List of search engines
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 ![]() |
Baidu | Chinese | Baidu ![]() |
Brave Search | Multilingual | Brave ![]() |
Dogpile | English | Metasearch engine |
DuckDuckGo | Multilingual | Multiple, including Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Ecosia | Multilingual | Google and Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Elasticsearch | Multilingual | Template:Background until 2021, then Elasticsearch |
Exalead | Multilingual | Cloudview ![]() |
Excite† | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Gigablast | English | Template:Open source |
Multilingual | Google ![]() | |
HotBot | English | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Kagi | English | Metasearch engine and Kagi Inc ![]() |
Lycos | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
MetaCrawler | English | Metasearch engine |
Microsoft Bing | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Mojeek | Multilingual | Mojeek ![]() |
Opensearch | Multilingual | Template:Open source |
Petal | Multilingual | Huawei ![]() |
Qmamu.com | Multilingual | Qmamu.com |
Qwant | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Searx | Multilingual | Metasearch engine |
Sogou | Multilingual | Tencent ![]() |
Startpage | English | Google ![]() |
Swisscows | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
WebCrawler | English | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
YaCy | Multilingual | Template:Open source |
Yahoo! Search† | Multilingual | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
Yandex | Multilingual | Yandex ![]() |
Youdao† | Chinese | NetEase ![]() |
You.com | English | Microsoft Bing ![]() |
13tabs.com | Multilingual | 13Tabs |
† 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]
- Business.com
- Daily Stocks
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
Computers[edit]
Content[edit]
- Openverse, search engine for open content.
Dark web[edit]
Education[edit]
General:
Academic materials only:
Enterprise[edit]
- 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[edit]
Food and recipes[edit]
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- Yummly: semantic recipe search
Genealogy[edit]
- Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Job[edit]
- 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[edit]
Medical[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Taganode Local Search Engine (now defunct)
- Taptu: taptu mobile/social search (now defunct)
News[edit]
People[edit]
Real estate/property[edit]
Television[edit]
Travel[edit]
Video[edit]
Video games[edit]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ "First Kurdish Search Engine, Egerin, Is Launched". SBWire. 30 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ "This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google". www.vice.com. 18 March 2016.