (replaced by Microsoft Bing)
- Volunia[16]
- 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
- "SimilarWeb". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- 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.
- According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
- "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- According to Recoll
- According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
- "Terrier License". GitHub.
- According to COPYING Archived 2012-07-14 at Archive.today in SVN trunk.
- According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm. 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.
- 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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