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By content/topic
General
Baidu (Chinese, Japanese) Bing Blekko Google Sogou (Chinese) Soso.com (Chinese) Volunia Yahoo! Yandex.com Yodao (Chinese)

P2P search engines

FAROO Seeks (Open Source) YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)

Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine Blingo Yippy (formerly Clusty) DeeperWeb Dogpile Excite Harvester42 HotBot Info.com Ixquick Kayak Mamma Metacrawler
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Mobissimo Otalo PCH Search and Win SideStep WebCrawler

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 Miner.hu, Hungary Najdi.si, Slovenia Naver, Korea Onkosh, Arab World Rambler, Russia Rediff, India SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique Search.ch, Switzerland Sesam, Norway, Sweden Seznam, Czech Republic Walla!, Israel Yandex.ru, Russia/Turkey Yehey!, Philippines ZipLocal, Canada/United States

Accountancy
IFACnet

Business
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Business.com Getit Infoservices Private Limited GenieKnows (United States and Canada) GlobalSpec Nexis (Lexis Nexis) Thomasnet (United States) Justdial

Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search Funnelback: Funnelback Search Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise TeraText: TeraText Suite

Food/Recipes
RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for 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)
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LinkUp.com (USA) Monster.com (USA), (India) Naukri.com (India) Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)

Legal
Google Scholar Lexis (Lexis Nexis) Manupatra Quicklaw WestLaw

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 Healthline Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine) PubGene Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature) Searchmedica WebMD

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

People
Comfibook Ex.plode.us InfoSpace PeekYou Spock Spokeo Wink Worldwide Helpers Zabasearch.com ZoomInfo

Real estate / property

Fizber.com HotPads.com Realtor.com Redfin Rightmove Zillow.com

Television
TV Genius

Video Games
Wazap (Japan)

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

Forum
Omgili
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Blog
Amatomu Bloglines BlogScope IceRocket Regator Technorati

Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search Bing Videos blinkx FindSounds Google Video Munax's PlayAudioVideo Picsearch Pixsta Podscope ScienceStage SeeqPod Songza TinEye TV Genius Veveo Yahoo! Video YouTube

Source code
Google Code Search JExamples Koders Krugle

BitTorrent
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These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol. FlixFlux Isohunt Mininova The Pirate Bay TorrentSpy Torrentz Tornado.li

Cloud
Search engines listed below find various types of files that have been stored in the cloud and made publicly available. Open Drive

Email
Lookeen TEK

Maps
Bing Maps Goportail Google Maps MapQuest Nokia_Maps OpenStreetMap WikiMapia Yahoo! Maps

Price
Bing Shopping Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle) Kelkoo MySimon PriceGrabber PriceRunner
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PriceSCAN Pronto.com Shopping.com ShopWiki Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate) SwoopThat.com TheFind.com Wishabi

Question and answer

Human answers
Answers.com Ask Me Help Desk DeeperWeb eHow Quora Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network Uclue wikiHow Yahoo! Answers

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) hakia
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Lexxe

By model
Privacy search engines
DuckDuckGo Ixquick

Open source search engines

DataparkSearch Egothor Grub ht://Dig Isearch Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine Lucene mnoGoSearch Namazu Nutch Recoll Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology) Seeks Sphinx SWISH-E Terrier Search Engine Wikia Search (defunct) Xapian YaCy Zettair

Semantic browsing engines

Hakia Yebol

Social search engines

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See also: Social search, Relevance feedback , and Human search engine ChaCha Search Delver Eurekster Mahalo.com OneRiot Rollyo SearchTeam Sproose Trexy Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Visual search engines

See also: Visual search engine ChunkIt! Grokker Pixsta PubGene TinEye Viewzi Macroglossa

Search appliances
See also: Search appliance Google Search Appliance Fabasoft Searchdaimon Thunderstone

Desktop search engines

See also: Desk top search Name Platform Remarks License
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Autonomy

Windows

IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009.

Proprietary, commercial A mix of theX11/MIT Licenseand the Apache License Free for home use

Beagle Copernic Desktop Search Docfetcher dtSearch Desktop Everything Google Desktop GNOME Storage imgSeek InSight Desktop Search ISYS Search Software Locate32 Lookeen Meta Tracker Recoll Spotlight Strigi

Linux

Windows Cross-platform Windows Windows Linux, Mac OS,Windows Linux Linux, Mac OS,Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Linux, Unix Linux, Unix Mac OS Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux Desktop content-based image search Metadata-based search utility ISYS:desktop search software. Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb Outlook Search Tool, with integrated Desktop Search Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based onApache Lucene

Eclipse Public License Proprietary (30 day trial) Freeware Freeware GPL GPL v2 [1] Freeware Proprietary (14 day trial) BSD License[2] Proprietary (14 day trial) GPL v2 [3] GPL [4] Proprietary LGPL v2 [5] MPL Freeware and
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Linux, Unix,Solaris, Mac Cross-platform open source desktop search engine OS X and Windows Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. Semantic Search Engine.

Terrier Search Engine Linux, Mac OS,Unix Tropes Zoom Windows

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commercial Unity Dash Windows Search Linux Windows Part of Ubuntu Desktop. GPL v3

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 Proprietary, freeware x64 systems.

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! Ecosia Facebook Ms. Dewey
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Yahoo! Search

Ask.com
Hakia (semantic search) iWon Lycos Teoma

Defunct or acquired search engines

AlltheWeb Brainboost (Public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.) BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server) Btjunkie Cuil ChunkIt! (now "yolink!") (Public engine no longer exists) Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000) Google Answers IBM STAIRS Infoseek Inktomi Kartoo LeapFish (Public engine no longer exists) Lotus Magellan MetaLib (Public engine no longer exists) mozDex (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 Speechbot Sphere Tafiti
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Yebol Wikia Search WiseNut World Wide Web Worm

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

References
1. ^ According to COPYING 3. ^ According to COPYING 4. ^ According to [1] . in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package. 5. ^ According to COPYING in SVN trunk on SourceForge. in SVN trunk. 2. ^ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml

External links
Search Engines at the Open Directory Project
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Internet search engines

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