User:Kvwiki1234/List of search engines
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. For a list of search engine software, see List of enterprise search vendors.
By content/topic
[edit]General
[edit]| Name | Language | Alexa global ranking |
|---|---|---|
| AOL Search* | Multilingual | 378 †[1] |
| Ask.com** | Multilingual | 234[2] |
| Baidu | Chinese | 6[3] |
| Bing | Multilingual | 47[4] |
| Dogpile*** | English | 10,603[5] |
| DuckDuckGo* | Multilingual | 181[6] |
| Ecosia* | Multilingual | 700[7] |
| Exalead | Multilingual | 116,560[8] |
| Excite* | Multilingual | 40,694 †[9] |
| Gigablast | English | 135,070[10] |
| Multilingual | 1[11] | |
| HotBot* | English | 298,374[12] |
| Lycos | Multilingual | 36,396[13] |
| MetaCrawler*** | English | 50,489[14] |
| Mojeek | Multilingual | 148,996[15] |
| Qwant* | Multilingual | 2,158[16] |
| Searx*** | Multilingual | 93,323[17] |
| Sogou | Chinese | 162[18] |
| Soso | Chinese | 117[19] |
| Startpage.com** | English | 1,946[20] |
| Swisscows* | Multilingual | 232,931[21] |
| WebCrawler* | English | 4,264[22] |
| Yahoo!* | Multilingual | 12 †[23] |
| Yandex | Multilingual | 1,060 |
| Yippy*** | English | 137,607[24] |
| Youdao | Chinese | 260[25] |
* Powered by Bing
** Powered by Google
*** Metasearch engine
† Main website is a portal
Based on
[edit]Based on Ask.com (formerly)
[edit]Based on Bing
[edit]- A9.com
- AOL, from 2015
- Alexa Internet
- Ciao!
- Ecosia
- Egerin
- Facebook Search, until 2014
- HotBot
- Ms. Dewey
- WebCrawler
Based on Google
[edit]- AOL Search, until 2015
- BOL
- Groovle
- MySpace Search
- Mystery Seeker
- Netscape
- Ripple
- Startpage.com
Based on Yahoo!
[edit]- Ecocho
- Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests – formerly based on Google)
- Rectifi
Mobile/handheld
[edit]- Taganode Local Search Engine
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search
Geographically limited scope
[edit]Accountancy
[edit]Business
[edit]- Business.com
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
Computers
[edit]Dark Web
[edit]Education
[edit]General:
Academic materials only:
Enterprise
[edit]- Apache Solr
- Funnelback: Funnelback Search
- Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
- Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
- Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise
- SimilarWeb[26]
- Swiftype: Swiftype Search
- TeraText: TeraText Suite
Events
[edit]Food/recipes
[edit]- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Genealogy
[edit]- Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Job
[edit]- Adzuna (UK)
- CareerBuilder (USA)
- Craigslist (by city)
- Dice.com (USA)
- Glassdoor (USA)
- Indeed (USA)
- JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan and India)
- Monster.com (USA), (India)
- Naukri.com (India)
- Rozee.pk (Pakistan)
- Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)
Legal
[edit]Medical
[edit]- 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
- Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)
- Searchmedica
- WebMD
News
[edit]- Bing News
- Google News
- Newslookup
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Yahoo! News
People
[edit]Real estate/property
[edit]Television
[edit]Video games
[edit]By data type
[edit]Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Maps
[edit]- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Nokia Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- Tencent Maps
- Wikiloc
- WikiMapia
- Yahoo! Maps
- Yandex Maps
Multimedia
[edit]- Bing Videos
- blinkx
- FindSounds
- Google Video
- Munax's PlayAudioVideo
- Picsearch
- Pixsta
- Podscope
- SeeqPod
- Songza
- Tencent Video
- TinEye
- TV Genius
- Veveo
- Yahoo! Video
Price
[edit]- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[27])
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- PriceSCAN
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- Shopzilla
- SwoopThat.com
- TheFind.com
- TickX
Source code
[edit]BitTorrent
[edit]These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Blog
[edit]Forum
[edit]Question and answer
[edit]Human answers
[edit]Automatic answers
[edit]By model
[edit]Search appliances
[edit]- Fabasoft
- Google Search Appliance - discontinued
- Munax
- Searchdaimon
- Thunderstone
Desktop search engines
[edit]Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
| Name | Platform | Remarks | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomy | Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.[28] | Proprietary, commercial |
| Beagle | Linux | Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. | A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License |
| Copernic Desktop Search | Windows | Major desktop search program. The full trial version downgrades after the trial period automatically to the free version, which is (anno 2018) limited to indexing a maximum of 10.000 files. | Proprietary (30 day trial) |
| DocFetcher | Cross-platform | Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene | Eclipse Public License |
| dtSearch Desktop | Windows | Proprietary (30 day trial) | |
| Everything | Windows | Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes | Freeware |
| GNOME Storage | Linux | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL |
| Google Desktop | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. | Freeware |
| ISYS Search Software | Windows | ISYS:desktop search software. | Proprietary (14-day trial) |
| Locate32 | Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb | BSD License[29] |
| Lookeen | Windows | Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. | Proprietary (14-day trial)[30] |
| Nepomuk | Linux | Open Source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. | License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 |
| Recoll | Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS | Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL [31] |
| Spotlight | macOS | 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 [32] |
| Terrier Search Engine | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix | Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | MPL v1.1[33] |
| Tracker | Linux, Unix | Open source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | GPL v2 [34] |
| Tropes Zoom | Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[35] | Freeware and commercial |
| Unity Dash | Linux | Part of Ubuntu Desktop | GPL v3[36], LGPL v2.1[37] |
| 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 |
| X1 Desktop Search | Windows | Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search. | Proprietary (14-day trial)[38] |
Kids' safe search engines
[edit]Metasearch engines
[edit]| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Dogpile | English |
| Excite | English |
| Info.com | English |
| Kayak.com | Multilingual |
| Mamma.com | |
| Metacrawler | English |
| Mobissimo | Multilingual |
| Otalo.com | English |
| Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win | |
| Searx | Multilingual |
| Skyscanner | Multilingual |
| Yippy (formerly Clusty) | English |
Natural language
[edit]Open source search engines
[edit]- ht://Dig
- Isearch
- Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
- Lucene
- mnoGoSearch
- Nutch
- Recoll
- Searchdaimon
- Searx
- Seeks
- Sphinx
- SWISH-E
- Terrier Search Engine
- Xapian
- YaCy
- Zettair
Web search engine
[edit]Enterprise search
[edit]P2P search engines
[edit]| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| FAROO | English |
| Seeks (open source) | English |
| YaCy (free and fully decentralized) | Multilingual |
Privacy search engines
[edit]Social and environmental focus
[edit]Semantic browsing engines
[edit]| 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
[edit]Usenet
[edit]- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Visual search engines
[edit]By popularity
[edit]Defunct or acquired search engines
[edit]- 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)[40]
- BlogScope (acquired by Marketwire)
- Brainboost (public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.)
- BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
- Btjunkie
- Cuil (public engine no longer exists, acquired by Google Inc)
- DeepPeep
- Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
- Getit Infoservices Private Limited
- Google Answers
- GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO – GeneOntology and MeSH – Medical Subject Headings) (engine no longer exists)
- hakia (no longer exists)
- IBM STAIRS
- Infoseek (acquired by The Walt Disney Company)
- Inktomi
- Kartoo
- LeapFish (public engine no longer exists)
- Lotus Magellan
- MetaLib (public engine no longer exists)
- mozDex (no longer exists)
- Munax (no longer exists)
- Myriad Search (no longer exists)
- Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
- PubSub
- RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)
- Scroogle (Google Scraper)
- Singingfish (acquired by AOL)
- Speechbot
- Sphere (acquired by AOL)
- Tafiti (replaced by Microsoft Bing)
- Volunia[41]
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
See also
[edit]- List of academic databases and search engines
- List of web directories
- Search aggregator
- Search engine optimization
- Category:Search engine software
References
[edit]- ^ "Aol.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Ask.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Baidu.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Bing.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Dogpile.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Duckduckgo.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Ecosia.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Exalead.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Excite.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Gigablast.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Google.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Hotbot.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Lycos.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Metacrawler.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Mojeek.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Qwant.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Searx.me Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Sogou.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Soso.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Startpage.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Swisscows.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Webcrawler.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Yahoo.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ "Yippy.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Youdao.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "SimilarWeb". SimilarWeb. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ "HP Universal Search". Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
- ^ "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^ According to Recoll
- ^ According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
- ^ "Terrier License". GitHub.
- ^ According to COPYING Archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
- ^ According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Unity on GitHub". GitHub.
- ^ "Required License Files". GitHub.
- ^ "X1 Search 8". X1 Technologies. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ Darrow, Barb (October 13, 2017). "Alibaba Is Adding This Key Technology to Its Growing Cloud". Fortune. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ^ "Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It". 27 March 2015.
- ^ According to domain liquidation notice at http://blog.mrwebmaster.it/2014/04/11/il-dominio-volunia-it-e-in-vendita.html (Italian)
External links
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