List of search engines
Wikimedia list article
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 web search
Open Source
Geographically localized
Business
Business.com
Daily Stocks
GlobalSpec
Thomasnet (United States)
Justdial (India)
Computers
Shodan (website)
Content
Openverse, search engine for open content.
Dark web
Ahmia
Education
Enterprise
Apache Solr
Oracle 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 recipes (now defunct)
Yummly: semantic recipe search (now defunct)
Genealogy
Mocavo.com: family history search engine
Job
Legal
Medical
Mobile/handheld
Taganode Local Search Engine (now defunct)
Taptu: taptu mobile/social search (now defunct)
News
People
Real estate/property
Television
TV Genius
Video
Sepia Search
Video games
Wazap
By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Datasets
Google Dataset Search
Maps
Multimedia
Price
Source code
Google Code Search
Koders
Krugle
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
BTDigg
Isohunt - discontinued
Mininova - discontinued
The Pirate Bay
TorrentSpy - discontinued
Torrentz - discontinued
Blog
Amatomu
Bloglines
IceRocket
Marginalia
Mojeek (substack only)
Munax
Regator
Technorati
By model
Search appliances
Fabasoft
Searchdaimon
Thunderstone
Desktop search engines
Desktop search engines listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Child-safe search engines
Kiddle
KidRex
QwantJunior
Swisscows
Metasearch engines
Natural language
Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
Lexxe
Perplexity.ai
SearchGPT
Open-source search engines
Web search engine
Gigablast
Grub
Enterprise search
P2P search engines
Privacy search engines
Social and environmental focus
Ecosia
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
ChaCha Search
Delver
Eurekster
Facebook Search
Mahalo.com
Rollyo
Sproose
Trexy
Usenet
Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Visual search engines
FindFace
Grokker
Macroglossa
TinEye
Viewzi
By popularity
Defunct or acquired search engines
AlltheWeb (acquired by Yahoo!)
AltaVista (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, shut down in 2013)
Ask.com (originally Ask Jeeves), shut down by IAC in 2026.
Bixee.com (India) (acquired by Ibibo)
Blekko (acquired by IBM in 2015 for its use for Watson-based products)
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
Neeva (acquired by Snowflake)
Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo!
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