Search engines, including

web search engine A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on World Wide Web, the Web in response to a user's web query, query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the sea ...

s, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and

web portal A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...

s and vertical market websites have a search facility for

online database In computing, a database is an organized collection of Data (computing), data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, Application software, applications, and ...

By content/topic

General

† Main website is a portal

Geographically localized

Accountancy

* IFACnet

Business

* Business.com * Daily Stocks * GenieKnows (United States and

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

) * GlobalSpec * Nexis (Lexis Nexis) * Thomasnet (

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

)

Computers

* Shodan (website)

Content

* Openverse, search engine for open content.

Dark web

* Ahmia

Education

General: *

Chegg Chegg, Inc., is an American Educational technology, education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services. The comp ...

Academic materials only: * BASE (search engine) *

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of Academic publishing, scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in Beta release, beta in November 2004, th ...

* Internet Archive Scholar *

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

* Semantic Scholar

Enterprise

* Apache Solr * Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking *

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

: 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

recipe A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish (food), dish of prepared food. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main r ...

s * Yummly: semantic recipe search

Genealogy

* Mocavo.com: family history search engine

Job

* Adzuna (UK) * CareerBuilder (US) * Craigslist (by city) * Dice.com (US) * Glassdoor (US) * Indeed (US) * JobStreet.com (

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

, Japan, India) * Monster.com (US), (India) * Naukri.com (India) * Rozee.pk (Pakistan) * Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)

Legal

* Google Patents *

* Lexis (Lexis Nexis) * Quicklaw *

WestLaw Westlaw is an Computer-assisted legal research, online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of ca ...

Medical

* Bing Health * Bioinformatic Harvester * CiteAb (antibody search engine for medical researchers) * EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine *

Entrez The Entrez () Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a federated search engine, or web portal that allows users to search many discrete health sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. The NCB ...

(includes

PubMed PubMed is an openly accessible, free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute ...

) * 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 Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web. Google ...

* Priyo * Yahoo! News

People

* Whitepages * FindFace * PeekYou * Spokeo * Zabasearch.com * ZoomInfo

Real estate/property

* HotPads.com * Realtor.com * Redfin * Rightmove * StuRents.com * Trulia * Zillow * Zoopla

Television

TV Genius TV Genius was a United Kingdom-based software company that specialize in TV search engines, TV recommendation engines, and Electronic program guide, EPG development. It was acquired by Red Bee Media in August 2011, and by Ericsson in July 2013 ...

Travel

* Bustripping

Video

* Sepia Search

Video games

* Wazap

By data type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Datasets

* Google Dataset Search

Maps

* Baidu Maps * Bing Maps * Géoportail *

Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panorama, interactive panoramic views of streets (Google Street View, Street View ...

* MapQuest * Nokia Maps *

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, Open Database License, open geographic database, map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveying, surveys, trace from Ae ...

* Petal Maps * Qwant Maps *

Tencent Maps Tencent Maps is a desktop and web mapping service application and technology provided by Tencent, offering satellite imagery, street maps, street view and historical view perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling ...

* Wikiloc * WikiMapia * Yahoo! Maps * Yandex Maps

Multimedia

* Bing Videos * blinkx * FindSounds * Google Images * Google Video * Munax's PlayAudioVideo * Openverse, search engine for open content. * Picsearch * Podscope * SeeqPod * Sepia Search * Songza * Tencent Video * TinEye *

* Veveo * Yahoo! Video

Price

* Bing Shopping * Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle) * Kelkoo * MySimon * PriceGrabber * PriceRunner * Pronto.com * Shopping.com * Shopzilla * TickX

Source code

* Google Code Search * Koders * Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol. * BTDigg * Isohunt - discontinued * Mininova - discontinued *

The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay, commonly abbreviated as TPB, is a free searchable online index of Film, movies, music, video games, Pornographic film, pornography and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank , The Pirate Bay facilitates the connection ...

* TorrentSpy - discontinued * Torrentz - discontinued

Blog

* Amatomu * Bloglines * IceRocket * Mojeek (substack only) * Munax * Regator * Technorati

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.

Child-safe search engines

* Kiddle * KidRex * KidzSearch * QwantJunior * Swisscows

Metasearch engines

Natural language

* Ask.com *

Bing Bing most often refers to: * Bing Crosby (1903–1977), American singer * Microsoft Bing, a web search engine Bing may also refer to: Food and drink * Bing (bread), a Chinese flatbread * Bing (soft drink), a UK brand * Bing cherry, a varie ...

(Semantic ability is powered by Powerset) * Lexxe * Perplexity.ai * SearchGPT

Open-source search engines

* ht://Dig * Isearch * Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine * Lucene * mnoGoSearch * Nutch * Openverse * Recoll * Searchdaimon * SearXNG * Seeks *

Sphinx A sphinx ( ; , ; or sphinges ) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. In Culture of Greece, Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, th ...

* SWISH-E * Terrier Search Engine * Xapian * YaCy * Zettair

Web search engine

* Gigablast * Grub

Enterprise search

P2P search engines

Privacy search engines

* Brave Search * DuckDuckGo * HotBot * Kagi * MetaGer * Mojeek * Qwant * SearXNG * Startpage.com * Swisscows * You.com

Social and environmental focus

Ecosia Ecosia (derived from "Ecology, eco" and "utopia") is a non-profit tech organisation based in Berlin, Germany. It runs its namesake internet search engine, which launched on 7 December 2009 to coincide with 2009 United Nations Climate Change Con ...

Semantic browsing engines

Social search engines

* ChaCha Search * Delver * Eurekster *

Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

Search * Mahalo.com * Rollyo * Sproose * Trexy

Usenet

* Google Groups (formerly

Deja News Google Groups is a service from Google that provides Internet forum, discussion groups for people sharing common interests. Until February 2024, the Groups service also provided a gateway to Usenet newsgroups, both reading and posting to them, vi ...

)

Visual search engines

* FindFace * Grokker * Macroglossa * TinEye * Viewzi

By popularity

Defunct or acquired search engines

* AlltheWeb (acquired by

Yahoo! Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its a ...

) *

AltaVista AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own sear ...

(acquired by

in 2003, shut down in 2013) * Bixee.com (India) (acquired by Ibibo) * Blekko (acquired by

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products) * BlogScope (acquired by Marketwire) * BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server) * Btjunkie * Cuil (patents acquired by

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

after shutdown) * DeepPeep * Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000) * Getit Infoservices Private Limited * Google Answers * GoPubMed * hakia * IBM STAIRS * Infoseek (acquired by

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

) *

Inktomi Inktomi Corporation was an American Internet service provider (ISP) software developer based in Foster City, California. Customers included Microsoft, HotBot, Amazon.com, eBay, and Walmart. The company developed Traffic Server, a proxy se ...

* Ixquick (merged into Startpage) * Jubii * Kartoo * LeapFish * Lotus Magellan * MetaLib * mozDex * Munax * Myriad Search * Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing) * PubSub * RetrievalWare (acquired by

Fast Search & Transfer Microsoft Development Center Norway (known as FAST (Fast Search & Transfer ASA) before 2010) is a Norway, Norwegian company, founded in 1997 and based in Oslo, with offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, ...

and now owned by

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

) * Scroogle (Google Scraper) * Singingfish (acquired by AOL) * Soso * Speechbot *

Sphere A sphere (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ) is a surface (mathematics), surface analogous to the circle, a curve. In solid geometry, a sphere is the Locus (mathematics), set of points that are all at the same distance from a given point in three ...

(acquired by AOL) * Startpage (acquired by System1, an advertising company) * Tafiti (replaced by

Microsoft Bing Microsoft Bing (also known simply as Bing) is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search. Bing offers a ...

) * Volunia * Wikia Search (defunct) * WiseNut *

World Wide Web Worm The World Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was one of the earliest search engines for the World Wide Web (WWW). It was developed in September 1993 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado as a research project. It is claimed by some to be the first se ...

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