This is a list of 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.

No. Name Language Website
1 Baidu Chinese, Japanese baidu.com
2 Bing Multilingual bing.com
3 Blekko English blekko.com
4 DuckDuckGo English duckduckgo.com
5 Exalead Multilingual exalead.com/search
6 Gigablast English gigablast.com
7 Google Multilingual google.com
8 Qrobe (and Privatelee.com) English grobe.it
9 Sogou Chinese sogou.com
10 Soso.com Chinese soso.com
11 Volunia Multilingual volunia.com
12 Yahoo! Multilingual search.yahoo.com
13 Yandex Multilingual yandex.com
14 Youdao Chinese youdao.com

P2P search engines

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No. Name Language Website
1 FAROO English faroo.com
2 Seeks (Open Source) English [୨]
3 YaCy (Free and fully decentralized) Multilingual yacy.net

Metasearch engines

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No. Name Language Website
1 Blingo English blingo.com
2 Yippy (formerly Clusty) English yippy.com
3 DeeperWeb English DeeperWeb.com
4 Dogpile English dogpile.com
5 Excite English [୩]
6 Harvester42
7 HotBot English hotbot.com
8 Info.com English info.com
9 Ixquick (and startpage.com) Multilingual startpage.com
10 Kayak and SideStep Multilingual kayak.com
11 Mamma mamma.com
12 Metacrawler English metacrawler.com
13 Mobissimo Multilingual mobissimo.com
14 Otalo English otalo.com
15 PCH Search and Win search.pah.com
16 Thiv English thiv.net
17 WebCrawler English webcrawler.com

Geographically limited scope

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No. Name Language Coutntry Website
1 Accoona Chinese, English China, United States
2 Alleba English Philippines alleba.com
3 Ansearch English Australia, United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
4 Biglobe Japanese Japan biglobe.co.jp
5 Daum Korea duam.net
6 Goo Japanese Japan goo.ne.jp
7 Guruji.com India guruji.com
8 Leit.is Iceland
9 Maktoob Arab World
10 Miner.hu Hungary
11 Najdi.si Slovenia
12 Naver Korean Korea naver.com
13 Onkosh Arab World
14 Rambler Russia
15 Rediff India
16 SAPO Portugal, Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique
17 Search.ch Switzerland
18 Sesam Norway, Sweden
19 Seznam Czech Republic
20 Walla! Israel
21 Yandex.ru Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan
22 Yehey! Philippines
23 ZipLocal Canada/United States

Real estate / property

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By information type

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Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Search engines listed below find various types of files that have been stored in the cloud and made publicly available.

Question and answer

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Privacy search engines

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Open source search engines

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Semantic browsing engines

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Social search engines

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Visual search engines

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Desktop search engines

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Name Platform Remarks License
Autonomy Windows IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. 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 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)
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
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[]
Lookeen Windows Outlook Search Tool, with integrated Desktop Search Proprietary (14 day trial)
Meta Tracker Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 []
Recoll Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL []
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 []
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
Unity Dash Linux Part of Ubuntu Desktop. GPL v3
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

Defunct or acquired search engines

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  1. According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
  2. According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
  3. According to [୧].
  4. According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.