List of Search Engines, Major Search Engines, Search Engine Listing

General Search Engines List

  • Alexa Internet
  • Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)
  • Baidu (Chinese)
  • Cuil
  • Exalead (French)
  • Google
  • Live Search (formerly MSN Search)
  • Sogou (Chinese)
  • Sohu (Chinese)
  • Wikia Search
  • Yahoo! Search

Seach Engines List of Geographical limited scope

  • Accoona, China/US
  • Alleba, Philippines
  • Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
  • Araby, Middle East
  • Baidu, China
  • Daum, Korea
  • Guruji.com, India
  • Goo, Japan
  • Leit.is, Iceland
  • Miner.hu, Hungary
  • Najdi.si, Slovenia
  • Naver, Korea
  • Onkosh, Middle East
  • Rambler, Russia
  • Rediff, India
  • SAPO, Portugal
  • Search.ch, Switzerland
  • Sesam, Norway, Sweden
  • Walla!, Israel
  • Yandex, Russia
  • ZipLocal, Canada/US

Seach Engines List of Accountancy

  • IFACnet

Seach Engines List of Business

  • Business.com
  • GlobalSpec
  • Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Thomasnet (United States)

Seach Engines List of Enterprise

  • AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
  • Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
  • 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
  • ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
  • 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

Seach Engines List of Search Appliances

Seach Engines List of Job

  • Bixee.com (India)
  • CareerBuilder.com (USA)
  • Craigslist (by city)
  • Eluta.ca (Canada)
  • Hotjobs.com (USA)
  • Incruit (Korea)
  • Indeed.com (USA)
  • Monster.com (USA)
  • Recruit.net (International)
  • SimplyHired.com (USA)
  • TheLadders.com (USA)

Seach Engines List of Legal

  • WestLaw
  • Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Quicklaw

Seach Engines List of Medical

  • Bioinformatic Harvester
  • Entrez (includes Pubmed)
  • EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine
  • GenieKnows
  • GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
  • Healia
  • Searchmedica
  • WebMD
  • PubGene
  • Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)

Seach Engines List of News

  • Google News
  • Daylife
  • MagPortal
  • Newslookup
  • Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
  • Topix.net
  • Yahoo! News

Seach Engines List of People

  • PeekYou
  • Ex.plode.us
  • InfoSpace
  • Spock (website)
  • Spokeo
  • Wink
  • Zabasearch.com
  • ZoomInfo

Seach Engines List of Real property

  • Fizber.com
  • Home.co.uk
  • HotPads.com
  • Properazzi
  • Rightmove
  • Zillow.com

Seach Engines List of Video Games

  • GenieKnows
  • Wazap

Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Seach Engines List of Forum

  • Omgili

Seach Engines List of Blog

  • Amatomu
  • Bloglines
  • BlogScope
  • IceRocket
  • Sphere
  • Technorati

Seach Engines List of Multimedia

  • blinkx
  • FindSounds
  • Google Video
  • Picsearch
  • Podscope
  • SeeqPod
  • Veveo
  • YouTube
  • Pixsta
  • Munax PlayAudioVideo
  • Yahoo! Video

Seach Engines List of Source code

  • Google Code Search
  • JExamples
  • Koders
  • Krugle

Seach Engines List of BitTorrent

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

  • Btjunkie
  • Demonoid
  • FlixFlux
  • Isohunt
  • Mininova
  • The Pirate Bay
  • TorrentSpy

Seach Engines List of Email

  • Nicado
  • TEK

Seach Engines List of Maps

  • Geoportail
  • Google Maps
  • MapQuest
  • Live Search Maps
  • Yahoo! Maps

Seach Engines List of Price

  • Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
  • Kelkoo
  • MSN Shopping
  • MySimon
  • PriceGrabber
  • PriceRunner
  • Shopping.com
  • ShopWiki
  • Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
  • TheFind.com

Seach Engines List of Question and answer

  • Answers.com
  • AskMeNow
  • BrainBoost
  • eHow
  • hakia
  • Lexxe
  • Lycos iQ
  • Powerset
  • Live Search QnA
  • Uclue
  • Yahoo! Answers

By model

Open source search engines

  • DataparkSearch
  • Egothor
  • Gonzui
  • Grub
  • Ht://dig
  • Isearch
  • Lucene
  • Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
  • mnoGoSearch
  • Namazu
  • Nutch
  • OpenFTS
  • Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
  • Sphinx
  • SWISH-E
  • Terrier Search Engine
  • Wikia Search
  • Xapian
  • YaCy
  • Zettair

Social search engines

  • ChaCha Search
  • Delver
  • Eurekster
  • Mahalo.com
  • OneRiot
  • Rollyo
  • Trexy
  • Wikia search
  • Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines

  • Brainboost
  • ChunkIt!
  • Clusty
  • Dogpile
  • Excite
  • Harvester42
  • HotBot
  • Info.com
  • Ixquick
  • Kayak
  • Mamma
  • Metacrawler
  • MetaLib
  • Mobissimo
  • Myriad Search
  • SideStep
  • Turbo10
  • WebCrawler
  • LeapFish

Visual search engines

  • ChunkIt!
  • Grokker
  • Kartoo
  • Pixsta
  • PubGene

Usenet

  • Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on

Google

  • AOL Search
  • Click4Carbon
  • CompuServe Search
  • MySpace Search
  • Netscape
  • Ripple

Yahoo!

  • AltaVista
  • AlltheWeb
  • GoodSearch
  • Rectifi

Live Search

  • A9.com
  • Tafiti
  • Ms. Dewey

Ask.com

  • Hakia (semantic search)
  • iWon
  • Lycos

Acquired or defunct search engines

  • BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
  • Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
  • Google Answers
  • Infoseek
  • Inktomi
  • Lotus Magellan
  • Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
  • PubSub
  • Singingfish
  • Teoma
  • WiseNut
  • World Wide Web Worm
  • Excite (now a metasearch)
  • WebCrawler (now a metasearch)