List of search engines

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This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases.

Contents 1 By content/topic 1.1 General 1.2 Geographical limited scope 1.3 Accountancy 1.4 Business 1.5 Enterprise 1.5.1 Search Appliances 1.6 Job 1.7 Legal 1.8 Medical 1.9 News 1.10 People 1.11 Real property 1.12 Video Games 2 By information type 2.1 Forum 2.2 Blog 2.3 Multimedia 2.4 Source code 2.5 BitTorrent 2.6 Email 2.7 Maps 2.8 Price 2.9 Question and answer 3 By model 3.1 Open source search engines 3.2 Social search engines 3.3 Metasearch engines 3.4 Visual search engines 3.5 Desktop search engines 3.6 Usenet 4 Based on 4.1 Google 4.2 Yahoo! 4.3 Live Search 4.4 Ask.com 5 Defunct search engines 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

By content/topic

General

• Alexa Internet
• Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
• Baidu (Chinese)
• Exalead (French)
• Gigablast
• Google
• Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
• Sogou (Chinese)
• Sohu (Chinese)
• Wikia Search
• Yahoo! Search

Geographical limited scope

• Accoona, China/US
• Alleba, Philippines
• Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
• Araby, Middle East
• Baidu, China
• Daum, Korea
• Guruji.com, India
• Goo (search engine), Japan
• Miner.hu, Hungary
• Najdi.si, Slovenia
• Naver, Korea
• Onkosh, Middle East
• Rambler, Russia
• Rediff, India
• SAPO, Portugal
• Search.ch, Switzerland
• Sesam, Norway, Sweden
• Walla!, Israel
• Yandex, Russia

Accountancy

• IFACnet

Business

• Business.com
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise

See also: Enterprise search

• AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
• Autonomy: IDOL Server, K2 Enterprise (formerly Verity), Ultraseek (formerly Verity)
• 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
• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
• 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
• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

Search Appliances

• Google: Google Search Appliance

Job

Main articles: Job search engine and Employment website

See also: Category:Job search engines

• Bixee.com (India)
• CareerBuilder.com (USA)
• Craigslist (by city)
• Eluta.ca (Canada)
• Hotjobs.com (USA)
• Incruit (Korea)
• Indeed.com (USA)
• Monster.com (USA)
• Naukri.com (India)
• Recruit.net (International)
• SimplyHired.com (USA)
• TheLadders.com (USA)

Legal

• WestLaw
• Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Quicklaw

Medical

• Bioinformatic Harvester
• Entrez (includes Pubmed)
• EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine
• GenieKnows
• GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology)
• Healia
• MeshPubMed (knowledge-based: MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
• Searchmedica
• WebMD
• PubGene

News

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

People

• Ex.plode.us
• InfoSpace
• Spock - People Search
• Wink
• Zabasearch.com
• ZoomInfo

Real property

• Home.co.uk
• HotPads.com
• Properazzi
• Rightmove
• Zillow.com

Video Games

• GenieKnows
• Wazap

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

• Omgili

Blog

• Amatomu
• Bloglines
• BlogScope
• IceRocket
• Sphere
• Technorati

Multimedia

See also: Multimedia search

• blinkx
• FindSounds
• Picsearch
• Podscope
• SeeqPod
• Veveo
• YouTube
• Pixsta

Source code

• Google Code Search
• JExamples
• Koders
• Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

• Btjunkie
• Demonoid
• FlixFlux
• Isohunt
• Mininova
• The Pirate Bay
• TorrentSpy

Email

• Nicado
• TEK

Maps

• Géoportail
• Google Maps
• MapQuest
• Live Search Maps
• Yahoo! Maps

Price

• Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
• Kelkoo
• MSN Shopping
• MySimon
• NexTag
• PriceGrabber
• PriceRunner
• Shopping.com
• ShopWiki
• Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
• TheFind.com

Question and answer

• Answers.com
• AskMeNow
• AskWiki
• BrainBoost
• eHow
• hakia
• Lexxe
• Lycos iQ
• Powerset
• Live Search QnA
• Yahoo! Answers

By model

Open source search engines

• DataparkSearch
• Egothor
• Gonzui
• 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

Social search engines

See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine

• ChaCha Search
• Eurekster
• Mahalo.com
• Rollyo
• Trexy
• Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

• Brainboost
• Clusty
• Dogpile
• Excite
• HotBot
• Info.com
• Ixquick
• Kayak
• Krozilo
• Mamma
• Metacrawler
• MetaLib
• Mobissimo
• Myriad Search
• SideStep
• Turbo10
• WebCrawler

Visual search engines

• Grokker
• Kartoo
• Pixsta
• PubGene

Desktop search engines

See also: Desktop search

See also Comparison of desktop search software

Name	Platform	Remarks	License
Ask.com	Windows	-	Freeware
Autonomy	Windows	IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search.	Proprietary, Commercial
Beagle	Linux	Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene
Copernic Desktop Search	Windows	Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark study.[1]	Free for home use
Docco	Unix	Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and it requires a Java Runtime Environment.
dtSearch Desktop	Windows		Proprietary (30 day trial)
Filehawk	Windows	Indexes and searches files' content in computers, networks and removable data storage devices	Proprietary (30 day trial)
Gaviri PocketSearch	Windows	Indexes desktop, network drives and portable devices.	Freeware or commercial
Google Desktop	Linux, Mac OS, Windows	Integrates with the main Google search engine page.	Freeware
GNOME Storage	Linux	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux	GPL
imgSeek	Linux, Mac OS, Windows	Desktop content-based image search	-
ISYS Search Software	Windows	ISYS:desktop search software.	Proprietary (14 day trial)
Likasoft Archivarius 3000	Windows	-	Proprietary (30 day trial)
Meta Tracker	Linux, Unix	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux
Spotlight	Mac OS	Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases.
Strigi	Linux, Unix	Cross-platform open source desktop search engine	LGPL
Terrier Search Engine	Linux, Mac OS, Unix	Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux.	Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available as Windows Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003.
Tropes Zoom	Windows	Semantic Search Engine.	free and commercial
Windows Search	Windows		Proprietary, freeware
X1 Professional Client	Windows	Formerly Yahoo Desktop Search, then X1 Desktop Search, then X1 Enterprise Client	Proprietary (30 day trial)

Usenet

• Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on

Google

• AOL Search
• CompuServe Search
• MySpace Search
• Netscape
• Ripple

Yahoo!

• AltaVista
• AlltheWeb
• GoodSearch
• Rectifi

Live Search

• A9.com
• Tafiti
• Ms. Dewey

Ask.com

• Hakia (semantic search)
• iWon
• Lycos

Defunct search engines

• BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
• Google Answers
• Infoseek
• Inktomi
• Lotus Magellan
• Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
• PubSub
• Singingfish
• Teoma
• WiseNut
• World Wide Web Worm
• Excite (now a metasearch)
• WebCrawler (now a metasearch)

See also

• Academic databases and search engines
• List of web directories
• Search aggregator
• Search engine optimization
• Category:Search engine software

References

1. ^ Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.

External links

• Search Engines at the Open Directory Project