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Search engines encompass various types, such as web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, as well as web portals and websites focused on specific markets. All of these platforms provide a search functionality to access online databases.
Search engines encompass various types, such as web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, as well as web portals and websites focused on specific markets. All of these platforms provide a search functionality to access online databases.
== By content/topic ==
=== General ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Language
!Backend ownership
|-
|[[Ask.com]]|| Multilingual
|Google {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Baidu]]|| [[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|Baidu {{flagicon|PRC}}
|-
|[[Brave Search]] || Multilingual
|Brave {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Dogpile]]|| English
|[[Metasearch engine]]
|-
|[[DuckDuckGo]]|| Multilingual
|Multiple, including Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Ecosia]]|| Multilingual
|Google and Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Elasticsearch]]|| Multilingual||{{background|palegreen|[[Apache 2.0]]}} until 2021, then Elasticsearch
|-
|[[Exalead]]|| Multilingual
|Cloudview {{flagicon|France}}
|-
|[[Excite (web portal)|Excite]]†|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Gigablast]]|| [[English language|English]]
|{{open source|[[Apache License 2.0]]}}
|-
|[[Google Search|Google]]|| Multilingual
|Google {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[HotBot]]|| English
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Kagi (search engine)|Kagi]]||English
|[[Metasearch engine]] and Kagi Inc {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Lycos]]|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[MetaCrawler]]|| English
|[[Metasearch engine]]
|-
|[[Microsoft Bing]]|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Mojeek]]|| Multilingual
|Mojeek {{flagicon|UK}}
|-
|[[OpenSearch (software)|Opensearch]]|| Multilingual || {{open source|[[Apache License 2.0]] (Elasticsearch fork)}}
|-
|[[Petal Search|Petal]]|| Multilingual
|Huawei {{flagicon|PRC}}
|-
| [[Qmamu.com]]|| Multilingual
| [https://www.Qmamu.com Qmamu.com] {{flagicon|India}}
|-
|[[Qwant]]|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Searx]]|| Multilingual
|[[Metasearch engine]]
|-
|[[Sogou]]|| Multilingual
|Tencent {{flagicon|PRC}}
|-
|[[Startpage.com|Startpage]]|| English
|Google {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Swisscows]]|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[WebCrawler]]|| English
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[YaCy]]|| Multilingual || {{open source|[[GPL-2.0-or-later]]}}
|-
|[[Yahoo! Search]]†|| Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[Yandex Search|Yandex]]|| Multilingual
|Yandex {{flagicon|Russian Federation}}
|-
|[[Youdao]]†|| [[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|NetEase {{flagicon|PRC}}
|-
|[[You.com]] || English
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}}
|-
|[[13tabs.com]] || Multilingual
| [https://www.13Tabs.com 13Tabs] {{flagicon|India}}
|}
<nowiki>†</nowiki> Main website is a portal
===Geographically localized===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Language !! Country
|-
| [[Accoona]] || [[Chinese language|Chinese]], [[English language|English]] || [[China]], [[United States]]
|-
| [[Biglobe]] || [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || [[Japan]]
|-
| [[Daum Communications|Daum]] || [[Korean language|Korean]]
|| [[Korea]]
|-
| [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] || [[Korean language|Korean]]
|| [[Korea]]
|-
| [[Egerin]] || [[Kurdish language|Kurdish]]|| [[Sweden]]<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine |url=http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193541/http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007 |archive-date=2014-01-02 |accessdate=1 January 2014 |publisher=Bas News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=30 December 2013 |title=First Kurdish Search Engine, Egerin, Is Launched |url=http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/egerin/sbwire-421932.htm |accessdate=1 January 2014 |publisher=SBWire}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=18 March 2016 |title=This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/4xaxxd/meet-the-kurdish-entrepreneur-making-a-google-for-the-kurds |website=www.vice.com |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[Fireball (search engine)|Fireball]] || [[German language|German]], [[English language|English]] || [[Germany]]
|-
| [[Goo (search engine)|Goo]] || [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || [[Japan]]
|-
| [[Leit.is]] ||[[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[English language|English]] || [[Iceland]]
|-
| [[Najdi.si]] || [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]]|| [[Slovenia]]
|-
| [[Naver]] || [[Korean language|Korean]] || [[Korea]]
|-
| [[Parsijoo]] || [[Persian language|Persian]] || [[Iran]]
|-
| [[Pipilika]] (defunct) || [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[English language|English]] || [[Bangladesh]]
|-
| [[Rambler (portal)|Rambler]] || [[Russian language|Russian]] || [[Russia]]
|-
| [[Rediff]] || || [[India]]
|-
| [[Search.ch]] || || [[Switzerland]]
|-
| [[Sesam (search engine)|Sesam]] (defunct) || || [[Norway]], [[Sweden]]
|-
| [[Seznam]] || [[Czech language|Czech]] || [[Czech Republic]]
|-
| [[Walla!]] || || [[Israel]]
|-
| [[Yahoo! Japan]] || [[Japanese language|Japanese]] || [[Japan]] (Google backend)
|-
| [[Yongzin]] || [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] || [[China]]
|-
| [[ZipLocal]] || [[English language|English]] || [[Canada]], [[United States]]
|}
=== Accountancy ===
* [[IFACnet]]
=== Business ===
* [[Business.com]]
* [[Daily Stocks]]
* [[GenieKnows]] (United States and [[Canada]])
* [[GlobalSpec]]
* [[LexisNexis|Nexis (Lexis Nexis)]]
* [[Thomasnet]] ([[United States]])
=== Computers ===
* [[Shodan (website)]]
=== Content ===
* [[Openverse]], search engine for open content.
=== Dark web ===
{{main|Dark web}}
* [[Ahmia]]
=== Education ===
General:
* [[Chegg]]
Academic materials only:
* [[BASE (search engine)]]
* [[Google Scholar]]
* [[Internet Archive Scholar]]
* [[Library of Congress]]
* [[Semantic Scholar]]
=== Enterprise ===
{{See also|Enterprise search}}
*[[Apache Solr]]
* [[Jumper 2.0]]: Universal search powered by [[Enterprise bookmarking]]
* [[Oracle Corporation]]: 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 [[recipe]]s
* [[Yummly]]: semantic recipe search
=== Genealogy ===
* [[Mocavo.com]]: family history search engine
=== Job ===
{{Main|Job search engine}}
* [[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)
* [[Rozee.pk]] (Pakistan)
* [[Yahoo! HotJobs]] (Countrywise subdomains, International)
=== Legal ===
* [[Google Scholar]]
* [[LexisNexis|Lexis (Lexis Nexis)]]
* [[Quicklaw]]
* [[WestLaw]]
=== 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 ===
* [[Bing News]]
* [[Google News]]
* [[Priyo]]
* [[Yahoo! News]]
=== People ===
* [[Whitepages (company)|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]]
== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== Read also ==
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]
* [[List of web directories]]
* [[Search aggregator]]
* [[Search engine optimization]]
* [[:Category:Search engine software]]

Latest revision as of 22:53, 25 February 2025

Search engines encompass various types, such as web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, as well as web portals and websites focused on specific markets. All of these platforms provide a search functionality to access online databases.

By content/topic[edit]

General[edit]

Name Language Backend ownership
Ask.com Multilingual Google United States
Baidu Chinese Baidu China
Brave Search Multilingual Brave United States
Dogpile English Metasearch engine
DuckDuckGo Multilingual Multiple, including Microsoft Bing United States
Ecosia Multilingual Google and Microsoft Bing United States
Elasticsearch Multilingual Template:Background until 2021, then Elasticsearch
Exalead Multilingual Cloudview France
Excite† Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
Gigablast English Template:Open source
Google Multilingual Google United States
HotBot English Microsoft Bing United States
Kagi English Metasearch engine and Kagi Inc United States
Lycos Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
MetaCrawler English Metasearch engine
Microsoft Bing Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
Mojeek Multilingual Mojeek United Kingdom
Opensearch Multilingual Template:Open source
Petal Multilingual Huawei China
Qmamu.com Multilingual Qmamu.com India
Qwant Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
Searx Multilingual Metasearch engine
Sogou Multilingual Tencent China
Startpage English Google United States
Swisscows Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
WebCrawler English Microsoft Bing United States
YaCy Multilingual Template:Open source
Yahoo! Search† Multilingual Microsoft Bing United States
Yandex Multilingual Yandex Russia
Youdao† Chinese NetEase China
You.com English Microsoft Bing United States
13tabs.com Multilingual 13Tabs India

† Main website is a portal

Geographically localized[edit]

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 Persian Iran
Pipilika (defunct) Bengali, English Bangladesh
Rambler Russian Russia
Rediff India
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

Accountancy[edit]

Business[edit]

Computers[edit]

Content[edit]

Dark web[edit]

Main article: Dark web

Education[edit]

General:

Academic materials only:

Enterprise[edit]

See also: Enterprise search

Events[edit]

  • Tickex (US, UK)
  • TickX (UK, Ireland, Spain, Netherlands)

Food and recipes[edit]

Genealogy[edit]

Job[edit]

Main article: Job search engine

Legal[edit]

Medical[edit]

Mobile/handheld[edit]

News[edit]

People[edit]

Real estate/property[edit]

Television[edit]

Travel[edit]

Video[edit]

Video games[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  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". www.vice.com. 18 March 2016.

Read also[edit]

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