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Click Applorinc - Search Engines
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General
- Ask.com
- Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
- Bing
- Blekko
- Duck Duck Go
- Google
- Kosmix
- Sogou (Chinese)
- Soso.com (Chinese)
- Yahoo!
- Yandex (Russian)
- Yebol
- Yodao (Chinese)
P2P search engines
- FAROO
- YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)
Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine
- Brainboost
- ChunkIt!
- Clusty
- DeeperWeb
- Dogpile
- Excite
- Harvester42
- HotBot
- Info.com
- Ixquick
- Kayak
- LeapFish
- Mamma
- Metacrawler
- MetaLib
- Mobissimo
- Myriad Search
- SideStep
- Turbo10
- WebCrawler
Collaborative
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
- Onkosh, Arab World
- Miner.hu, Hungary
- Najdi.si, Slovenia
- Naver, Korea
- Rambler, Russia
- Rediff, India
- SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
- Search.ch, Switzerland
- Sesam, Norway, Sweden
- Seznam, Czech Republic
- Walla!, Israel
- Yandex, Russia
- Yehey!, Philippines
- ZipLocal, Canada/United States
Accountancy
Business
- Business.com
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search
- 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
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Mobile/Handheld
- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Job
Main article: Job search engine
- 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
- WestLaw
- Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Quicklaw
- Manupatra
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
- Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
- PubGene
- Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)
- Searchmedica
- VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
- WebMD
News
- Bing News
- Google News
- Daylife
- MagPortal
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Topix.net
- Yahoo! News
People
- Comfibook
- Ex.plode.us
- InfoSpace
- PeekYou
- Spock
- Spokeo
- Wink
- Zabasearch.com
- ZoomInfo
Real estate / property
- Fizber.com
- HotPads.com
- Redfin
- Rightmove
- Zillow.com
Television
Video Games
By information type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
- Amatomu
- Bloglines
- BlogScope
- IceRocket
- Technorati
Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search
- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- ScienceStage
- Songza
- SeeqPod
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- TinEye
- Yahoo! Video
- YouTube
Source code
- Google Code Search
- JExamples
- Koders
- Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- Btjunkie
- FlixFlux
- Isohunt
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
Email
Maps
- Wiki Mapia
- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Yahoo! Maps
Price
- Bing Shopping
- Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Shopping.com
- ShopWiki
- Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
- TheFind.com
- Wishabi
Question and answer
Human answers
- Answers.com
- eHow
- Uclue
- Yahoo! Answers
- Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
- DeeperWeb
- Quora
Automatic answers
See also: Question answering
- AskMeNow
- BrainBoost
- True Knowledge
- Wolfram Alpha
Natural language
See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- BrainBoost
- hakia
- Lexxe
- Powerset
By model
Open source search engines
- DataparkSearch
- Egothor
- 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
Social search engines
See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine
- 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
Visual search engines
- ChunkIt!
- Grokker
- Pixsta
- PubGene
- Viewzi
Search appliances
- Google: Google Search Appliance
Desktop search engines
See also: Desktop search
Name |
Platform |
Remarks |
License |
Autonomy |
Windows |
IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. |
Proprietary, commercial |
Beagle |
Linux |
Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene |
A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
Copernic Desktop Search |
Windows |
Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark study.[1] |
Free for home use |
Docco |
cross-platform (Java) |
Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and it requires a Java Runtime Environment. |
BSD License [2] |
Docfetcher |
Cross-platform |
Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene |
Eclipse Public License |
dtSearch Desktop |
Windows |
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Proprietary (30 day trial) |
Easyfind |
Mac OS |
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Freeware |
Everything |
Windows |
Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes |
Freeware |
Google Desktop |
Linux, Mac OS, Windows |
Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. |
Freeware |
GNOME Storage |
Linux |
Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL |
imgSeek |
Linux, Mac OS, Windows |
Desktop content-based image search |
GPL v2 [3] |
InSight Desktop Search |
Windows |
Metadata-based search utility |
Freeware |
ISYS Search Software |
Windows |
ISYS:desktop search software. |
Proprietary (14 day trial) |
Likasoft Archivarius 3000 |
Windows |
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Proprietary (30 day trial) |
Meta Tracker |
Linux, Unix |
Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL v2 [4] |
Recoll |
Linux, Unix |
Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
GPL [5] |
Spotlight |
Mac OS |
Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. |
Proprietary |
Strigi |
Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows |
Cross-platform open source desktop search engine |
LGPL v2 [6] |
Terrier Search Engine |
Linux, Mac OS, Unix |
Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. |
MPL |
Tropes Zoom |
Windows |
Semantic Search Engine. |
Freeware and commercial |
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 x64 systems. |
Proprietary, freeware |
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!
- Facebook
- Tafiti
- Ms. Dewey
- Yahoo! Search
Ask.com
- Hakia (semantic search)
- iWon
- Lycos
Acquired or defunct search engines
- AlltheWeb
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Cuil
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- Google Answers
- 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)
- Singingfish
- Sphere
- Tafiti
- Teoma
- Wikia Search
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
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