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

Name Language Data Source
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
Petal Multilingual Huawei
Presearch Multilingual Presearch
Qwant Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Sogou Multilingual Tencent
Startpage English Google
Swisscows Multilingual Microsoft Bing
WebCrawler English Microsoft Bing
Yahoo! Search† Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Yandex Multilingual Yandex
Yep English Yep
Youdao† Chinese NetEase
You.com English Microsoft Bing

Open Source

Name Language License
Opensearch Multilingual Apache License 2.0
SearXNG Multilingual GNU Affero General Public License
YaCy Multilingual GNU GPL-2.0-or-later

Geographically localized

Name Language Country
Accoona Chinese, English China, United States
BIGLOBE Japanese Japan
Daum Korean Korea
Nate Korean Korea
Egerin Kurdish Sweden[1][2][3]
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
  • Thomasnet (United States)
  • Justdial (India)

Computers

  • Shodan (website)

Content

  • Openverse, search engine for open content.

Dark web

Main article: Dark web
  • Ahmia

Education

Enterprise

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

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)

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

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

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[4])
  • 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.

Name Platform Remarks License
HP Autonomy Windows IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.[5] Proprietary, commercial
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. Proprietary (30 day trial)
DocFetcher Cross-platform Open-source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene Eclipse Public
dtSearch Desktop Windows Proprietary (30 day trial)
Everything Windows Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes Freeware
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 GPL
Google Desktop Linux, macOS, Windows Integrates with main Google search engine page; discontinued by Google September 14, 2011 Freeware
ISYS Search Software Windows ISYS:Desktop search software Proprietary (14-day trial)
KRunner Linux
Locate32 Windows Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb BSD[6]
Lookeen Windows Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. Proprietary (14-day trial)[7]
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 GPL[8]
Spotlight macOS Found in Apple macOS "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary
Strigi Linux, Unix, Solaris, macOS, Windows Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02[9]. LGPL v2[10]
Terrier Search Engine Linux, macOS, Unix Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X Tiger, Unix/Linux. Mozilla Public v1.1[11]
Tracker Linux, Unix Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2[12]
Tropes Zoom Windows Semantic Search Engine (no longer available)[13] Freeware and commercial
Unity Dash Linux Was part of Ubuntu Desktop GPL v3,[14] LGPL v2.1[15]
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 x86-64 systems. Proprietary
X1 Desktop Search Windows Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search Proprietary (14-day trial)[16]
Wumpus Cross platform Desktop search focused on information retrieval research GPL

Child-safe search engines

  • Kiddle
  • KidRex
  • QwantJunior
  • Swisscows

Metasearch engines

Name Language
Dogpile English
Excite English
Info.com English
Kayak.com Multilingual
MetaCrawler English
MetaGer Multilingual
Mobissimo Multilingual
Otalo.com English
PCH Search and Win
SearXNG Multilingual
Skyscanner Multilingual
Wego.com Multilingual

Natural language

  • Ask.com
  • Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
  • Lexxe
  • Perplexity.ai
  • SearchGPT

Open-source search engines

  • ht://Dig
  • Isearch
  • Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
  • Lucene
  • mnoGoSearch
  • Nutch
  • Openverse
  • Recoll
  • Searchdaimon
  • SearXNG
  • Seeks
  • Sphinx
  • SWISH-E
  • Terrier Search Engine
  • Xapian
  • YaCy
  • Zettair


Web search engine

  • Gigablast
  • Grub


P2P search engines

Name Language
Seeks (open-source) English
YaCy (free and fully decentralized) Multilingual

Privacy search engines

  • Brave Search
  • DuckDuckGo
  • HotBot
  • Kagi
  • MetaGer
  • Mojeek
  • Presearch
  • Qwant
  • SearXNG
  • Startpage.com
  • Swisscows
  • You.com
  • Epic (web browser)

Social and environmental focus

Semantic browsing engines

Name Description Speciality
Evi Specialises in knowledge base and semantic search answer engine
Swoogle Searching over 10,000 ontologies Semantic web documents
Yebol defunct
Yummly Semantic web search for food, cooking, and recipes food related

Social search engines

  • ChaCha Search
  • Delver
  • Eurekster
  • Facebook Search
  • Mahalo.com
  • Rollyo
  • Sproose
  • Trexy

Usenet

  • Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Visual search engines

  • FindFace
  • Grokker
  • Macroglossa
  • TinEye
  • Viewzi

By popularity

Main article: List of search engines by popularity

Defunct or acquired search engines

Name Backend ownership Demise
iWon Ask.com Shut down after AT&T merger
Teoma Ask.com Merged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms
A9.com Microsoft Bing Redirect to Amazon homepage (parent company)
AOL Google until 2015, then Microsoft Bing Merged to Yahoo!
Alexa Internet Microsoft Bing Bought by Amazon in 1999, shut down in 2021
Ciao! Microsoft Bing Shut down in 2018
Ms. Dewey Microsoft Bing January 2009
Groovle Google Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity
Mamma.com Copernic
MySpace Search Google Function taken over by Google in 2006
Mystery Seeker Google Novelty "search"; went offline in 2017
Netscape Google Now redirects to AOL
Ripple Google as of 2017 at the latest
Ecocho Google, then Yahoo!
Forestle Google, then Yahoo! Redirected to Ecosia in 2011
Searx open-source SearXNG is defacto successor
Yippy IBM Watson Re-branded in 2023 as Togoda.com[17][18]
Grams Grams (anonymous owner) Closed in 2017
Gigablast English Website went offline in 2023, as reported by Mojeek.[19]
  • AlltheWeb (acquired by Yahoo!)
  • AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
  • Bixee.com (India) (acquired by Ibibo)
  • Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products)[20]
  • BlogScope (acquired by Marketwire)
  • BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)
  • Btjunkie
  • Cuil (patents acquired by Google after shutdown)
  • DeepPeep
  • Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
  • Getit Infoservices Private Limited
  • Google Answers
  • GoPubMed
  • hakia
  • IBM STAIRS
  • Infoseek (acquired by Disney)
  • Inktomi
  • Ixquick (merged into Startpage)
  • Jubii
  • Kartoo
  • LeapFish
  • Lotus Magellan
  • MetaLib
  • mozDex
  • Munax
  • Myriad Search
  • Neeva (acquired by Snowflake)
  • 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 (acquired by AOL)
  • Soso
  • Speechbot
  • Sphere (acquired by AOL)
  • Startpage (acquired by System1, an advertising company)
  • Tafiti (replaced by Microsoft Bing)
  • Volunia[21]
  • Wikia Search
  • WiseNut
  • World Wide Web Worm

See also

  • List of academic databases and search engines
  • List of web directories
  • Search aggregator – Type of metasearch engine
  • Search engine optimization – Practice and strategies of increasing online visibility
  • Category:Search engine software

References

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  2. ^ "First Kurdish Search Engine, Egerin, Is Launched". SBWire. 30 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. ^ "This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google". Vice.com. 18 March 2016.
  4. ^ Sullivan, Danny (April 18, 2007). "Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  5. ^ "HP Universal Search". Archived from the original on 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  6. ^ "Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100". softpedia. 20 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Lookeen 10". Lookeen. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  8. ^ According to Recoll
  9. ^ See "Strigi's Release Files". Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  10. ^ COPYING inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.
  11. ^ "Terrier License". GitHub. 13 November 2021.
  12. ^ According to COPYING Deprecated link archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today in SVN trunk.
  13. ^ "Retrieved 15 August 2015". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  14. ^ "Unity on GitHub". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Required License Files". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
  16. ^ "X1 Search 8". X1 Technologies. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  17. ^ "At Togoda, we are revolutionizing the search experience through advanced thematic AI exploration. | Togoda AI Search Engine". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2025-07-22.
  18. ^ "Togoda Search Engine - The Educated Choice for Search". Togoda. Retrieved 2025-07-22.
  19. ^ "Farewell Gigablast (for now?)". blog.mojeek.com.
  20. ^ "Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It". 27 March 2015.
  21. ^ "Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita". MRW.it News. 11 April 2014.
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