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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.

By content/topic

General

Name Language
Baidu Chinese
Bing Multilingual
DuckDuckGo Multilingual
Ecosia* Multilingual
Exalead Multilingual
Gigablast English
Google Multilingual
Munax Multilingual
Qwant Multilingual
Sogou Chinese
Soso.com Chinese
Yahoo!* Multilingual
Yandex Multilingual
Youdao Chinese

* Powered by Bing

Based on

Based on Ask.com
Based on Bing
Based on Google
Based on Yahoo!
  • Ecocho
  • Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)
  • Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests – formerly based on Google)
  • Rectifi

Dark Web

Mobile/handheld

Semantic

See also: Semantic search
Name Description Speciality
Evi Specialises in knowledge base and semantic search answer engine
Yummly Semantic web search for food, cooking and recipes food related
Swoogle Searching over 10,000 ontologies Semantic web documents

Accountancy

Business

Computers

Education

General:

Academic materials only:

Enterprise

See also: Enterprise search

Events

Food/recipes

Genealogy

Geographically limited scope

Name Language Country
Accoona Chinese, English China, United States
Biglobe Japanese Japan
Daum Korean Korea
Egerin Kurdish Kurdistan
Goo Japanese Japan
Leit.is Iceland
Maktoob Arab World
Miner.hu Hungary
Najdi.si Slovenia
Naver Korean Korea
Pipilika Bangladesh
Rambler Russia
Rediff India
SAPO Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique
Search.ch Switzerland
Sesam Norway, Sweden
Seznam Czech Republic
Walla! Israel
Yandex Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
ZipLocal Canada, United States

Job

Main article: Job search engine

Medical

News

People

Real estate/property

Television

Video Games

By data type

Maps

Multimedia

See also: Multimedia search

Price

Source code

By model

Search appliances

Search appliance

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
Google Desktop Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. Freeware
GNOME Storage Linux Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL
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 Major Microsoft Windows search product. 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
Tracker Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [6]
Recoll Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL [7]
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 [8]
Terrier Search Engine Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1[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]

Metasearch engines

Main article: Metasearch engine
Name Language
DeeperWeb English
Dogpile English
Excite English
HotBot English
Info.com English
Ixquick (StartPage) Multilingual
Kayak and SideStep Multilingual
Mamma
Metacrawler English
Mobissimo Multilingual
Otalo English
PCH Search and Win
Searx Multilingual
Skyscanner Multilingual
WebCrawler English
Yippy (formerly Clusty) English

Natural language

See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search

Open source search engines

P2P search engines

Name Language
FAROO English
Seeks (Open Source) English
YaCy (Free and fully decentralized) Multilingual

Privacy search engines

Social and environmental focus

Semantic browsing engines

Social search engines

See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine

Usenet

Visual search engines

Main article: Visual search engine

By popularity

Main article: List of search engines by popularity

By venue type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Blog

Email

Forum

Question and answer

Main article: List of question-and-answer websites

Human answers

Automatic answers

See also: Question answering

Defunct or acquired search engines

See also

References

  1. ^ "SimilarWeb". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  3. ^ "HP Universal Search". Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  4. ^ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
  5. ^ "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  6. ^ According to COPYING Archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
  7. ^ According to Recoll
  8. ^ According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
  9. ^ "Terrier License". GitHub.
  10. ^ According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Unity on GitHub". GitHub.
  12. ^ "Required License Files". GitHub.
  13. ^ "X1 Search 8". X1 Technologies. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  14. ^ "Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It". 27 March 2015.
  15. ^ 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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