List of search engines

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.

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 Microsoft Bing

Ecosia Multilingual Microsoft Bing

Elasticsearch Multilingual Apache 2.0 until 2021, then Elasticsearch

Exalead Multilingual Cloudview

Excite† Multilingual Microsoft Bing

Gigablast English Apache License 2.0

Google Multilingual Google

HotBot English Microsoft Bing

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

Qwant Multilingual Microsoft Bing

Searx Multilingual Metasearch engine

Sogou Multilingual Tencent

Startpage English Google

Swisscows Multilingual Microsoft Bing

WebCrawler English Microsoft Bing

YaCy Multilingual GPL-2.0-or-later

Yahoo! Search† Multilingual Microsoft Bing

Yandex Multilingual Yandex

Youdao† Chinese NetEase

You.com English Microsoft Bing

† Main website is a portal

Geographically localized

Name Language Country

Accoona Chinese, English China, United States

Biglobe Japanese Japan

Daum Korean Korea

Nate Korean Korea

Egerin Kurdish Kurdistan (Bing backend)

Fireball German, English Germany

Goo Japanese Japan

Leit.is Icelandic, English Iceland

Maktoob Arabic, English Arab World

Miner.hu Hungarian Hungary

Najdi.si Slovenian Slovenia

Naver Korean Korea

Parsijoo Persian Iran

Pipilika Bengali, English Bangladesh

Rambler Russian Russia

Rediff India

Search.ch Switzerland
Sesam Norway, Sweden

Seznam Czech Czech Republic

Walla! Israel
Yahoo! Japan Japanese Japan (Google backend)

Yongzin Tibetan China

ZipLocal English Canada, United States

Qmamu English, Hindi India

Accountancy
IFACnet

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

Computers
Shodan (website)

Content
Openverse, search engine for open content.

Dark web
Ahmia
Grams
TorSearch

Education

General:

Chegg
SkilledUp

Academic materials only:

BASE (search engine)

ChemRefer
CiteULike
Google Scholar
Library of Congress
Semantic Scholar
Zendy

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

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 (USA)
Craigslist (by city)
Dice.com (USA)
Glassdoor (USA)
Indeed (USA)
JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan, India)
Monster.com (USA), (India)
Naukri.com (India)
Rozee.pk (Pakistan)
Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)

Legal
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
Newslookup
Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
Yahoo! News

People
FindFace
PeekYou
Spokeo
Zabasearch.com
ZoomInfo

Real estate/property
HotPads.com
Realtor.com
Redfin
Rightmove
StuRents.com
Trulia
Zillow
Zoopla

Television
TV Genius

Video games
Wazap

By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Maps
Baidu Maps
Bing Maps
Géoportail
Google Maps
MapQuest
Nokia Maps
OpenStreetMap
Petal Maps
Tencent Maps
Wikiloc
WikiMapia
Yahoo! Maps
Yandex Maps

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

Price
Bing Shopping
Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[1])
Kelkoo
MySimon
PriceGrabber
PriceRunner
 Pronto.com
Shopping.com
Shopzilla
TickX

Source code
codeseek.com
Google Code Search
Koders
Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

BTDigg
Isohunt
Mininova
The Pirate Bay
TorrentSpy
Torrentz

Blog
Amatomu
Bloglines
IceRocket
Munax
Regator
Technorati

Email
TEK

Forum
Omgili

Question and answer

Human answers
Answers.com
 eHow
Quora
Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
Uclue
wikiHow
Yahoo! Answers
Zhihu

Automatic answers
AskMeNow
Wolfram Alpha

By model

Search appliances
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

IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy

HP Autonomy Windows Proprietary, commercial
Universal Search.[2]
A mix of the X11/MIT
Open-source desktop search tool for Linux
Beagle Linux License and the Apache
based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009.
License

Major desktop search program. The full trial

Copernic version downgrades after the trial period
Desktop Windows automatically to the free version, which is (anno Proprietary (30 day trial)
Search 2018) limited to indexing a maximum of 10.000
files.
Open-source desktop search tool for Windows
DocFetcher Cross-platform Eclipse Public License
and Linux, based on Apache Lucene

dtSearch
Windows Proprietary (30 day trial)
Desktop

Find files and folders by name instantly on

Everything Windows Freeware
NTFS volumes
GNOME
Linux Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL
Storage

Integrates with the main Google search engine

Google Linux, Mac OS
page. As of September 14, 2011, Google has Freeware
Desktop X, Windows
discontinued this product.

ISYS Search
Windows ISYS:Desktop search software. Proprietary (14-day trial)
Software

Locate32 Windows Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb BSD License[3]
Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and
Proprietary (14-day
Lookeen Windows limited support for other formats via IFilters,
uses Lucene search engine. trial)[4]

License SA 3.0 and the

Open-source semantic desktop search tool for
GNU Free
Nepomuk Linux Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE
Documentation License
Applications from release 4.13 onward.
1.2

Linux, Unix,
Recoll Windows, Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL [5]
macOS
Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS
Spotlight macOS Proprietary
X releases.

Linux, Unix,
Cross-platform open-source desktop search
Strigi Solaris, Mac OS
engine LGPL v2 [6]
X and Windows

Terrier Search Linux, Mac OS Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger),
MPL v1.1[7]
Engine X, Unix Unix/Linux.

Tracker Linux, Unix Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [8]
Freeware and
Tropes Zoom Windows Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[9] commercial

GPL v3,[10] LGPL

Unity Dash Linux Part of Ubuntu Desktop
v2.1[11]
Windows Windows Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available Proprietary
Search as Windows Desktop Search for Windows XP
 and Server 2003. Does not support indexing
UNC paths on x64 systems.

X1 Desktop Major desktop search product along with Proprietary (14-day

Windows
Search Copernic Desktop Search trial)[12]

Child-safe search engines

Kiddle
KidRex
KidzSearch
QwantJunior
Swisscows

Metasearch engines

Name Language

Dogpile English

Excite English
Info.com English

Kayak.com Multilingual

Mamma.com
MetaCrawler English

MetaGer Multilingual

Mobissimo Multilingual
Otalo.com English

Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win

Searx Multilingual
Skyscanner Multilingual

Wego.com Multilingual

Natural language
Ask.com
Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
Lexxe

Open-source search engines

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

Web search engine

Gigablast
Grub

Enterprise search
Apache Solr
Elasticsearch[13]

P2P search engines

Name Language

Seeks (open-source) English

YaCy (free and fully decentralized) Multilingual

Privacy search engines

DuckDuckGo
HotBot
MetaGer
Mojeek
Qwant
Searx
Swisscows
 You.com

Social and environmental focus

Ecosia

Semantic browsing engines

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

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

Usenet
Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Visual search engines

FindFace
Grokker
Macroglossa
Pixsta
TinEye
 Viewzi

By popularity

Defunct or acquired search engines

Name Backend ownership Demise

iWon Ask.com Shut down after AT&T merger

Teoma Ask.com Merged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms

A9.com Microsoft Bing Redirect to Amazon homepage (parent company)

Google until 2015, then Microsoft

AOL Merged to Yahoo!
Bing

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

Taken over by Google after Google sued for name

Groovle Google
similarity
MySpace
Google Function taken over by Google in 2006
Search

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

Rectifi Yahoo!

Yippy IBM Watson Redirected to DuckDuckGo in 2021

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)[14]
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)
FedWorld Information Network (Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/19961104135904/htt
p://www.fedworld.gov/) 4 November 1996 at the Wayback Machine, a web and telnet search
engine and FTP site specialized to searching for and within United States federal
government documents, established in 1992 by the National Technical Information Service
(NTIS) and shut down in 2013)
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
Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
PicoSearch [defunct July 2014][15] ...[16] [17]
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[18]
Wikia Search (defunct)
WiseNut
World Wide Web Worm

See also
List of academic databases and search engines
List of web directories
Search aggregator
Search engine optimization
Category:Search engine software

References
1. Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!" (https://
searchengineland.com/goodbye-froogle-hello-google-product-search-11001). Search
Engine Land. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
 2. "HP Universal Search" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150516141232/http://www.autonomy.
com/products/universal-search). Archived from the original (http://www.autonomy.com/produ
cts/universal-search) on 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
3. "Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100" (https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database
-Utils/Locate32.shtml). softpedia. 20 August 2012.
4. "Lookeen 10" (https://www.lookeen.com/). Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
5. According to Recoll (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/)
6. According to COPYING (https://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/files/strigi/0.5.10/strigi-0.5.10.t
ar.bz2/download) inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
7. "Terrier License" (https://github.com/terrier-org/terrier-core/blob/4.2/LICENSE.txt). GitHub. 13
November 2021.
8. According to COPYING (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/tracker/trunk/COPYING?view=markup)
Archived (https://archive.today/20120714094437/http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/tracker/trunk/C
OPYING?view=markup) 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
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ntic-knowledge.com/download.htm). Archived from the original (http://www.semantic-knowle
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15. PicoSearch (https://web.archive.org/web/20080103114227/http://www.picosearch.com/), the
webpage from January 2008 when the site was 10 years old(WaybackMachine)
16. PicoSearch (https://web.archive.org/web/20140527120021/http://www.picosearch.com/) May
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(Wayback Machine)
17. "Goodbye, PicoSearch" (https://www.kesslerfreedman.com/2014/05/goodbye-picosearch/),
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18. "Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita" (https://news.mrw.it/dominio-volunia-it-vendita_15916.htm
l). MRW.it News.

External links
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