Search Engines

Internet search engines are categorized by topic in our searchable directory of general and specialty search engines. Also listed are resources and tools for exploring the deep web, performing advanced research, and for learning about using search engine tools and technology.

General

  • Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
  • Baidu (Chinese)
  • Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)
  • Cuil
  • Duck Duck Go
  • Google
  • Sogou (Chinese)
  • Sohu (Chinese)
  • Yahoo! Search
  • Yandex (Russian)

 

Geographical limited scope

  • Accoona, China/US
  • Alleba, Philippines
  • Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
  • Araby, Middle East
  • Baidu, China
  • Daum, Korea
  • Guruji.com, India
  • Goo, Japan
  • Leit.is, Iceland
  • Miner.hu, Hungary
  • Najdi.si, Slovenia
  • Naver, Korea
  • Onkosh, Middle East
  • Rambler, Russia
  • Rediff, India
  • SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
  • Search.ch, Switzerland
  • Sesam, Norway, Sweden
  • Seznam, Czech Republic
  • Walla!, Israel
  • Yandex, Russia
  • ZipLocal, Canada/US

 

Accountancy

  • IFACnet

 

Business

  • Business.com
  • GlobalSpec
  • 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
  • X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
  • ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

 

Mobile/Handheld

  • Taptu: taptu mobile/social search

 

Job

  • Bixee.com (India)
  • CareerBuilder.com (USA)
  • Craigslist (by city)
  • Dice.com (Technology Professionals)
  • Eluta.ca (Canada)
  • Hotjobs.com (USA)
  • Incruit (Korea)
  • Indeed.com (USA)
  • LinkUp.com (USA)
  • Monster.com (USA),(India)
  • Recruit.net (International)
  • SimplyHired.com (USA)
  • Naukri.com (India)

 

Legal

  • WestLaw
  • Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Quicklaw
  • Manupatra

 

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)
  • VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)

 

News

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

 

People

  • PeekYou
  • Ex.plode.us
  • InfoSpace
  • Spock
  • Spokeo
  • Wink
  • Zabasearch.com
  • ZoomInfo

 

Real property

  • Fizber.com
  • Home.co.uk
  • HotPads.com
  • Rightmove
  • Zillow.com

 

Video Games

  • GenieKnows
  • Wazap (Japan)

 

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

 

Forum

  • Omgili

 

Blog

  • Amatomu
  • Bloglines
  • BlogScope
  • IceRocket
  • Sphere
  • Technorati

 

Multimedia

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

 

Source 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

  • TEK

 

Maps

  • Bing Maps
  • Géoportail
  • Google Maps
  • MapQuest
  • 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

 

Human answers

  • Answers.com
  • eHow
  • Uclue
  • Yahoo! Answers
  • Stack Overflow
  • DeeperWeb

 

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

 

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

 

Semantic browsing engines

  • Evri
  • Hakia

 

Social search engines

  • ChaCha Search
  • Delver
  • EarthFrisk.org
  • Eurekster
  • Mahalo.com
  • OneRiot
  • Rollyo
  • Sproose
  • Trexy
  • Wikia search
  • 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
  • LeapFish
  • Mamma
  • Metacrawler
  • MetaLib
  • Mobissimo
  • Myriad Search
  • SideStep
  • Turbo10
  • WebCrawler
  • DeeperWeb

 

Visual search engines

  • ChunkIt!
  • Grokker
  • Kartoo
  • Pixsta
  • PubGene
  • Viewzi

 

Search Appliances

  • Google: Google Search Appliance