List of search engines

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For knowing popular web search engines see, see Most popular Internet search eng
ines.
This is a list of search engines, including web search engines, selection-based
search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and ve
rtical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.
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2.6 Email
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2.7 Maps
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2.8 Price
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2.9 Question and answer
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2.9.1 Human answers
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2.9.2 Automatic answers
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2.10 Natural language
3 By model
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3.1 Privacy search engines
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3.2 Open source search engines
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3.3 Semantic browsing engines
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3.4 Social search engines
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3.5 Visual search engines
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3.6 Search appliances
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3.7 Desktop search engines
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3.8 Usenet
4 Based on
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4.1 Google
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4.2 Yahoo!
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4.3 Bing
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4.4 Ask.com
5 Defunct or acquired search engines
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
By content/topic
General
Name
Language
Baidu
Chinese, Japanese
Bing
Multilingual
Blekko
English
DuckDuckGo
Multilingual
Exalead
Multilingual
Gigablast
English
Google
Multilingual
Munax
Multilingual
Qwant
Multilingual
Sogou
Chinese
Soso.com
Chinese
Yahoo!
Multilingual
Yandex

Multilingual
Youdao
Chinese
P2P search engines
Name
Language
FAROO
English
Seeks (Open Source)
English
YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)
Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine
Name
Language
Blingo
English
Yippy (formerly Clusty)
English
DeeperWeb
English
Dogpile
English
Excite
English
Harvester42

Multilingual

HotBot
English
Info.com
English
Ixquick (StartPage)
Multilingual
Kayak and SideStep
Multilingual
Mamma
Metacrawler
English
Mobissimo
Multilingual
Otalo
English
PCH Search and Win
WebCrawler
English
Geographically limited scope
Name
Language
Country
Accoona
Chinese, English
China, United States
Ansearch
English
Australia, United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Biglobe
Japanese
Japan
Daum
Korean Korea
Egerin
Kurdish

Kurdistan
Goo
Japanese
Japan
Guruji.com
India
Leit.is
Iceland
Maktoob
Arab World
Miner.hu
Hungary
Najdi.si
Slovenia
Naver
Korean
Korea
Onkosh
Arab World
Rambler
Russia
Rediff
India
SAPO
Portugal, Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique
Search.ch
Switzerland
Sesam
Norway, Sweden
Seznam
Czech Republic
Walla!
Israel
Yandex.ru
Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
ZipLocal
Canada/United States
Semantic
See also: Semantic search
Search Engine Name
Description
Speciality
Sophia Search Limited
Specialises in auto-tagging of content for semantic search and discovery
search engine
True Knowledge (now Evi)[1]
Specialises in knowledge base and semantic search
answer engine
Yummly
Semantic web search engine for food, cooking and recipes
food related
Swoogle
Searching over 10,000 ontologies
Semantic web ontologies. Indexes over 4
million semantic web documents.
Accountancy
IFACnet
Business
Business.com
Getit Infoservices Private Limited
GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
GlobalSpec
Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
Thomasnet (United States)
Justdial

Computers
Shodan (website)
Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search
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
Swiftype: Swiftype Search
Fashion
Fashion Net
Food/Recipes
RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
Yummly: semantic recipe search
Genealogy
Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Mobile/Handheld
Taganode Local Search Engine
Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
URX: App Search
Job
Main article: Job search engine
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)
Legal
Google Scholar
Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
Manupatra
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
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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
Comfibook
Ex.plode.us
InfoSpace
PeekYou
Spock
Spokeo
Worldwide Helpers
Zabasearch.com
ZoomInfo
Real estate / property
Fizber.com
HotPads.com
Realtor.com
Redfin
Rightmove
Trulia
Zillow.com
Zoopla
StuRents.com
Television
TV Genius
Video Games
Wazap (Japan)
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Omgili
Blog
Amatomu
Bloglines
BlogScope
IceRocket
Munax
Regator
Technorati
Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search
Bing Videos
blinkx
FindSounds
Google Video
Munax's PlayAudioVideo
Picsearch
Pixsta
Podscope
ScienceStage
SeeqPod
Songza
TinEye

TV Genius
Veveo
Yahoo! Video
Source code
Google Code Search
Koders
Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
BTDigg
FlixFlux
Isohunt
Mininova
The Pirate Bay
TorrentSpy
Torrentz
Torrentus
Email