List Of Search Engines

By content/topic General 

Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)

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Baidu (Chinese)

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Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)

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Cuil

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Duck Duck Go

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Google

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Sogou (Chinese)

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Sohu (Chinese)

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Yahoo! Search

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Yandex (Russian)

Geographical limited scope 

Accoona, China/US

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Alleba, Philippines

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Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ

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Araby, Middle East

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Baidu, China

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Daum, Korea

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Guruji.com, India

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Goo, Japan

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Leit.is, Iceland

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Miner.hu, Hungary

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Najdi.si, Slovenia

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Naver, Korea

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Onkosh, Middle East

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Rambler, Russia

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Rediff, India

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SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique

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Search.ch, Switzerland

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Sesam, Norway, Sweden

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Seznam, Czech Republic

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Walla!, Israel

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Yandex, Russia

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ZipLocal, Canada/US

Accountancy 

IFACnet

Business 

Business.com

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GlobalSpec

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Nexis (Lexis Nexis)

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Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise See also: Enterprise search 

AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution

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Concept Searching Limited: concept search products

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Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation

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dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web

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Endeca: Information Access Platform

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Exalead: exalead one:enterprise

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Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito

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Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)

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Funnelback: Funnelback Search

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ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk

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Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services

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Northern Light

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Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search

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Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g

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SAP: TREX

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TeraText: TeraText Suite

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Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine

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X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search

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ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform

Mobile/Handheld 

Taptu: taptu mobile/social search

Job Main articles: Job search engine and Employment website See also: Category:Job search engines 

Bixee.com (India)

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CareerBuilder.com (USA)

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Craigslist (by city)

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Dice.com (Technology Professionals)

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Eluta.ca (Canada)

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Hotjobs.com (USA)

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Incruit (Korea)

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Indeed.com (USA)

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LinkUp.com (USA)

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Monster.com (USA),(India)

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Recruit.net (International)

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SimplyHired.com (USA)

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Naukri.com (India)

Legal 

WestLaw

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Lexis (Lexis Nexis)

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Quicklaw

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Manupatra

Medical 

Bioinformatic Harvester

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Entrez (includes Pubmed)

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EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine

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GenieKnows

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GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)

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Healia

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Searchmedica

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WebMD

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PubGene

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Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)

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VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)

News 

Google News

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Daylife

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MagPortal

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Newslookup

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Nexis (Lexis Nexis)

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Topix.net

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Yahoo! News

People 

PeekYou

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Ex.plode.us

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InfoSpace

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Spock

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Spokeo

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Wink

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Zabasearch.com

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ZoomInfo

Real property 

Fizber.com

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Home.co.uk

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HotPads.com

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Rightmove

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Zillow.com

Video Games 

GenieKnows

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Wazap (Japan)

By information type Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information

Forum 

Omgili

Blog 

Amatomu

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Bloglines

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BlogScope

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IceRocket

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Sphere

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Technorati

Multimedia See also: Multimedia search 

Bing Videos

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blinkx

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FindSounds

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Google Video

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Munax's PlayAudioVideo

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Picsearch

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Pixsta

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Podscope

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Songza

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SeeqPod

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Veveo

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TinEye

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Yahoo! Video

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YouTube

Source code 

Google Code Search

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JExamples

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Koders

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Krugle

BitTorrent These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol. 

Btjunkie

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Demonoid

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FlixFlux

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Isohunt

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Mininova

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The Pirate Bay

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TorrentSpy

Email 

TEK

Maps 

Bing Maps

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Géoportail

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Google Maps

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MapQuest

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Yahoo! Maps

Price 

Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)

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Kelkoo

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MSN Shopping

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MySimon

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PriceGrabber

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PriceRunner

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PriceSCAN

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Shopping.com

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ShopWiki

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Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)

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TheFind.com

Question and answer Human answers 

Answers.com

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eHow

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Uclue

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Yahoo! Answers

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Stack Overflow

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DeeperWeb

Automatic answers See also: Question answering 

AskMeNow

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BrainBoost

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True Knowledge

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Wolfram Alpha

Natural language See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search 

Ask.com

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Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)

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BrainBoost

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hakia

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Lexxe

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Powerset

By model Open source search engines 

DataparkSearch

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Egothor

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Gonzui

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Grub

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Ht://dig

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Isearch

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Lucene

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Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine

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mnoGoSearch

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Namazu

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Nutch

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OpenFTS

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Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)

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Sphinx

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SWISH-E

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Terrier Search Engine

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Wikia Search

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Xapian

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YaCy

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Zettair

Semantic browsing engines 

Evri

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Hakia

Social search engines See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine

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ChaCha Search

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Delver

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EarthFrisk.org

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Eurekster

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Mahalo.com

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OneRiot

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Rollyo

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Sproose

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Trexy

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Wikia search

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Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines See also: Metasearch engine 

Brainboost

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ChunkIt!

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Clusty

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Dogpile

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Excite

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Harvester42

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HotBot

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Info.com

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Ixquick

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Kayak

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LeapFish

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Mamma

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Metacrawler

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MetaLib

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Mobissimo

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Myriad Search

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SideStep

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Turbo10

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WebCrawler

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DeeperWeb

Visual search engines 

ChunkIt!

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Grokker

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Kartoo

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Pixsta

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PubGene

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Viewzi

Search Appliances 

Google: Google Search Appliance

Desktop search engines See also: Desktop search Name

Platform

Remarks

License

Ask.com

Windows

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Freeware

Autonomy

Windows

IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search.

Proprietary, commercial

Beagle

Linux

A mix of theX11/MIT Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene Licenseand the Apache License

Copernic Desktop Search

Windows

Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark study.[1]

Docco

cross-platform (Java)

Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and BSD

Free for home use

it requires aJava Runtime Environment.

License [2]

Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene

Eclipse Public License

Docfetcher

Cross-platform

dtSearch Desktop

Windows

Proprietary (30 day trial)

Easyfind

Mac OS

Freeware

Filehawk

Windows

Indexes and searches files' content in computers, networks and removabledata storage devices

Proprietary (30 day trial)

Gaviri Windows PocketSearch

Indexes desktop, network drives and portable devices.

Freeware or commercial

Google Desktop

Linux, Mac OS,Windows

Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Release now supports x64 systems.

Freeware

GNOME Storage

Linux

Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux

GPL

imgSeek

Linux, Mac OS,Windows Desktop content-based image search

GPL v2 [3]

InSight Desktop Search

Windows

Metadata-based search utility

Freeware

ISYS Search Windows Software

ISYS:desktop search software.

Proprietary (14 day trial)

Likasoft Archivarius 3000

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Proprietary (30 day trial)

Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux

GPL v2 [4]

Windows

Meta Tracker Linux, Unix

Spotlight

Mac OS

Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary

Strigi

Linux, Unix, Solaris,Mac Cross-platform open source desktop search engine OS X andWindows

Terrier Search Engine

Linux, Mac OS,Unix

LGPL v2 [5]

Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux.

MPL

Tropes Zoom Windows

Semantic Search Engine.

Freeware and commercial

Windows Search

Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available as Windows Proprietary, Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003. Does not freeware support indexing UNC paths on x64 systems.

Windows

X1 Professional Windows Client

Formerly Yahoo Desktop Search, then X1 Desktop Search, then X1 Enterprise Client

Usenet 

Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on Google 

AOL Search

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CompuServe Search

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MySpace Search

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Netscape

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Ripple

Yahoo!

Proprietary (30 day trial)

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AltaVista

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AlltheWeb

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Ecocho

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Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests)

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GoodSearch

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Rectifi

Bing 

A9.com

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Alexa Internet

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Tafiti

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Ms. Dewey

Ask.com 

Hakia (semantic search)

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iWon

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Lycos

Acquired or defunct search engines 

BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)

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Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)

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Google Answers

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Infoseek

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Inktomi

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Lotus Magellan

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Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)

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PubSub

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Singingfish

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Teoma

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Wikia Search

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WiseNut

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World Wide Web Worm