List of search engines
Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases.
By content/topic
General
| Name | Language | Backend ownership |
|---|---|---|
| Ask.com | Multilingual | Google  |
| Baidu | Chinese | Baidu  |
| Brave Search | Multilingual | Brave |
| Dogpile | English | Metasearch engine |
| DuckDuckGo | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Ecosia | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Elasticsearch | Multilingual | Apache 2.0 until 2021, then Elasticsearch |
| Exalead | Multilingual | Cloudview  |
| Excite† | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Gigablast | English | Apache License 2.0 |
| Multilingual | Google | |
| HotBot | English | Microsoft Bing |
| Lycos | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| MetaCrawler | English | Metasearch engine |
| Microsoft Bing | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Mojeek | Multilingual | Mojeek  |
| Opensearch | Multilingual | Apache License 2.0 (Elasticsearch fork) |
| Petal | Multilingual | Huawei |
| Qwant | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Searx | Multilingual | Metasearch engine |
| Sogou | Multilingual | Tencent |
| Startpage | English | Google |
| Swisscows | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| WebCrawler | English | Microsoft Bing |
| YaCy | Multilingual | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Yahoo! Search† | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing |
| Yandex | Multilingual | Yandex  |
| Youdao† | Chinese | NetEase |
| You.com | English | Microsoft Bing |
† Main website is a portal
Geographically localized
| Name | Language | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Accoona | Chinese, English | China, United States |
| Biglobe | Japanese | Japan |
| Daum | Korean | Korea |
| Nate | Korean | Korea |
| Egerin | Kurdish | Kurdistan (Bing backend) |
| 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 |
| Parsijoo | Persian | Iran |
| Pipilika | Bengali, English | Bangladesh |
| Rambler | Russian | Russia |
| Rediff | India | |
| Search.ch | Switzerland | |
| Sesam | Norway, Sweden | |
| Seznam | Czech | Czech Republic |
| Walla! | Israel | |
| Yahoo! Japan | Japanese | Japan (Google backend) |
| Yongzin | Tibetan | China |
| ZipLocal | English | Canada, United States |
Accountancy
- IFACnet
Business
- Business.com
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
Computers
- Shodan (website)
Content
- Openverse, search engine for open content.
Dark web
- Ahmia
- TorSearch
Education
General:
- Chegg
- SkilledUp
Academic materials only:
- BASE (search engine)
- ChemRefer
- CiteULike
- Google Scholar
- Internet Archive Scholar
- Library of Congress
- Semantic Scholar
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 (US)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Dice.com (US)
- Glassdoor (US)
- Indeed (US)
- JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan, India)
- Monster.com (US), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Rozee.pk (Pakistan)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
Legal
- Google Scholar
- Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Quicklaw
- WestLaw
Medical
Mobile/handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine (now defunct)
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search (now defunct)
News
- Bing News
- Google News
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Yahoo! News
People
- FindFace
- PeekYou
- Spokeo
- Zabasearch.com
- ZoomInfo
Real estate/property
- HotPads.com
- Realtor.com
- Redfin
- Rightmove
- StuRents.com
- Trulia
- Zillow
- Zoopla
Television
- TV Genius
Video games
- Wazap
By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Maps
- Baidu Maps
- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Nokia Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- Petal Maps
- Tencent Maps
- Wikiloc
- WikiMapia
- Yahoo! Maps
- Yandex Maps
Multimedia
- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Openverse, search engine for open content.
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- Tencent Video
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
Price
Source code
- Google Code Search
- Koders
- Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- BTDigg
- Isohunt
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
Blog
- Amatomu
- Bloglines
- IceRocket
- Munax
- Regator
- Technorati
Email
- TEK
Forum
- Omgili
Human answers
- Answers.com
- eHow
- Quora
- Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
- Uclue
- wikiHow
- Yahoo! Answers
- Zhihu
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. 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
- Kiddle
- KidRex
- KidzSearch
- QwantJunior
- Swisscows
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 |
| Wego.com | Multilingual |
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
- Openverse
- Recoll
- Searchdaimon
- Searx
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Web search engine
- Gigablast
- Grub
Enterprise search
- Apache Solr
- Elasticsearch[13]
P2P search engines
| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Seeks (open-source) | English |
| YaCy (free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual |
Privacy search engines
- DuckDuckGo
- HotBot
- MetaGer
- Mojeek
- Qwant
- Searx
- Swisscows
- You.com
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
- Sproose
- Trexy
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Visual search engines
- FindFace
- Grokker
- Macroglossa
- Pixsta
- TinEye
- Viewzi
By popularity
Defunct or acquired search engines
| Name | Backend ownership | Demise |
|---|---|---|
| iWon | Ask.com | Shut down after AT&T merger |
| Teoma | Ask.com | Merged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms |
| A9.com | Microsoft Bing | Redirect to Amazon homepage (parent company) |
| AOL | Google until 2015, then Microsoft Bing | Merged to Yahoo! |
| Alexa Internet | Microsoft Bing | Bought by Amazon in 1999, shut down in 2021 |
| Ciao! | Microsoft Bing | Shut down in 2018 |
| Ms. Dewey | Microsoft Bing | January 2009 |
| Groovle | Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity | |
| MySpace Search | Function taken over by Google in 2006 | |
| Mystery Seeker | Novelty "search"; went offline in 2017 | |
| Netscape | Now redirects to AOL | |
| Ripple | as of 2017 at the latest | |
| Ecocho | Google, then Yahoo! | |
| Forestle | Google, then Yahoo! | Redirected to Ecosia in 2011 |
| Rectifi | Yahoo! | |
| Yippy | IBM Watson | Redirected to DuckDuckGo in 2021 |
| Grams | Grams (anonymous owner) | Closed in 2017 |
- 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)
- 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)
- Jubii
- 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)
- Startpage (acquired by System1, an advertising company)
- 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". Archived from the original on 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- "Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100". softpedia. 20 August 2012.
- "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- According to Recoll
- According to COPYING inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
- "Terrier License". GitHub. 13 November 2021.
- According to COPYING Archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
- "Retrieved 15 August 2015". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- "Unity on GitHub". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
- "Required License Files". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
- "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.
- "Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita". MRW.it News.
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