List of search engines#Desktop search engines
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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
= General =
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| Name | Language
!Backend ownership | |
|---|---|---|
| Ask.com | Multilingual
|Google {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Baidu | Chinese
|Baidu {{flagicon|PRC}} | |
| Brave Search | Multilingual
|Brave {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Dogpile | English | |
| DuckDuckGo | Multilingual
|Multiple | |
| 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† | Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Gigablast | English
|{{open source|Apache License 2.0}} | |
| Multilingual
|Google {{flagicon|USA}} | ||
| HotBot | English
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Kagi | English
|Metasearch engine and Kagi Inc {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Lycos | Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| MetaCrawler | English | |
| Microsoft Bing | Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| Mojeek | Multilingual
|Mojeek {{flagicon|UK}} | |
| Opensearch | Multilingual | {{open source|Apache License 2.0 (Elasticsearch fork)}} |
| Petal | Multilingual
|Huawei {{flagicon|PRC}} | |
| Qwant | Multilingual
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} | |
| SearXNG | Multilingual | |
| Sogou | Multilingual
|Tencent {{flagicon|PRC}} | |
| 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 | Multilingual
|Yandex {{flagicon|Russian Federation}} | |
| Youdao† | Chinese
|NetEase {{flagicon|PRC}} | |
| You.com | English
|Microsoft Bing {{flagicon|USA}} |
=Geographically localized=
= Accountancy =
= Business =
- Business.com
- Daily Stocks
- GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
- GlobalSpec
- Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
- Thomasnet (United States)
= Computers =
= Content =
- Openverse, search engine for open content.
= Dark web =
{{main|Dark web}}
= Education =
General:
Academic materials only:
= 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 =
=Food and recipes=
- RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes
- 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 =
= 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 =
= Real estate/property =
= Television =
= Travel =
= Video =
= Video games =
By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
=Datasets=
= Maps =
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- Baidu Maps
- Bing Maps
- Géoportail
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- Nokia Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- Petal Maps
- Qwant Maps
- Tencent Maps
- Wikiloc
- WikiMapia
- Yahoo! Maps
- Yandex Maps
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= Multimedia =
{{See also|Multimedia search}}
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- 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
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= Price =
{{Div col}}
- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Danny |title=Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search! |url=https://searchengineland.com/goodbye-froogle-hello-google-product-search-11001 |access-date=3 June 2018 |agency=Search Engine Land |date=April 18, 2007}})
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- Shopzilla
- TickX
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= Source code =
= BitTorrent =
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- BTDigg
- Isohunt - discontinued
- Mininova - discontinued
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy - discontinued
- Torrentz - discontinued
= Blog =
By model
= Search appliances =
{{main|Search appliance}}
- 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.
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align=left;"
! Name ! Platform ! Remarks ! License |
| HP Autonomy
| Windows | IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search, HP Autonomy Universal Search.{{cite web |url=http://www.autonomy.com/products/universal-search |title=HP Universal Search |access-date=2014-07-01 |archive-date=2015-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516141232/http://www.autonomy.com/products/universal-search |url-status=dead }} | {{proprietary|Proprietary, commercial}} |
|---|
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Beagle
| Linux | Open-source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene. Unmaintained since 2009. | {{free|A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License}} |
| 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|Proprietary (30 day trial)}} |
| DocFetcher
| Cross-platform | Open-source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene | {{free|Eclipse Public License}} |
| dtSearch Desktop
| Windows | | {{proprietary|Proprietary (30 day trial)}} |
| Everything
| Windows | Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes | {{nonfree|Freeware}} |
| Found
|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 |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | GNOME Storage
| Linux | Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | {{free|GPL}} |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Google Desktop
| Integrates with the main Google search engine page. As of September 14, 2011, Google has discontinued this product. | {{nonfree|Freeware}} |
| ISYS Search Software
| Windows | ISYS:Desktop search software. | {{proprietary|Proprietary (14-day trial)}} |
| KRunner
| | |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Locate32
| Windows | Graphical port of Unix's locate & updatedb | {{free|BSD License{{Cite web|url=https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml|title=Download Locate32 3.1.11.7100|website=softpedia|date=20 August 2012}}}} |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Lookeen
| Windows | Desktop search product with Outlook plugin and limited support for other formats via IFilters, uses Lucene search engine. | {{proprietary|Proprietary (14-day trial)}}{{cite web |url=https://www.lookeen.com/ |title=Lookeen 10 |publisher=Lookeen |access-date=2016-02-03}} |
| Nepomuk
| Linux | Open-source semantic desktop search tool for Linux. Has been replaced by Baloo in KDE Applications from release 4.13 onward. | License SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 |
| Recoll
| Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux | {{free|GPL According to [https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ Recoll]}} |
| Spotlight
| macOS | Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. | {{proprietary|Proprietary}} |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Strigi
| Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows | Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02{{#tag:ref|See {{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/files/ |author= |date= |accessdate=2024-01-18|title=Strigi's Release Files}}}}. | {{free|LGPL v2 According to [https://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/files/strigi/0.5.10/strigi-0.5.10.tar.bz2/download COPYING] inside version 0.5.10 tar.bz2 package.}} |
| Terrier Search Engine
| Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. | {{free|MPL v1.1}}{{cite web |title=Terrier License |url=https://github.com/terrier-org/terrier-core/blob/4.2/LICENSE.txt |website=GitHub|date=13 November 2021 }} |
| Tracker
| Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux |
| {{rh2|align=center}} | Tropes Zoom
| Windows | Semantic Search Engine (no longer available){{Cite web |url=http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm |title=Retrieved 15 August 2015. |access-date=16 August 2015 |archive-date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806185027/http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm |url-status=dead }} | {{nonfree|Freeware and commercial}} |
| Unity Dash
| Linux | Part of Ubuntu Desktop | {{free|GPL v3}},{{cite web |title=Unity on GitHub |url=https://github.com/ubports/unity8/blob/xenial/COPYING |website=GitHub|date=19 November 2021 }} LGPL v2.1{{cite web |title=Required License Files |url=https://github.com/ubports/unity8/blob/xenial/COPYING.LGPL |website=GitHub|date=19 November 2021 }} |
| 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 x64 systems. | {{proprietary|Proprietary}} |
| X1 Desktop Search
| Windows | Major desktop search product along with Copernic Desktop Search | {{proprietary|Proprietary (14-day trial)}}{{cite web | url=https://www.x1.com/products/x1-search/ | title=X1 Search 8 | publisher=X1 Technologies | access-date=12 July 2014}} |
| Wumpus
|Cross platform |Desktop search focused on information retrieval research |GPL |
= Child-safe search engines =
= Metasearch engines =
{{main|Metasearch engine}}
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| Name | Language |
|---|---|
| Dogpile | English |
| Excite | English |
| Info.com | English |
| Kayak.com | Multilingual |
| Mamma.com | |
| MetaCrawler | English |
| MetaGer | Multilingual |
| Mobissimo | Multilingual |
| Otalo.com | English |
| Publisher's clearinghouse Search and Win | |
| Searx | Multilingual |
| SearXNG
|Multilingual | |
| Skyscanner | Multilingual |
| Wego.com | Multilingual |
| [https://all-io.net/ All In One] | English |
= Natural language =
{{See also|Natural language search engine|Semantic search}}
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- Lexxe
- Perplexity.ai
- SearchGPT
= Open-source search engines =
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- 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
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== Web search engine ==
== Enterprise search ==
{{See also|Enterprise search}}
= P2P search engines =
= Privacy search engines =
{{See also|Search engine privacy}}
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= Social and environmental focus =
= Semantic browsing engines =
= Social search engines =
{{See also|Social search|Relevance feedback|Human search engine}}
= Usenet =
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
= Visual search engines =
{{main|Visual search engine}}
By popularity
{{Main|List of search engines by popularity}}
== Defunct or acquired search engines ==
| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
| Name | Backend ownership | Demise |
|---|---|---|
| iWon | Ask.com | Shut down after AT&T merger{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} |
| 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 | Taken over by Google after Google sued for name similarity | |
| MySpace Search | Function taken over by Google in 2006 | |
| Mystery Seeker | Novelty "search"; went offline in 2017 | |
| Netscape | Now redirects to AOL | |
| Ripple | as of 2017 at the latest | |
| Ecocho | Google, then Yahoo! | |
| Forestle | Google, then Yahoo! | Redirected to Ecosia in 2011 |
| Yippy
|Redirected to DuckDuckGo in 2021 | ||
| Grams
|Grams (anonymous owner) |Closed in 2017 |
- 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){{cite web |url=http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html |title=Data, Data, Everywhere Data. Now a Better Way to Understand It |date=27 March 2015 }}
- 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
- 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{{Cite web|url=https://news.mrw.it/dominio-volunia-it-vendita_15916.html|title=Il dominio Volunia.it è in vendita|website=MRW.it News|date=11 April 2014 }}
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
See also
References
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