List of search engines

This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web 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

*Alexa Internet
*Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
*Baidu (Chinese)
*Cuil
*Exalead (French)
*Google
*Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
*Sogou (Chinese)
*Sohu (Chinese)
*Wikia Search
*Yahoo! Search

Geographical limited scope

*Accoona, China/US
*Alleba, Philippines
*Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
*Araby, Middle East
*Baidu, China
*Daum, Korea
*Guruji.com, India
*Goo (search engine), Japan
*Leit.is, Iceland
*Miner.hu, Hungary
*Najdi.si, Slovenia
*Naver, Korea
*Onkosh, Middle East
*Rambler, Russia
*Rediff, India
*SAPO, Portugal
*Search.ch, Switzerland
*Sesam, Norway, Sweden
*Walla!, Israel
*Yandex, Russia
*ZipLocal, Canada/US

Accountancy

*IFACnet

Business

*Business.com
*Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
*Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise

*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
*ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
*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
*ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

earch Appliances

*Google: Google Search Appliance

Job

*Bixee.com (India)
*CareerBuilder.com (USA)
*Craigslist (by city)
*Eluta.ca (Canada)
*Hotjobs.com (USA)
*Incruit (Korea)
*Indeed.com (USA)
*Monster.com (USA)
*Recruit.net (International)
*SimplyHired.com (USA)
*TheLadders.com (USA)

Legal

*WestLaw
*Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
*Quicklaw

Medical

*Bioinformatic Harvester
*Entrez (includes Pubmed)
*EB-eye EBI's Search Engine 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)

News

*Google News
*Daylife
*MagPortal
*Newslookup
*Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
*Topix.net
*Yahoo! News

People

*PeekYou
*Ex.plode.us
*InfoSpace
*Spock (website)
*Spokeo
*Wink
*Zabasearch.com
*ZoomInfo

Real property

*Fizber.com
*Home.co.uk
*HotPads.com
*Properazzi
*Rightmove
*Zillow.com

Video Games

*GenieKnows
*Wazap

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

*Omgili

Blog

*Amatomu
*Bloglines
*BlogScope
*IceRocket
*Sphere
*Technorati

Multimedia

*blinkx
*FindSounds
*Picsearch
*Podscope
*SeeqPod
*Veveo
*YouTube
*Pixsta

ource code

* Google Code Search
* JExamples
* Koders
* Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
*Btjunkie
* Demonoid
*FlixFlux
*Isohunt
*Mininova
*The Pirate Bay
*TorrentSpy

Email

*Nicado
*TEK

Maps

*Géoportail
*Google Maps
*MapQuest
*Live Search Maps
*Yahoo! Maps

Price

*Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
*Kelkoo
*MSN Shopping
*MySimon
*PriceGrabber
*PriceRunner
*Shopping.com
*ShopWiki
*Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
*TheFind.com

Question and answer

*Answers.com
*AskMeNow
*BrainBoost
*eHow
*hakia
*Lexxe
*Lycos iQ
*Powerset
*Live Search QnA
*Uclue
*Yahoo! Answers

By model

Open source search engines

*DataparkSearch
*Egothor
*Gonzui
*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

ocial search engines

*ChaCha Search
*Eurekster
*Mahalo.com
*Rollyo
*Trexy
*Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines

*Brainboost
* ChunkIt!
*Clusty
*Dogpile
*Excite
*Harvester42
*HotBot
*Info.com
*Ixquick
*Kayak
*Mamma
*Metacrawler
*MetaLib
*Mobissimo
*Myriad Search
*SideStep
*Turbo10
*WebCrawler

Visual search engines

* ChunkIt!
*Grokker
*Kartoo
*Pixsta
*PubGene

Desktop search engines

"See also [http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Comparison_of_desktop_search_software Comparison of desktop search software] "

Usenet

*Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on

Google

*AOL Search
*CompuServe Search
*MySpace Search
*Netscape
*Ripple

Yahoo!

*AltaVista
*AlltheWeb
*GoodSearch
*Rectifi

Live Search

*A9.com
*Tafiti
*Ms. Dewey

Ask.com

*Hakia (semantic search)
*iWon
*Lycos

Defunct search engines

*BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
*Google Answers
*Infoseek
*Inktomi
*Lotus Magellan
*Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
*PubSub
*Singingfish
*Teoma
*WiseNut
*World Wide Web Worm
*Excite (now a metasearch)
*WebCrawler (now a metasearch)

ee also

*Academic databases and search engines
*List of web directories
*Search aggregator
*Search engine optimization
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References

External links

*dmoz|Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/|Search Engines