Editing List of search engines (section)

== Defunct or acquired search engines ==<!-- Cliqz bought by brave -->
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! Name !! Backend ownership !! Demise
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|[[iWon]]||[[Ask.com]]||Shut down after [[AT&T]] merger{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
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|[[Teoma]]||[[Ask.com]]||Merged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms
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|[[A9.com]]||[[Microsoft Bing]]||Redirect to Amazon homepage (parent company)
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|[[AOL]]||[[Google]] until 2015, then [[Microsoft Bing]]|| Merged to Yahoo!
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|[[Alexa Internet]]||[[Microsoft Bing]]||Bought by Amazon in 1999, shut down in 2021
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|[[Ciao (website)|Ciao!]]||[[Microsoft Bing]]||Shut down in 2018
|-
|[[Ms. Dewey]]||[[Microsoft Bing]]||January 2009
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|[[Groovle]]||[[Google]]||Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity
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|[[MySpace]] Search||[[Google]]||Function taken over by Google in 2006
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|[[Mystery Seeker]]||[[Google]]||Novelty "search"; went offline in 2017
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|[[Netscape]]||[[Google]]||Now redirects to AOL
|-
|[[Ripple (charitable organisation)|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 (search)|Grams]]
|[[Grams (search)|Grams]] (anonymous owner)
|Closed in 2017
|}

* [[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 (computer)|Watson]]-based products)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html |title=Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It |date=27 March 2015 }}</ref>
* [[BlogScope]] (acquired by [[Marketwire]])
* [[BRS/Search]] (now [[OpenText]] Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
* [[Btjunkie]]
* [[Cuil]] (patents acquired by [[Google]] 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 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]])
* [[Inktomi]]
* [[Ixquick]] (merged into [[Startpage]])
* [[Jubii]]
* [[Kartoo]]
* [[LeapFish]]
* [[Lotus Magellan]]
* [[MetaLib]]
* [[mozDex]]
* [[Munax]]
* [[Myriad Search]]
* [[Overture.com]] (formerly GoTo.com, now [[Yahoo! Search Marketing]]) 
* [[PubSub Concepts|PubSub]]
* [[RetrievalWare]] (acquired by [[Fast Search & Transfer]] and now owned by [[Microsoft]])
* [[Scroogle]] (Google Scraper)
* [[Singingfish]] (acquired by [[AOL]])
* [[Soso (search engine)|Soso]]
* [[Speechbot]]
* [[Sphere (Website)|Sphere]] (acquired by [[AOL]])
* [[Startpage]] (acquired by System1, an advertising company)
* [[Tafiti]] (replaced by [[Microsoft Bing]])
* [[Volunia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.mrw.it/dominio-volunia-it-vendita_15916.html|title=Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita|website=MRW.it News|date=11 April 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Wikia Search]] (defunct)
* [[WiseNut]]
* [[World Wide Web Worm]]