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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.

By content/topic

General

Geographical limited scope

Accountancy

Business

Enterprise

See also: Enterprise search

Search Appliances

  • Google: Google Search Appliance


Job

Main articles: Job search engine and Employment website
See also: Category:Job search engines

Legal

Medical

News

People

Real property

Video Games

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

Blog

Multimedia

See also: Multimedia search

Source code

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Email

Maps

Price

Question and answer

By model

Open source search engines

Social search engines

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

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

Visual search engines

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

Based on

Google

Yahoo!

Live Search

Ask.com

Defunct search engines

See also

References

  1. ^ "Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-03-10.

External links

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