By content/topic

General

 Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves)

 Baidu (Chinese)
 Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)
 Cuil
 Duck Duck Go
 Google
 Sogou (Chinese)
 Sohu (Chinese)
 Yahoo! Search
 Yandex (Russian)

Geographical limited scope

 Accoona, China/US
 Alleba, Philippines
 Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
 Araby, Middle East
 Baidu, China
 Daum, Korea
 Guruji.com, India
 Goo, Japan
 Leit.is, Iceland
 Miner.hu, Hungary
 Najdi.si, Slovenia
 Naver, Korea
 Onkosh, Middle East
 Rambler, Russia
 Rediff, India
 SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
 Search.ch, Switzerland
 Sesam, Norway, Sweden
 Seznam, Czech Republic
 Walla!, Israel
 Yandex, Russia
 ZipLocal, Canada/US

Accountancy

 IFACnet

Business

 Business.com
 GlobalSpec
 Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
 Thomasnet (United States)

Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search

 AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution

 Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
 Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
 dtSearch: dtSearch Engine(SDK), dtSearch Web
 Endeca: Information Access Platform
 Exalead: exalead one:enterprise
 Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito
 Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera)
 Funnelback: Funnelback Search
 ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
 Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services
 Northern Light
 Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink Search
 Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g
 SAP: TREX
 TeraText: TeraText Suite
 Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine
 X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search
 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)
 CareerBuilder.com (USA)
 Craigslist (by city)
 Dice.com (Technology Professionals)
 Eluta.ca (Canada)
 Hotjobs.com (USA)
 Incruit (Korea)
 Indeed.com (USA)
 LinkUp.com (USA)
 Monster.com (USA),(India)
 Recruit.net (International)
 SimplyHired.com (USA)
 Naukri.com (India)

Legal

 WestLaw
 Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
 Quicklaw
 Manupatra

Medical

 Bioinformatic Harvester
 Entrez (includes Pubmed)
 EB-eye EBI's Search Engine EMBL-EBI's Search engine
 GenieKnows
 GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
 Healia
 Searchmedica
 WebMD
 PubGene
 Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
 VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)

News

 Google News
 Daylife
 MagPortal
 Newslookup
 Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
 Topix.net
 Yahoo! News

People

 PeekYou
 Ex.plode.us
 InfoSpace
 Spock
 Spokeo
 Wink
 Zabasearch.com
 ZoomInfo

Real property

 Fizber.com
 Home.co.uk
 HotPads.com
 Rightmove
 Zillow.com

Video Games

 GenieKnows
 Wazap (Japan)

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

Forum

 Omgili

Blog

 Amatomu
 Bloglines
 BlogScope
 IceRocket
 Sphere
 Technorati

Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search

 Bing Videos
 blinkx
 FindSounds
 Google Video
 Munax's PlayAudioVideo
 Picsearch
 Pixsta
 Podscope
 Songza
 SeeqPod
 Veveo
 TinEye
 Yahoo! Video
 YouTube

Source code

 Google Code Search

 JExamples
 Koders
 Krugle

BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.

 Btjunkie
 Demonoid
 FlixFlux
 Isohunt
 Mininova
 The Pirate Bay
 TorrentSpy

Email

 TEK

Maps

 Bing Maps
 Géoportail
 Google Maps
 MapQuest
 Yahoo! Maps

Price

 Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)

 Kelkoo
 MSN Shopping
 MySimon
 PriceGrabber
 PriceRunner
 PriceSCAN
 Shopping.com
 ShopWiki
 Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
 TheFind.com

Question and answer

Human answers

 Answers.com
 eHow
 Uclue
 Yahoo! Answers
 Stack Overflow
 DeeperWeb

Automatic answers
See also: Question answering

 AskMeNow
 BrainBoost
 True Knowledge
 Wolfram Alpha

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

 Ask.com
 Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
 BrainBoost
 hakia
 Lexxe
 Powerset

By model
Open source search engines

 DataparkSearch
 Egothor
 Gonzui
 Grub
 Ht://dig
 Isearch
 Lucene
 Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
 mnoGoSearch
 Namazu
 Nutch
 OpenFTS
 Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy technology)
 Sphinx
 SWISH-E
 Terrier Search Engine
 Wikia Search
 Xapian
 YaCy
 Zettair

Semantic browsing engines

 Evri
 Hakia

Social search engines

See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine
 ChaCha Search
 Delver
 EarthFrisk.org
 Eurekster
 Mahalo.com
 OneRiot
 Rollyo
 Sproose
 Trexy
 Wikia search
 Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback

Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine

 Brainboost
 ChunkIt!
 Clusty
 Dogpile
 Excite
 Harvester42
 HotBot
 Info.com
 Ixquick
 Kayak
 LeapFish
 Mamma
 Metacrawler
 MetaLib
 Mobissimo
 Myriad Search
 SideStep
 Turbo10
 WebCrawler
 DeeperWeb

Visual search engines

 ChunkIt!
 Grokker
 Kartoo
 Pixsta
 PubGene
 Viewzi

Search Appliances

 Google: Google Search Appliance

Desktop search engines

See also: Desktop search

Name Platform Remarks License

Ask.com Windows - Freeware

Proprietary,
Autonomy Windows IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search.
commercial

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

Copernic
Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW Free for home
Desktop Windows
benchmark study.[1] use
Search

Docco cross-platform (Java) Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and BSD
 it requires aJava Runtime Environment. License [2]

Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, Eclipse Public
Docfetcher Cross-platform
based on Apache Lucene License

dtSearch Proprietary
Windows
Desktop (30 day trial)

Easyfind Mac OS Freeware

Indexes and searches files' content in computers, networks Proprietary

Filehawk Windows
and removabledata storage devices (30 day trial)

Gaviri Freeware or
Windows Indexes desktop, network drives and portable devices.
PocketSearch commercial

Google Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9
Linux, Mac OS,Windows Freeware
Desktop Release now supports x64 systems.

GNOME
Linux Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL
Storage

imgSeek Linux, Mac OS,Windows Desktop content-based image search GPL v2 [3]

InSight
Desktop Windows Metadata-based search utility Freeware
Search

ISYS Search Proprietary

Windows ISYS:desktop search software.
Software (14 day trial)

Likasoft
Proprietary
Archivarius Windows -
(30 day trial)
3000

Meta Tracker Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [4]
Spotlight Mac OS Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary

Linux, Unix, Solaris,Mac

Strigi Cross-platform open source desktop search engine LGPL v2 [5]
OS X andWindows

Terrier
Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger),
Search Linux, Mac OS,Unix MPL
Unix/Linux.
Engine

Freeware and
Tropes Zoom Windows Semantic Search Engine.
commercial

Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available as Windows

Windows Proprietary,
Windows Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003. Does not
Search freeware
support indexing UNC paths on x64 systems.

X1
Formerly Yahoo Desktop Search, then X1 Desktop Search, Proprietary
Professional Windows
then X1 Enterprise Client (30 day trial)
Client

Usenet

 Google Groups (formerly Deja News)

Based on
Google

 AOL Search
 CompuServe Search
 MySpace Search
 Netscape
 Ripple

Yahoo!
 AltaVista
 AlltheWeb
 Ecocho
 Forestle (an ecologically motivated site supporting sustainable rain forests)
 GoodSearch
 Rectifi

Bing

 A9.com
 Alexa Internet
 Tafiti
 Ms. Dewey

Ask.com

 Hakia (semantic search)

 iWon
 Lycos

Acquired or defunct search engines

 BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server)

 Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000)
 Google Answers
 Infoseek
 Inktomi
 Lotus Magellan
 Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo! Search Marketing)
 PubSub
 Singingfish
 Teoma
 Wikia Search
 WiseNut
 World Wide Web Worm