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This is a list of search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites that have a search facility for online databases. For a list of search engine software, see List of enterprise search vendors.

By content/topic

General

Name Language Alexa global ranking
AOL Search* Multilingual 378 †[1]
Ask.com** Multilingual 234[2]
Baidu Chinese 6[3]
Bing Multilingual 47[4]
Dogpile*** English 10,603[5]
DuckDuckGo* Multilingual 181[6]
Ecosia* Multilingual 700[7]
Exalead Multilingual 116,560[8]
Excite* Multilingual 40,694 †[9]
Gigablast English 135,070[10]
Google Multilingual 1[11]
HotBot* English 298,374[12]
Lycos Multilingual 36,396[13]
MetaCrawler*** English 50,489[14]
Mojeek Multilingual 148,996[15]
Qwant* Multilingual 2,158[16]
Searx*** Multilingual 93,323[17]
Sogou Chinese 162[18]
Soso Chinese 117[19]
Startpage.com** English 1,946[20]
Swisscows* Multilingual 232,931[21]
WebCrawler* English 4,264[22]
Yahoo!* Multilingual 12 †[23]
Yandex Multilingual 55 (Yandex.ru) 1,111 (.com)[24][25]
Yippy*** English 137,607[26]
Youdao Chinese 260[27]

* Powered by Bing

** Powered by Google

*** Metasearch engine

† Main website is a portal

Based on

Based on Ask.com (formerly)
Based on Bing
Based on Google
Based on Yahoo!
  • Ecocho
  • Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests – formerly based on Google)
  • Rectifi

Mobile/handheld

Geographically limited scope

Name Language Country
Accoona Chinese, English China, United States
Biglobe Japanese Japan
Daum Korean Korea
Egerin Kurdish Kurdistan
Fireball German, English Germany
Goo Japanese Japan
Leit.is Iceland
Maktoob Arab World
Miner.hu Hungary
Najdi.si Slovenia
Naver Korean Korea
Pipilika Bangladesh
Rambler Russia
Rediff India
SAPO Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique
Search.ch Switzerland
Sesam Norway, Sweden
Seznam Czech Republic
Walla! Israel
ZipLocal Canada, United States

Accountancy

Business

Computers

Dark Web

Education

General:

Academic materials only:

Enterprise

Events

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

Food/recipes

Genealogy

Job

Legal

Medical

News

People

Real estate/property

Television

Video games

By data type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Maps

Multimedia

Price

Source code

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Blog

Email

Forum

Question and answer

Human answers

Automatic answers

By model

Search appliances

Desktop search engines

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

Name Platform Remarks License
Autonomy Windows IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.[30] Proprietary, commercial
Beagle Linux Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License
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. Proprietary (30 day trial)
DocFetcher Cross-platform Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene Eclipse Public License
dtSearch Desktop Windows Proprietary (30 day trial)
Everything Windows Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes Freeware
GNOME Storage Linux Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL
Google Desktop Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. Freeware
ISYS Search Software Windows ISYS:desktop search software. Proprietary (14-day trial)
Locate32 Windows Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb BSD License[31]
Lookeen Windows Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial)[32]
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 GPL [33]
Spotlight macOS Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary
Strigi Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows Cross-platform open source desktop search engine LGPL v2 [34]
Terrier Search Engine Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1[35]
Tracker Linux, Unix Open source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [36]
Tropes Zoom Windows Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[37] Freeware and commercial
Unity Dash Linux Part of Ubuntu Desktop GPL v3[38], LGPL v2.1[39]
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. Proprietary
X1 Desktop Search Windows Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search. Proprietary (14-day trial)[40]

Kids' safe search engines

Metasearch engines

Name Language
Dogpile English
Excite English
Info.com English
Kayak.com Multilingual
Mamma.com
Metacrawler English
Mobissimo Multilingual
Otalo.com English
Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win
Searx Multilingual
Skyscanner Multilingual
Yippy (formerly Clusty) English

Natural language

Open source search engines

Web search engine

Enterprise search

P2P search engines

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

Privacy search engines

Social and environmental focus

Semantic browsing engines

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 engines

Usenet

Visual search engines

By popularity

Defunct or acquired search engines

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Ask.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  3. ^ "Baidu.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  4. ^ "Bing.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  5. ^ "Dogpile.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  6. ^ "Duckduckgo.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  7. ^ "Ecosia.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  8. ^ "Exalead.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
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  13. ^ "Lycos.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  14. ^ "Metacrawler.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
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