Search Engines

Search engines are out there, lots of them. The Wiki covers the field. There is also  "Free Meta Search Engine Source Code" by Wall, Aaron (February 9, 2006) & A Comprehensive list of Search Engines - The Search Engine List

Perhaps the right question is not: Will a search engine tell me? It is why search engines are easily available, eager for your custom. The answer? As always, follow the money. Your questions tell THEM about you. Searching for "syphilis cures" implies that you have it or might get it. Do you want the world to know. Search for "explosives" and get noticed by Secret Squirrel. But Ixquick has answers. Ixquick explains at Don't Bubble Me.

You might be told that DuckDuckGo is the on to go for. There are people out there with doubts about it and the Jew who started it.

Someone with an interest in searching well & effectively is Fravia; find his site at How to search the web, by fravia+

Metasearch engines ex Wiki
Tend to be anonymous, which may be why www.ixquick.com has gone belly up.

 

List of Search Engines ex Wiki
This is a list of Wikipedia articles about 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.

By content/topic

General

• Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)

• Bing

• Blekko

• Google

• Sogou (Chinese)

• Soso.com (Chinese)

• Volunia

• Yahoo!

• Yandex (Russian)

• Yebol

• Yodao (Chinese)

• WireDoo

P2P search engines

• FAROO

• Seeks (Open Source)

• YaCy (Free and fully decentralized)

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

• Brainboost

• ChunkIt!

• Clusty

• DeeperWeb

• Dogpile

• Excite

• Harvester42

• HotBot

• Info.com

• f

• Kayak

• LeapFish

• Mamma

• Metacrawler

• MetaLib

• Mobissimo

• Myriad Search

• SideStep

• WebCrawler

Geographically limited scope

• Accoona, China/United States

• Alleba, Philippines

• Ansearch, Australia/United States/United Kingdom/New Zealand

• Biglobe, Japan

• Daum, Korea

• Goo, Japan

• Guruji.com, India

• Leit.is, Iceland

• Maktoob, Arab World

• Miner.hu, Hungary

• Najdi.si, Slovenia

• Naver, Korea

• Onkosh, Arab World

• Rambler, Russia

• Rediff, India

• SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique

• Search.ch, Switzerland

• Sesam, Norway, Sweden

• Seznam, Czech Republic

• Walla!, Israel

• Yandex, Russia

• Yehey!, Philippines

• ZipLocal, Canada/United States

Accountancy

• IFACnet

Business

• Business.com

• GenieKnows (United States and Canada)

• GlobalSpec

• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)

• Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise

See also: Enterprise search

• AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution

• Concept Searching Limited: concept search products

• Coveo: Coveo Enterprise Search platform, Coveo Expresso

• Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation

• dtSearch: dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web

• Endeca: Information Access Platform

• Exalead: exalead one:enterprise

• Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito

• Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)

• Funnelback: Funnelback Search

• IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition

• Inbenta: Inbenta Semantic Search Engine

• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk

• Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking

• Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services

• Northern Light

• Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search

• Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g

• SAP: TREX

• TeraText: TeraText Suite

• Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine

• X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search

• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

Food/Recipes

• RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes

• Yummly: semantic recipe search

Mobile/Handheld

• Black Google Mobile

• Taganode Local Search Engine

• Taptu: taptu mobile/social search

Job

Main article: Job search engine

• Bixee.com (India)

• CareerBuilder.com (USA)

• Craigslist (by city)

• Dice.com (USA)

• Eluta.ca (Canada)

• Hotjobs.com (USA)

• Incruit (Korea)

• Indeed.com (USA)

• LinkUp.com (USA)

• Monster.com (USA), (India)

• Naukri.com (India)

• Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)

Legal

• Google Scholar

• Lexis (Lexis Nexis)

• Manupatra

• Quicklaw

• WestLaw

Medical

• Bing Health

• Bioinformatic Harvester

• EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine

• Entrez (includes Pubmed)

• GenieKnows

• GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)

• Healia

• Healthline

• Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)

• PubGene

• Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)

• Searchmedica

• VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)

• WebMD

News

• Bing News

• Daylife

• Google News

• MagPortal

• Newslookup

• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)

• Topix.net

• Yahoo! News

People

• Comfibook

• Ex.plode.us

• InfoSpace

• PeekYou

• Spock

• Spokeo

• Wink

• Zabasearch.com

• ZoomInfo

Real estate / property

• Fizber.com

• HotPads.com

• Redfin

• Rightmove

• Zillow.com

Television

• TV Genius

Video Games

• Wazap (Japan)

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

• Omgili

Blog

• Amatomu

• Bloglines

• BlogPulse

• BlogScope

• IceRocket

• Regator

• Technorati

Multimedia

See also: Multimedia search

• Bing Videos

• blinkx

• FindSounds

• Google Video

• Munax's PlayAudioVideo

• Picsearch

• Pixsta

• Podscope

• ScienceStage

• SeeqPod

• Songza

• TinEye

• TV Genius

• Veveo

• Yahoo! Video

• YouTube

Source code

• Google Code Search

• JExamples

• Koders

• Krugle

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

• FlixFlux

• Isohunt

• Mininova

• The Pirate Bay

• TorrentSpy

• Torrentz

Email

• Lookeen

• TEK

Maps

• Bing Maps

• Géoportail

• Google Maps

• MapQuest

• OpenStreetMap

• WikiMapia

• Yahoo! Maps

Price

• Bing Shopping

• Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)

• Kelkoo

• MySimon

• PriceGrabber

• PriceRunner

• PriceSCAN

• Pronto.com

• Shopping.com

• ShopWiki

• Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)

• SwoopThat.com

• TheFind.com

• Wishabi

Question and answer

Human answers

• Answers.com

• Ask Me Help Desk

• DeeperWeb

• eHow

• Quora

• Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network

• Uclue

• wikiHow

• Yahoo! Answers

Automatic answers

See also: Question answering

• AskMeNow

• BrainBoost

• True Knowledge

• Wolfram Alpha

Natural language

See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search

• Ask.com

• Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)

• BrainBoost

• hakia

• Lexxe

• Powerset

By model

Privacy search engines

• DuckDuckGo

• Scroogle Scraper

Open source search engines

• DataparkSearch

• Egothor

• Grub

• ht://Dig

• Isearch

• Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine

• Lucene

• mnoGoSearch

• MozDex

• Namazu

• Nutch

• OpenFTS

• Recoll

• Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)

• Seeks

• Sphinx

• SWISH-E

• Terrier Search Engine

• Wikia Search

• Xapian

• YaCy

• Zettair

Semantic browsing engines

• Hakia

• Yebol

Social search engines

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

• ChaCha Search

• Delver

• Eurekster

• Mahalo.com

• OneRiot

• Rollyo

• SearchTeam

• Sproose

• Trexy

• Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Visual search engines

• ChunkIt!

• Grokker

• Pixsta

• PubGene

• TinEye

• Viewzi

• Macroglossa

Search appliances

• Google: Google Search Appliance

 

Desktop search engines

See also: Desktop search

Name	Platform	Remarks	License
Autonomy	Windows	IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search.	Proprietary, commercial
Beagle	Linux	Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene	A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License
Copernic Desktop Search	Windows	Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark study.[1]	Free for home use
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)
Easyfind	Mac OS		Freeware
Everything	Windows	Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes	Freeware
Google Desktop	Linux, Mac OS, Windows	Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product.	Freeware
GNOME Storage	Linux	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux	GPL
imgSeek	Linux, Mac OS, Windows	Desktop content-based image search	GPL v2 [2]
InSight Desktop Search	Windows	Metadata-based search utility	Freeware
ISYS Search Software	Windows	ISYS:desktop search software.	Proprietary (14 day trial)
Locate32	Windows	Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb	BSD License[3]
Meta Tracker	Linux, Unix	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux	GPL v2 [4]
Recoll	Linux, Unix	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux	GPL [5]
Spotlight	Mac OS	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 [6]
Terrier Search Engine	Linux, Mac OS, Unix	Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux.	MPL
Tropes Zoom	Windows	Semantic Search Engine.	Freeware and commercial
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, freeware

Usenet

• Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on

Google

• AOL Search

• CompuServe Search

• Groovle

• MySpace Search

• Netscape

• Ripple

Yahoo!

• AltaVista

• Ecocho

• Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)

• Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests - formerly based on Google)

• GoodSearch

• Rectifi

Bing

• A9.com

• Alexa Internet

• Ciao!

• Ecosia

• Facebook

• Ms. Dewey

• Yahoo! Search

Ask.com

• Hakia (semantic search)

• iWon

• Lycos

• Teoma

Acquired or defunct search engines

• AlltheWeb

• BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)

• Btjunkie

• Cuil

• Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)

• Google Answers

• Infoseek

• Inktomi

• Kartoo

• Lotus Magellan

• Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)

• PubSub

• RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)

• Scroogle

• Singingfish

• Sphere

• Tafiti

• Wikia Search

• WiseNut

• World Wide Web Worm

See also

• List of academic databases and search engines

• List of semantic search engines

• List of web directories

• Search aggregator

• Search engine optimization

• Category:Search engine software

References

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

2. ^ According to COPYING in SVN trunk on SourceForge.

3. ^ According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml

4. ^ According to COPYING in SVN trunk.

5. ^ According to [1].

6. ^ According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Internet search engines

• Search Engines at the Open Directory Project

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Metasearch_engines

 

Metasearch engines ex Wiki

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

Name	Language
DeeperWeb	English
Dogpile	English
Excite	English
HotBot	English
Info.com	English
Ixquick (StartPage)	Multilingual
Kayak and SideStep	Multilingual
Mamma
Metacrawler	English
Mobissimo	Multilingual
Otalo	English
PCH Search and Win
Skyscanner	Multilingual
WebCrawler	English
Yippy (formerly Clusty)	English

Geographically limited scope