ବ୍ୟବହାରକାରୀ:Snip1/List of search engines

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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.

By content/topic

General

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

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

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

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

Accountancy

IFACnet

Business

Enterprise

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

Job

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

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
WebMD

News

People

Real estate / property

Television

TV Genius

Video Games

Wazap (Japan)

By information type

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum

Omgili

Blog

Multimedia

Source code

BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Cloud

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

Open Drive

Email

Lookeen
TEK

Maps

Price

Bing Shopping
Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle)
Kelkoo
MySimon
PriceGrabber
PriceRunner
PriceSCAN
Pronto.com
Shopping.com
ShopWiki
Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
SwoopThat.com
TheFind.com

Question and answer

Human answers

Automatic answers

Natural language

Ask.com
Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
hakia
Lexxe
Qrobe.it (and Privatelee.com)

By model

Privacy search engines

DuckDuckGo
Ixquick (and startpage.com)
Qrobe.it (and Privatelee.com)

Open source search engines

DataparkSearch
Gigablast
Grub
ht://Dig
Isearch
Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
Lucene
mnoGoSearch
Namazu
Nutch
Recoll
Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
Searchdaimon
Seeks
Sphinx
SWISH-E
Terrier Search Engine
Xapian
YaCy
Zettair

Semantic browsing engines

Hakia
Yebol

Social search engines

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

Search appliances

Desktop search engines

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^[୧]
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 ^[୨]
Recoll	Linux, Unix	Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux	GPL ^[୩]
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 ^[୪]
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

Usenet

Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on

Google

Yahoo!

Ecocho
Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)
Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests - formerly based on Google)
GoodSearch
Rectifi

Bing

Ask.com

Hakia (semantic search)
iWon
Lycos
Teoma

Defunct or acquired search engines

AlltheWeb
AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
Brainboost (Public engine no longer exists, acquired by Answers, Inc.)
BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
Btjunkie
Cuil
ChunkIt! (now "yolink!") (Public engine no longer exists)
Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
Google Answers
IBM STAIRS
Infoseek
Inktomi
Kartoo
LeapFish (Public engine no longer exists)
Lotus Magellan
MetaLib (Public engine no longer exists)
mozDex (No longer exists)
Myriad Search (No longer exists)
Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
PubSub
RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer and now owned by Microsoft)
Scroogle (Google Scraper)
Singingfish
Speechbot
Sphere
Tafiti
Yebol
Wikia Search (defunct)
WiseNut
World Wide Web Worm

References

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

External links

Search Engines at Curlie

[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.

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