List of search engines

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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.

## Contents

* 1 By content/topic
* 1.1 General
* 1.2 Geographically localized
* 1.3 Accountancy
* 1.4 Business
* 1.5 Computers
* 1.6 Content
* 1.7 Dark web
* 1.8 Education
* 1.9 Enterprise
* 1.10 Events
* 1.11 Food and recipes
* 1.12 Genealogy
* 1.13 Job
* 1.14 Legal
* 1.15 Medical
* 1.16 Mobile/handheld
* 1.17 News
* 1.18 People
* 1.19 Real estate/property
* 1.20 Television
* 1.21 Travel
* 1.22 Video
* 1.23 Video games
* 2 By data type
* 2.1 Datasets
* 2.2 Maps
* 2.3 Multimedia
* 2.4 Price
* 2.5 Source code
* 2.6 BitTorrent
* 2.7 Blog
* 3 By model
* 3.1 Search appliances
* 3.2 Desktop search engines
* 3.3 Child-safe search engines
* 3.4 Metasearch engines
* 3.5 Natural language
* 3.6 Open-source search engines
* 3.6.1 Web search engine
* 3.6.2 Enterprise search
* 3.7 P2P search engines
* 3.8 Privacy search engines
* 3.9 Social and environmental focus
* 3.10 Semantic browsing engines
* 3.11 Social search engines
* 3.12 Usenet
* 3.13 Visual search engines
* 4 By popularity
* 5 Defunct or acquired search engines
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## 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  | Multiple
Ecosia | Multilingual  | Google and Microsoft Bing
Elasticsearch | Multilingual | Elasticsearch
Exalead | Multilingual  | Cloudview
Excite† | Multilingual  | Microsoft Bing
Google | Multilingual  | Google
HotBot | English  | Microsoft Bing
Kagi | English  | Metasearch engine and Kagi
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
Presearch | Multilingual  | Presearch
Qwant | Multilingual  | Microsoft Bing
SearXNG | Multilingual  | Metasearch engine
Sogou | Multilingual  | Tencent
Startpage | English  | Google
Swisscows | Multilingual  | Microsoft Bing
WebCrawler | English  | Microsoft Bing
YaCy | Multilingual | GNU GPL-2.0-or-later
Yahoo! Search† | Multilingual  | Microsoft Bing
Yandex | Multilingual  | Yandex
Yep  | English  | Yep
Youdao† | Chinese | NetEase
You.com | English  | Microsoft Bing
† Main website is a portal

Open source

### Geographically localized

Name | Language | Country

|
|

Accoona | Chinese, English | China, United States
BIGLOBE | Japanese | Japan
Daum | Korean | Korea
Nate | Korean | Korea
Egerin | Kurdish | Sweden[1][2][3]
Fireball | German, English | Germany
Goo | Japanese | Japan
Leit.is | Icelandic, English | Iceland
Najdi.si | Slovenian | Slovenia
Naver | Korean | Korea
Parsijoo | Persian | Iran
Pipilika (defunct) | Bengali, English | Bangladesh
Rambler | Russian | Russia
Rediff |  | India
SAPO | Portuguese | Portugal
Search.ch |  | Switzerland
Sesam (defunct) |  | 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
* Daily Stocks
* GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
* GlobalSpec
* Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
* Thomasnet (United States)
* Justdial (India)

### Computers

* Shodan (website)

### Content

* Openverse, search engine for open content.

### Dark web

Main article: Dark web

* Ahmia

### Education

General:

* Chegg

Academic materials only:

* BASE (search engine)
* 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
* Zoho

### 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)
* Yahoo! HotJobs (Country-wise subdomains, International)

### Legal

* Google Patents
* 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
* Healia
* Healthline
* Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
* PubGene
* Searchmedica
* WebMD

### Mobile/handheld

* Taganode Local Search Engine (now defunct)
* Taptu: taptu mobile/social search (now defunct)

### News

* Bing News
* Google News
* Dailyhunt (India)
* Priyo
* Yahoo! News

### People

* Whitepages
* FindFace
* PeekYou
* Spokeo
* Zabasearch.com
* ZoomInfo

### Real estate/property

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

### Television

* TV Genius

### Travel

* Bustripping

### Video

* Sepia Search

### Video games

* Wazap

## By data type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

### Datasets

* Google Dataset Search

### Maps

* Baidu Maps
* Bing Maps
* Géoportail
* Google Maps
* MapQuest
* Nokia Maps
* OpenStreetMap
* Petal Maps
* Qwant Maps (defunct)
* Tencent Maps
* Wikiloc
* WikiMapia
* Yahoo! Maps
* Yandex Maps
* MapmyIndia

### Multimedia

* Bing Videos
* blinkx
* FindSounds
* Google Images
* Google Video
* Munax's PlayAudioVideo
* Openverse, search engine for open content.
* Picsearch
* Podscope
* SeeqPod
* Sepia Search
* Songza
* Tencent Video
* TinEye
* TV Genius
* Veveo
* Yahoo! Video

### Price

* Bing Shopping
* Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[4])
* Kelkoo
* MySimon
* PriceGrabber
* PriceRunner
* Pronto.com
* Shopping.com
* Shopzilla
* TickX

### Source code

* Google Code Search
* Koders
* Krugle

### BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

* BTDigg
* Isohunt - discontinued
* Mininova - discontinued
* The Pirate Bay
* TorrentSpy - discontinued
* Torrentz - discontinued

### Blog

* Amatomu
* Bloglines
* IceRocket
* Marginalia
* Mojeek (substack only)
* Munax
* Regator
* Technorati

## By model

### Search appliances

Main article: Software:Search appliance

* 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.[5] | Proprietary, commercial
Beagle | Linux | Open-source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009.  | Mix of X11/MIT, Apache
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
dtSearch Desktop | Windows |  | Proprietary (30 day trial)
Everything | Windows | Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes  | Freeware
Found  | macOS | Searches for files stored locally, and the cloud and inbox and, is summoned with a double-tap of the ctrl key. Program now discontinued.  | Free, proprietary
GNOME Storage | Linux | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux  | GPL
Google Desktop | Linux, macOS, Windows | Integrates with main Google search engine page; discontinued by Google September 14, 2011  | Freeware
ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:Desktop search software  | Proprietary (14-day trial)
KRunner  | Linux |  |
Locate32 | Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb  | BSD[6]
Lookeen | Windows | Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine.  | Proprietary (14-day trial)[7]
Nepomuk | Linux | Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward.  | Mix of SA 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation v1.2
Recoll | Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux  | GPL[8]
Spotlight | macOS | Found in Apple macOS "Tiger" and later OS X releases.  | Proprietary
Strigi | Linux, Unix, Solaris, macOS, Windows | Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02[9].  | LGPL v2[10]
Terrier Search Engine | Linux, macOS, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, Unix/Linux.  | Mozilla Public v1.1[11]
Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux  | GPL v2[12]
Tropes Zoom  | Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[13] | Freeware and commercial
Unity Dash | Linux | Was part of Ubuntu Desktop  | GPL v3,[14] LGPL v2.1[15]
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 x86-64 systems.  | Proprietary
X1 Desktop Search  | Windows | Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search  | Proprietary (14-day trial)[16]
Wumpus  | Cross platform  | Desktop search focused on information retrieval research  | GPL

### Child-safe search engines

* Kiddle
* KidRex
* KidzSearch
* QwantJunior
* Swisscows

### Metasearch engines

Main article: Software:Metasearch engine

Name | Language

|

Dogpile | English
Excite | English
Info.com | English
Kayak.com | Multilingual
MetaCrawler | English
MetaGer | Multilingual
Mobissimo | Multilingual
Otalo.com | English
PCH Search and Win |
SearXNG | Multilingual
Skyscanner | Multilingual
Wego.com | Multilingual

### Natural language

* Ask.com
* Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
* Lexxe
* Perplexity.ai
* SearchGPT

### Open-source search engines

* ht://Dig
* Isearch
* Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
* Lucene
* mnoGoSearch
* Nutch
* Openverse
* Recoll
* Searchdaimon
* SearXNG
* Seeks
* Sphinx
* SWISH-E
* Terrier Search Engine
* Xapian
* YaCy
* Zettair

#### Web search engine

* Gigablast
* Grub

#### Enterprise search

Further information: Enterprise search

### P2P search engines

Name | Language

|

Seeks (open-source) | English
YaCy (free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual

### Privacy search engines

See also: Search engine privacy

* Brave Search
* DuckDuckGo
* HotBot
* Kagi
* MetaGer
* Mojeek
* Presearch
* Qwant
* SearXNG
* Startpage.com
* Swisscows
* You.com
* Epic (web browser)

### Social and environmental focus

* Ecosia

### Semantic browsing engines

See also: Semantic search

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

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

* ChaCha Search
* Delver
* Eurekster
* Facebook Search
* Mahalo.com
* Rollyo
* Sproose
* Trexy

### Usenet

* Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

### Visual search engines

Main article: Software:Visual search engine

* FindFace
* Grokker
* Macroglossa
* TinEye
* Viewzi

## By popularity

## Defunct or acquired search engines

Name | Backend ownership | Demise

|
|

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 | Google | Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity
Mamma.com  | Copernic |
MySpace Search | Google | Function taken over by Google in 2006
Mystery Seeker | Google | Novelty "search"; went offline in 2017
Netscape | Google | Now redirects to AOL
Ripple | Google | as of 2017 at the latest
Ecocho | Google, then Yahoo! |
Forestle | Google, then Yahoo! | Redirected to Ecosia in 2011
Searx | open-source  | SearXNG is defacto successor
Yippy | IBM Watson | Re-branded in 2023 as Togoda.com[17][18]
Grams | Grams (anonymous owner)  | Closed in 2017
Gigablast | English | Website went offline in 2023, as reported by Mojeek.[19]

* 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)[20]
* 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
* Neeva (acquired by Snowflake)
* 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[21]
* Wikia Search
* WiseNut
* World Wide Web Worm

## See also

* List of academic databases and search engines
* Software:List of web directories - None
* Software:Search aggregator
* Search engine optimization - Practice and strategies of increasing online visibility
* Category:Search engine software

## References

1. ↑ "Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
2. ↑ "First Kurdish Search Engine, Egerin, Is Launched". SBWire. 30 December 2013. http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/egerin/sbwire-421932.htm. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
3. ↑ "This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google" (in en). 18 March 2016. https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-kurdish-entrepreneur-making-a-google-for-the-kurds/.
4. ↑ Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!". Search Engine Land. https://searchengineland.com/goodbye-froogle-hello-google-product-search-11001.
5. ↑ "HP Universal Search". http://www.autonomy.com/products/universal-search.
6. ↑ "Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100". 20 August 2012. https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml.
7. ↑ "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. https://www.lookeen.com/.
8. ↑ According to Recoll
9. ↑ See "Strigi's Release Files". https://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/files/. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
10. ↑ COPYING inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
11. ↑ "Terrier License". 13 November 2021. https://github.com/terrier-org/terrier-core/blob/4.2/LICENSE.txt.
12. ↑ According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
13. ↑ "Retrieved 15 August 2015". http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm.
14. ↑ "Unity on GitHub". 19 November 2021. https://github.com/ubports/unity8/blob/xenial/COPYING.
15. ↑ "Required License Files". 19 November 2021. https://github.com/ubports/unity8/blob/xenial/COPYING.LGPL.
16. ↑ "X1 Search 8". X1 Technologies. https://www.x1.com/products/x1-search/.
17. ↑ "At Togoda, we are revolutionizing the search experience through advanced thematic AI exploration. | Togoda AI Search Engine" (in en). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/togoda-ai-search-engine-732691266_at-togoda-we-are-revolutionizing-the-search-activity-7302778963427274752-TyfK.
18. ↑ "Togoda Search Engine - The Educated Choice for Search." (in en). https://togoda.com/.
19. ↑ "Farewell Gigablast (for now?)" (in en). https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/05/farewell-gigablast.html.
20. ↑ "Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It". 27 March 2015. http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html.
21. ↑ "Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita". 11 April 2014. https://news.mrw.it/dominio-volunia-it-vendita_15916.html.

## External links

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Web search engines

Active|

* AOL
* Ahmia
* Ask.com
* Baidu
* Bing
* Blackle
* Dogpile
* DuckDuckGo
* Ecosia
* Exalead
* Excite
* Fireball
* GenieKnows
* Gigablast
* Google
* HotBot
* Info.com
* Kiddle
* KidRex
* KidzSearch
* Lycos
* MetaGer
* Mojeek
* Naver
* Qwant
* Parsijoo
* SAPO
* Searx
* Seznam.cz
* Sogou
* Sputnik
* Startpage
* Swisscows
* WebCrawler
* YaCy
* Yahoo!
* Yandex
* Yippy
* Yooz
* Youdao

Inactive|

* 123people
* A9.com
* Aliweb
* AlltheWeb
* AltaVista
* Blekko
* Boogami
* Cuil
* Empas
* Forestle
* Go.com
* Infoseek
* Inktomi
* Ixquick
* JumpStation
* LeapFish
* Mugurdy
* Northern Light
* Powerset
* Scroogle
* SearchMe
* Soso
* Teoma
* Viewzi
* Vivisimo
* Volunia
* W3Catalog
* Wikiseek
* Yebol

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