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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.

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Based on Ask.com
  • Hakia (semantic search)
  • iWon
  • Lycos
  • Teoma
    • Based on Bing
  • A9.com
  • AOL, from 2015
  • Alexa Internet
  • Ciao!
  • Facebook
  • Ms. Dewey
  • Egerin
    • Based on Google
  • AOL Search, until 2015.
  • CompuServe Search
  • Groovle
  • MySpace Search
  • Mystery Seeker
  • Netscape
  • Ripple
  • BOL
    • 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

    • Darknet

  • Ahmia
  • Grams
  • TorSearch

    • Mobile/handheld

  • Taganode Local Search Engine
  • Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
  • URX: App Search

    • Accountancy

  • IFACnet

    • Business

  • Business.com
  • Getit Infoservices Private Limited
  • GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
  • GlobalSpec
  • Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Majestic Search Engine
  • Thomasnet (United States)

    • Computers

  • Shodan (website)

    • Education

    General:

  • Chegg
  • Noodle Education
  • SkilledUp

    • Academic materials only:

  • BASE (search engine)
  • CiteULike
  • Google Scholar
  • Library of Congress

    • Enterprise

  • 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
  • SimilarWeb
  • Swiftype: Swiftype Search

    • Food/recipes

  • RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
  • Yummly: semantic recipe search

    • Genealogy

  • Mocavo.com: family history search engine

    • Job

  • Adzuna (UK)
  • Bixee.com (India)
  • CareerBuilder.com (USA)
  • Craigslist (by city)
  • Dice.com (USA)
  • Eluta.ca (Canada)
  • Hotjobs.com (USA)
  • JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan and India)
  • Incruit (Korea)
  • Indeed.com (USA)
  • Glassdoor.com (USA)
  • LinkUp.com (USA)
  • Monster.com (USA), (India)
  • Naukri.com (India)
  • Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
  • 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
  • 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

  • Bing News
  • Daylife
  • Google News
  • MagPortal
  • Newslookup
  • Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Topix.net
  • Trapit
  • Yahoo! News

    • People

  • Ex.plode.us
  • FindFace
  • InfoSpace
  • PeekYou
  • Spock
  • Spokeo
  • Zabasearch.com
  • ZoomInfo

    • Real estate/property

  • HotPads.com
  • Realtor.com
  • Redfin
  • Rightmove
  • Trulia
  • Zillow.com
  • Zoopla
  • StuRents.com

    • Television

  • TV Genius

    • Video Games

  • Wazap (Japan)

    • Maps

  • Bing Maps
  • Géoportail
  • Google Maps
  • MapQuest
  • Nokia Maps
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Wikiloc
  • WikiMapia
  • Yahoo! Maps

    • Multimedia

  • Bing Videos
  • blinkx
  • FindSounds
  • Google Video
  • Munax's PlayAudioVideo
  • Picsearch
  • Pixsta
  • Podscope
  • ScienceStage
  • SeeqPod
  • Songza
  • TinEye
  • TV Genius
  • Veveo
  • Yahoo! Video

    • 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

    • Source code

  • Google Code Search
  • Koders
  • Krugle

    • Search appliances

    Search appliance

  • Google Search Appliance
  • Fabasoft
  • Munax
  • Searchdaimon
  • Thunderstone

    • Desktop search engines

    Desktop search

    Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

    Metasearch engines

    Metasearch engine

    Natural language

  • Ask.com
  • Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
  • hakia
  • Lexxe

    • Open source search engines

  • Gigablast
  • Grub
  • ht://Dig
  • Isearch
  • Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
  • Lucene
  • mnoGoSearch
  • Namazu
  • Nutch
  • Recoll
  • Searchdaimon
  • Seeks
  • Sphinx
  • SWISH-E
  • Terrier Search Engine
  • Xapian
  • YaCy
  • Zettair

    • Privacy search engines

  • DuckDuckGo
  • Ixquick (StartPage)

    • Social and environmental focus

  • Ecosia

    • Semantic browsing engines

  • Hakia
  • Yebol

    • Social search engines

  • ChaCha Search
  • Delver
  • Eurekster
  • Mahalo.com
  • Rollyo
  • SearchTeam
  • Sproose
  • Trexy

    • Usenet

  • Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

    • Visual search engines

    Visual search engine

  • ChunkIt!
  • FindFace
  • Grokker
  • Pixsta
  • PubGene
  • TinEye
  • Viewzi
  • Macroglossa

    • By venue type

    Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

    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
  • Ask Me Help Desk
  • DeeperWeb
  • eHow
  • Quora
  • Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
  • Uclue
  • wikiHow
  • Yahoo! Answers

    • Automatic answers

  • AskMeNow
  • BrainBoost
  • True Knowledge
  • Wolfram Alpha

    • Defunct or acquired search engines

  • AlltheWeb
  • AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
  • Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products)
  • BlogScope
  • 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
  • Volunia
  • Wikia Search (defunct)
  • WiseNut
  • World Wide Web Worm

    • References

    List of search engines Wikipedia
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