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Template:Short description Template:Pp-semi-indef Template:For-multi 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.

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GeneralEdit

Name Language Backend ownership
Ask.com Multilingual Google Template:Flagicon
Baidu Chinese Baidu Template:Flagicon
Brave Search Multilingual Brave Template:Flagicon
Dogpile English Metasearch engine
DuckDuckGo Multilingual Multiple
Ecosia Multilingual Google and Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
Elasticsearch Multilingual Template:Background until 2021, then Elasticsearch
Exalead Multilingual Cloudview Template:Flagicon
Excite† Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
Gigablast English Template:Open source
Google Multilingual Google Template:Flagicon
HotBot English Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
Kagi English Metasearch engine and Kagi Inc Template:Flagicon
Lycos Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
MetaCrawler English Metasearch engine
Microsoft Bing Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
Mojeek Multilingual Mojeek Template:Flagicon
Opensearch Multilingual Template:Open source
Petal Multilingual Huawei Template:Flagicon
Qwant Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
SearXNG Multilingual Metasearch engine
Sogou Multilingual Tencent Template:Flagicon
Startpage English Google Template:Flagicon
Swisscows Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
WebCrawler English Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
YaCy Multilingual Template:Open source
Yahoo! Search† Multilingual Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon
Yandex Multilingual Yandex Template:Flagicon
Youdao† Chinese NetEase Template:Flagicon
You.com English Microsoft Bing Template:Flagicon

† Main website is a portal

Geographically localizedEdit

Name Language Country
Accoona Chinese, English China, United States
BIGLOBE Japanese Japan
Daum Korean Korea
Nate Korean Korea
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Fireball German, English Germany
Goo Japanese Japan
Leit.is Icelandic, English Iceland
Najdi.si Slovenian Slovenia
Naver Korean Korea
Parsijoo Persian Iran
Pipilika (defunct) Bengali, English Bangladesh
Rambler Russian Russia
Rediff India
Search.ch Switzerland
Sesam (defunct) Norway, Sweden
Seznam Czech Czech Republic
Walla! Israel
Yahoo Japan Japanese Japan (Google backend)
Yongzin Tibetan China
ZipLocal English Canada, United States

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ComputersEdit

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EducationEdit

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EventsEdit

  • Tickex (US, UK)
  • TickX (UK, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands)

Food and recipesEdit

GenealogyEdit

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LegalEdit

MedicalEdit

Mobile/handheldEdit

NewsEdit

PeopleEdit

Real estate/propertyEdit

TelevisionEdit

TravelEdit

VideoEdit

Video gamesEdit

By data typeEdit

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

DatasetsEdit

MapsEdit

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MultimediaEdit

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PriceEdit

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Source codeEdit

BitTorrentEdit

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

BlogEdit

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Search appliancesEdit

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Desktop search enginesEdit

Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

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Template:Rh2 | Beagle Linux Open-source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. Template:Free
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. Template:Proprietary
DocFetcher Cross-platform Open-source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene Template:Free
dtSearch Desktop Windows Template:Proprietary
Everything Windows Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes Template:Nonfree
Found MacOS Searches for files stored locally, and the cloud and inbox and, is summoned with a double-tap of the ctrl key. Program now discontinued. Free, Proprietary
Template:Rh2 | GNOME Storage Linux Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux Template:Free
Template:Rh2 | Google Desktop Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Integrates with the main Google search engine page. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. Template:Nonfree
ISYS Search Software Windows ISYS:Desktop search software. Template:Proprietary
KRunner Linux
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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 Template:Free
Spotlight macOS Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Template:Proprietary
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Terrier Search Engine Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. Template:Free<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Tracker Linux, Unix Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux Template:Free
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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. Template:Proprietary
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Wumpus Cross platform Desktop search focused on information retrieval research GPL


Child-safe search enginesEdit

Metasearch enginesEdit

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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
SearXNG Multilingual
Skyscanner Multilingual
Wego.com Multilingual
All In One English

Natural languageEdit

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Open-source search enginesEdit

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Web search engineEdit

Enterprise searchEdit

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P2P search enginesEdit

Name Language
Seeks (open-source) English
YaCy (free and fully decentralized) Multilingual

Privacy search enginesEdit

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Social and environmental focusEdit

Semantic browsing enginesEdit

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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 enginesEdit

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UsenetEdit

Visual search enginesEdit

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By popularityEdit

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Defunct or acquired search enginesEdit

Name Backend ownership Demise
iWon Ask.com Shut down after AT&T mergerTemplate:Citation needed
Teoma Ask.com Merged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms
A9.com Microsoft Bing Redirect to Amazon homepage (parent company)
AOL Google until 2015, then Microsoft Bing Merged to Yahoo!
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
Groovle Google Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity
MySpace Search Google Function taken over by Google in 2006
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
Yippy IBM Watson Redirected to DuckDuckGo in 2021
Grams Grams (anonymous owner) Closed in 2017

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See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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