Google it? Bing it? Endeca it? A list of search engines

General

• Ask.com (known as Ask Jeeves in the UK)
• Baidu (Chinese, Japanese)
• Bing (formerly MSN Search and Live Search)
• Blekko
• Duck Duck Go
• Google
• Kosmix
• Sogou (Chinese)
• Yodao (Chinese)
• Yahoo
• Yandex (Russian)
• Yebol

Geographically limited scope

• Accoona, China/United States
• Alleba, Philippines
• Ansearch, Australia/United States/United Kingdom/New Zealand
• Biglobe, Japan
• Daum, Korea
• Goo, Japan
• Guruji.com, India
• Leit.is, Iceland
• Maktoob, Arab World
• Onkosh, Arab World
• Miner.hu, Hungary
• Najdi.si, Slovenia
• Naver, Korea
• Rambler, Russia
• Rediff, India
• SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
• Search.ch, Switzerland
• Sesam, Norway, Sweden
• Seznam, Czech Republic
• Walla!, Israel
• Yandex, Russia
• Yehey!, Philippines
• ZipLocal, Canada/United States

Accountancy

• IFACnet

Business

• Business.com
• GlobalSpec
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Thomasnet (United States)
• GenieKnows (United States and Canada)

Enterprise

• 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
• IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition
• Inbenta: Inbenta Semantic Search Engine
• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk
• Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise bookmarking
• 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

Food/Recipes

• Yummly: semantic recipe search

Mobile/Handheld

• Taganode Local Search Engine
• Taptu: taptu mobile/social search

Job

• Bixee.com (India)
• CareerBuilder.com (USA)
• Craigslist (by city)
• Dice.com (USA)
• Eluta.ca (Canada)
• Hotjobs.com (USA)
• Incruit (Korea)
• Indeed.com (USA)
• LinkUp.com (USA)
• Monster.com (USA), (India)
• Naukri.com (India)
• Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, International)

Legal

• WestLaw
• Lexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Quicklaw
• Manupatra

Medical

• Bing Health
• Bioinformatic Harvester
• EB-eye EMBL-EBI's Search engine
• Entrez (includes Pubmed)
• GenieKnows
• GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
• Healia
• Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
• PubGene
• Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical literature)
• Searchmedica
• VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
• WebMD

News

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

People

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

Real estate / property

• Fizber.com
• Home.co.uk
• HotPads.com
• Redfin
• Rightmove
• Zillow.com

Television

• TV Genius

Video Games

• Wazap (Japan)

By information type

Forum

• Omgili

Blog

• Amatomu
• Bloglines
• BlogScope
• IceRocket
• Technorati

Multimedia

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

Source code

• Google Code Search
• JExamples
• Koders
• Krugle

BitTorrent

• Btjunkie
• FlixFlux
• Isohunt
• Mininova
• The Pirate Bay
• TorrentSpy
• Torrentz

Email

• TEK

Maps

• Wiki Mapia
• Bing Maps
• Géoportail
• Google Maps
• MapQuest
• Yahoo! Maps

Price

• Bing Shopping
• Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
• Kelkoo
• MySimon
• PriceGrabber
• PriceRunner
• PriceSCAN
• Shopping.com
• ShopWiki
• Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
• TheFind.com
• Wishabi

Question and answer

Human answers

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

Automatic answers

• AskMeNow
• BrainBoost
• True Knowledge
• Wolfram Alpha

Natural language

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

By model

Open source search engines

• DataparkSearch
• Egothor
• 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
• Yebol

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

• 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
• Pixsta
• PubGene
• Viewzi

Search appliances

• Google: Google Search Appliance