List of search engines

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.

By content/topic

General

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! Name !! Language

!Backend ownership

|Ask.com (defunct) || Multilingual

|Google

|Baidu|| Chinese

|Baidu

|Brave Search || Multilingual

|Brave

|Dogpile|| English

|Metasearch engine

|DuckDuckGo|| Multilingual

|Multiple

|Ecosia|| Multilingual

|Google and Microsoft Bing

|Elasticsearch|| Multilingual||Elasticsearch

|Exalead|| Multilingual

|Cloudview

|Excite†||Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|Google|| Multilingual

|Google

|HotBot|| English

|Microsoft Bing

|Kagi||English

|Metasearch engine and Kagi

|Lycos|| Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|MetaCrawler|| English

|Metasearch engine

|Microsoft Bing|| Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|Mojeek|| Multilingual

|Mojeek

|Opensearch|| Multilingual ||

|Petal|| Multilingual

|Huawei

|Presearch|| Multilingual

|Presearch

|Qwant|| Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|SearXNG|| Multilingual

|Metasearch engine

|Sogou|| Multilingual

|Tencent

|Startpage|| English

|Google

|Swisscows|| Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|WebCrawler|| English

|Microsoft Bing

|YaCy|| Multilingual ||

|Yahoo! Search†|| Multilingual

|Microsoft Bing

|Yandex|| Multilingual

|Yandex

|Yep

|English

|Yep

|Youdao†|| Chinese

|NetEase

|You.com || English

|Microsoft Bing

{| class="wikitable"

| <nowiki>†</nowiki> Main website is a portal

Geographically localized

{| class="wikitable sortable"

! Name !! Language !! Country

| Accoona || Chinese, English || China, United States

| BIGLOBE || Japanese || Japan

| Daum|| Korean

|| Korea

| Nate || Korean

|| Korea

| Egerin || Kurdish|| Sweden

| Fireball || German, English || Germany

| Goo || Japanese || Japan

| Leit.is ||Icelandic, English || Iceland

| Najdi.si || Slovenian|| Slovenia

| Naver || Korean || Korea

| Parsijoo (defunct) || Persian || Iran

| Pipilika (defunct) || Bengali, English || Bangladesh

| Rambler || Russian || Russia

| Rediff || || India

| SAPO || Portuguese || Portugal

| 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

Business

Business.com
Daily Stocks
GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
GlobalSpec
Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
Thomasnet (United States)
Justdial (India)

Computers

Shodan (website)

Content

Openverse, search engine for open content.

Dark web

Ahmia

Education

General:

Chegg

Academic materials only:

BASE (search engine)
Google Scholar
Internet Archive Scholar
Library of Congress
Semantic Scholar

Enterprise

Apache Solr
Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
Q-Sensei: Q-Sensei Enterprise
Swiftype: Swiftype Search
TeraText: TeraText Suite
Zoho

Events

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

Food and recipes

RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
Yummly: semantic recipe search

Genealogy

Mocavo.com: family history search engine

Job

Adzuna (UK)
CareerBuilder (US)
Craigslist (by city)
Dice.com (US)
Glassdoor (US)
Indeed (US)
JobStreet.com (Southeast Asia, Japan, India)
Monster.com (US), (India)
Naukri.com (India)
Yahoo! HotJobs (Country-wise subdomains, International)

Legal

Google Patents
Google Scholar
Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
Quicklaw
WestLaw

Medical

Bing Health
Bioinformatic Harvester
CiteAb (antibody search engine for medical researchers)
EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine
Entrez (includes PubMed)
GenieKnows
Healia
Healthline
Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
PubGene
Searchmedica
WebMD

Mobile/handheld

Taganode Local Search Engine (now defunct)
Taptu: taptu mobile/social search (now defunct)

News

Bing News
Google News
Dailyhunt (India)
Priyo
Yahoo! News

People

Whitepages
FindFace
PeekYou
Spokeo
Zabasearch.com
ZoomInfo

Real estate/property

HotPads.com
Realtor.com
Redfin
Rightmove
StuRents.com
Trulia
Zillow
Zoopla

Television

TV Genius

Travel

Bustripping

Video

Sepia Search

Video games

Wazap

By data type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Datasets

Google Dataset Search

Maps

Baidu Maps
Bing Maps
Géoportail
Google Maps
MapQuest
Nokia Maps
OpenStreetMap
Petal Maps
Qwant Maps (defunct)
Tencent Maps
Wikiloc
WikiMapia
Yahoo! Maps
Yandex Maps
MapmyIndia

Multimedia

Bing Videos
blinkx
FindSounds
Google Images
Google Video
Munax's PlayAudioVideo
Openverse, search engine for open content.
Picsearch
Podscope
SeeqPod
Sepia Search
Songza
Tencent Video
TinEye
TV Genius
Veveo
Yahoo! Video

Price

Bing Shopping
Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle)
Kelkoo
MySimon
PriceGrabber
PriceRunner
Pronto.com
Shopping.com
Shopzilla
TickX

Source code

Google Code Search
Koders
Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

BTDigg
Isohunt - discontinued
Mininova - discontinued
The Pirate Bay
TorrentSpy - discontinued
Torrentz - discontinued

Blog

Amatomu
Bloglines
IceRocket
Marginalia
Mojeek (substack only)
Munax
Regator
Technorati

By model

Search appliances

Fabasoft
Google Search Appliance - discontinued
Munax
Searchdaimon
Thunderstone

Desktop search engines

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

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! Name

! Platform

! Remarks

! License

! HP Autonomy

| Windows

| IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.

! 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.

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! DocFetcher

| Cross-platform

| Open-source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene

! dtSearch Desktop

| Windows

! Everything

| Windows

| Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes

!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

! | GNOME Storage

| Linux

| Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux

! | Google Desktop

| Linux, macOS, Windows

| Integrates with main Google search engine page; discontinued by Google September 14, 2011

! ISYS Search Software

| Windows

| ISYS:Desktop search software

!KRunner

|Linux

! | Locate32

| Windows

| Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb

! | Lookeen

| Windows

| Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine.

! Nepomuk

| Linux

| Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward.

| Mix of SA 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation v1.2

! Recoll

| Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS

| Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux

! Spotlight

| macOS

| Found in Apple macOS "Tiger" and later OS X releases.

! | Strigi

| Linux, Unix, Solaris, macOS, Windows

| Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02.

! Terrier Search Engine

| Linux, macOS, Unix

| Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, Unix/Linux.

! Tracker

| Linux, Unix

| Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux

! | Tropes Zoom

| Windows

| Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)

! Unity Dash

| Linux

| Was part of Ubuntu Desktop