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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

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Name Language Data Source
Ask.com (defunct)Multilingual Google
BaiduChinese Baidu
Brave SearchMultilingual Brave
DogpileEnglish Metasearch engine
DuckDuckGoMultilingual Multiple
EcosiaMultilingual Google and Microsoft Bing
ExaleadMultilingual Cloudview
Excite†Multilingual Microsoft Bing
GoogleMultilingual Google
HotBotEnglish Microsoft Bing
KagiEnglish Metasearch engine and Kagi
LycosMultilingual Microsoft Bing
MetaCrawlerEnglish Metasearch engine
Microsoft BingMultilingual Microsoft Bing
MojeekMultilingual Mojeek
PetalMultilingual Huawei
PresearchMultilingual Metasearch engine and Presearch
QwantMultilingual Microsoft Bing
SogouMultilingual Tencent
StartpageEnglish Google
SwisscowsMultilingual Microsoft Bing
WebCrawlerEnglish Microsoft Bing
Yahoo! Search†Multilingual Microsoft Bing
YandexMultilingual Yandex
Yep English Yep
Youdao†Chinese NetEase
You.comEnglish Microsoft Bing

Open Source

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Name Language License
Elasticsearch Multilingual Elastic License
Server Side Public License
GNU Affero General Public License
OpensearchMultilingualApache License 2.0
SearXNGMultilingual GNU Affero General Public License
YaCyMultilingualGNU GPL-2.0-or-later

Geographically localized

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NameLanguageCountry
AccoonaChinese, EnglishChina, United States
BIGLOBEJapaneseJapan
DaumKorean Korea
NateKorean Korea
EgerinKurdishSweden[1][2][3]
FireballGerman, EnglishGermany
GooJapaneseJapan
Leit.isIcelandic, EnglishIceland
Najdi.siSlovenianSlovenia
NaverKoreanKorea
Parsijoo (defunct)PersianIran
Pipilika (defunct)Bengali, EnglishBangladesh
RamblerRussianRussia
RediffIndia
SAPOPortuguesePortugal
Search.chSwitzerland
Sesam (defunct)Norway, Sweden
SeznamCzechCzech Republic
Walla!Israel
Yahoo JapanJapaneseJapan (Google backend)
YongzinTibetanChina
ZipLocalEnglishCanada, United States

Business

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Computers

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Content

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Dark web

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Education

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Enterprise

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Events

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

Food and recipes

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Genealogy

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Job

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Medical

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Mobile/handheld

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News

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People

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Real estate/property

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Television

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Travel

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Video

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Video games

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By data type

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Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Datasets

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Maps

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Multimedia

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Price

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Source code

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BitTorrent

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These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

Blog

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By model

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Search appliances

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Desktop search engines

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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

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Metasearch engines

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NameLanguage
DogpileEnglish
ExciteEnglish
Info.comEnglish
Kayak.comMultilingual
MetaCrawlerEnglish
MetaGerMultilingual
MobissimoMultilingual
Otalo.comEnglish
PCH Search and Win
SearXNG Multilingual
SkyscannerMultilingual
Wego.comMultilingual

Natural language

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Open-source search engines

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Web search engine

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P2P search engines

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

Privacy search engines

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Social and environmental focus

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Semantic browsing engines

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NameDescriptionSpeciality
EviSpecialises in knowledge base and semantic searchanswer engine
SwoogleSearching over 10,000 ontologiesSemantic web documents
Yeboldefunct
YummlySemantic web search for food, cooking, and recipesfood related

Social search engines

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Usenet

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Visual search engines

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By popularity

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Defunct or acquired search engines

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NameBackend ownershipDemise
iWonAsk.comShut down after AT&T merger[citation needed]
TeomaAsk.comMerged to Ask.com which still uses its algorithms
A9.comMicrosoft BingRedirect to Amazon homepage (parent company)
AOLGoogle until 2015, then Microsoft BingMerged to Yahoo!
Alexa InternetMicrosoft BingBought by Amazon in 1999, shut down in 2021
Ciao!Microsoft BingShut down in 2018
Ms. DeweyMicrosoft BingJanuary 2009
GroovleGoogleTaken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity
Mamma.com Copernic
MySpace SearchGoogleFunction taken over by Google in 2006
Mystery SeekerGoogleNovelty "search"; went offline in 2017
NetscapeGoogleNow redirects to AOL
RippleGoogleas of 2017 at the latest
EcochoGoogle, then Yahoo!
ForestleGoogle, 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]

See also

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References

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  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". 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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