List of Search Engines

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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.
By content/topic

General

Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
Bing
Blekko
Google
Sogou (Chinese)
Soso.com (Chinese)
Volunia
WireDoo
Yahoo!
Yandex.com (Russian)
Yebol
Yodao (Chinese)


P2P search engines

FAROO
Seeks (Open Source)
YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)


Metasearch engines


Brainboost (Public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.)
ChunkIt! (Public engine no longer exists)
Yippy (formerly Clusty)
DeeperWeb
Dogpile
Excite
Harvester42
HotBot
Info.com
Ixquick
Kayak
LeapFish (no longer a search engine)
Mamma
Metacrawler
MetaLib (Not a public search engine)
Mobissimo
Myriad Search (No longer exists)
SideStep
WebCrawler
Crawler.com


Geographically limited scope

Accoona, China/United States
Alleba, Philippines
Ansearch, Australia/United States/United Kingdom/New Zealand
Biglobe, Japan
Daum, Korea
Goo, Japan
Guruji.com, India
Leit.is, Iceland
Maktoob, Arab World
Miner.hu, Hungary
Najdi.si, Slovenia
Naver, 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
Yehey!, Philippines
ZipLocal, Canada/United States


Accountancy

IFACnet


Business

Business.com
GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
GlobalSpec
Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
Thomasnet (United States)
Justdial


Enterprise


AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
Coveo: Coveo Enterprise Search platform, Coveo Expresso
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
IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition
Inbenta: Inbenta Semantic Search Engine
ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
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
X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform


Food/Recipes

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


Mobile/Handheld

Taganode Local Search Engine
Taptu: taptu mobile/social search


Job


Bixee.com (India)
CareerBuilder.com (USA)
Craigslist (by city)
Dice.com (USA)
Eluta.ca (Canada)
Hotjobs.com (USA)
Incruit (Korea)
Indeed.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
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
VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
WebMD


News

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


People

Comfibook
Ex.plode.us
InfoSpace
PeekYou
Spock
Spokeo
Wink
Worldwide Helpers
Zabasearch.com
ZoomInfo


Real estate / property

Fizber.com
HotPads.com
Realtor.com
Redfin
Rightmove
Zillow.com


Television

TV Genius


Video Games

Wazap (Japan)


By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum

Omgili


Blog

Amatomu
IceRocket (Defunct)
Regator
Technorati


Multimedia


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


Source code

Google Code Search
JExamples
Koders
Krugle


BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

FlixFlux
Isohunt
Mininova
The Pirate Bay
TorrentSpy
Torrentz


Email

Lookeen
TEK


Maps

Bing Maps
Géoportail
Google Maps
MapQuest
Nokia_Maps
OpenStreetMap
WikiMapia
Yahoo! Maps


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
Wishabi


Question and answer

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


Natural language


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


By model

Privacy search engines

DuckDuckGo
Scroogle Scraper


Open source search engines

DataparkSearch
Egothor
Grub
ht://Dig
Isearch
Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
Lucene
mnoGoSearch
MozDex
Namazu
Nutch
Recoll
Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
Seeks
Sphinx
SWISH-E
Terrier Search Engine
Wikia Search
Xapian
YaCy
Zettair


Semantic browsing engines

Hakia
Yebol


Social search engines


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


Visual search engines

ChunkIt!
Grokker
Pixsta
PubGene
TinEye
Viewzi
Macroglossa


Search appliances

Google: Google Search Appliance


Usenet

Google Groups (formerly Deja News)


Based on

Google

AOL Search
CompuServe Search
Groovle
MySpace Search
Netscape
Ripple


Yahoo!

AltaVista
Ecocho
Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)
Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests - formerly based on Google)
GoodSearch
Rectifi


Bing

A9.com
Alexa Internet
Ciao!
Ecosia
Facebook
Ms. Dewey
Yahoo! Search


Ask.com

Hakia (semantic search)
iWon
Lycos
Teoma


Acquired or defunct search engines

AlltheWeb
BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
Btjunkie
Cuil
Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
Google Answers
IBM STAIRS
Infoseek
Inktomi
Kartoo
Lotus Magellan
Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
PubSub
RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)
Scroogle
Singingfish
Speechbot
Sphere
Tafiti
Wikia Search
WiseNut
World Wide Web Worm



Source:Wikipedia