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This is a list of search engines. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. ... A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. ...

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General search engines

Alexa Internet, Inc. ... Ask. ... Exalead [egzæli:d] is a French search engine involved in the Quaero project, introducing new search techniques. ... Gigablast Screenshot Gigablast is a search engine which aims to be more efficient and scale better than other search engines. ... Google is owned by Google, Inc. ... It has been suggested that MSN Search be merged into this article or section. ... MSN Searchs homepage viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. ... Mozdex is supposed to be a search engine that is built on open source technologies like Nutch. ... This article is about the search engine. ...

Open source search engines

DataparkSearch Engine is an open source search engine written in C. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a web-site, group of web-sites, intranet or local system. ... Egothor is an open source search engine implementation written entirely in Java to ensure cross platform compatibility. ... Gonzui is a source code search engine software. ... Grub is the name for a distributed search crawler platform. ... ht://Dig is a free software system for indexing and searching a finite set of sites or an intranet and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Isearch is open source text retrieval software developed in 1994 at the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR), funded by the National Science Foundation. ... Lucene is a free/open source information retrieval library, originally implemented in Java by Doug Cutting. ... Lemur is a toolkit designed to facilitate research in language modeling and information retrieval, where information retrieval is broadly interpreted to include such technologies as ad hoc and distributed retrieval, with structured queries, cross-language information retrieval, summarization, filtering, and categorization. ... mnoGoSearch is an open source search engine written in C. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system. ... Namazu is a free full-text search engine software under GPL licence, originally developed by Satoru Takabayashi. ... Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine. ... OpenFTS is an open source database search engine based on PostgreSQL. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. ... Sciencenet is a experimental search engine at KIT (Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology - Liebel-Lab) for scientific knowledge. ... YaCy (read ya see) is an open-source distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and released under the GPL. Its core is a computer program written in Java distributed on several hundred of computers, as of September 2006, so-called YaCy-peers. ... Wikia (no official pronunciation[2]; originally Wikicities) is a selective wiki hosting service (or wiki farm) operated by Wikia, Inc. ... Sphinx is a free software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. ... Swish-e stands for Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced. ... Terrier is a software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. ... Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). ... YaCy (read ya see) is an open-source distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and released under the GPL. Its core is a computer program written in Java distributed on several hundred of computers, as of September 2006, so-called YaCy-peers. ... Zettair is a compact and fast text search engine that allows to index and search HTML (or TREC) collections. ...

Metasearch engines

See also: Metasearch engine

Brainboost is an metasearch engine designed to provide specific answers to questions asked in natural language. ... Clusty is a metasearch engine developed by Vivísimo which offers clusters of results. ... Dogpiles main logo // Dogpile is a metasearch engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search), Ask. ... Excite Excite is an Internet portal with an included search engine. ... Hotbot Hotbot was one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine. ... The Info. ... Ixquick is a meta search engine that gathers its results from Teoma, Entireweb , Gigablast, Go, LookSmart, Netscape, ixdmoz, goto, Wisenut and Yahoo! Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine covers. ... Krozilo (www. ... Mamma. ... MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search (formerly MSN Search), Ask. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Myriad Search is a [metasearch engine] developed by Aaron Wall which offers ad free search results. ... SideStep is a privately held internet travel company based in Santa Clara, California. ... Turbo10. ... See WebCrawler for the specific search engine of that name. ... A meta-search engine is a search engine that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and returns the results from each one. ...

Regional search engines

Accoona is a New Jersey based-internet company. ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... Alleba is a Philippine search engine. ... Ansearch is an Australia based-internet company. ... United States may refer to: Places: United States of America SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built. ... For the Ilkhanate ruler, see Baydu. ... Daum. ... This article is about the Korean civilization. ... Guruji. ... Maktoob Inc. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Miner. ... Najdi. ... For other uses, see Naver (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Korean civilization. ... Rambler (Russian: ) is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest Russian web portals. ... Rediff. ... SAPO (Portuguese for male frog), Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses, is a brand and subsidiary company of Portugal Telecom Group. ... search. ... Walla! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Yandex logo. ...

People search engines

ex. ... Current Chairman & CEO Jim Voelker InfoSpace is a mobile entertainment provider, a private label search engine and an online directory. ... Spock is a website search engine that indexes people. ... Wink is a community-based social search engine. ... YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC is a joint venture between AT&T and BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corp. ... Zabasearch. ... ZoomInfo is a vertical search engine focused on people, companies, and the relationships between them. ...

Email-based search engines

Nicado is an old email and old telephone number based search engine developed by Nicado Limited. ... TEK search engine is an email-based search engine developed by the TEK project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

Visual search engines

Groxis is a tech company based in San Francisco, CA that develops and markets the web-based federated content access and visual search engine called Grokker. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Quintura is a visual search engine, powered by Yahoo. ...

Answer-based search engines

Answers. ... AskMeNow is an Irvine, California based mobile search company that launched in the United States in late 2005. ... AskWiki, developed in partnership between AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation, is a preliminary integration of a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions using information from Wikipedia articles. ... Brainboost is an metasearch engine designed to provide specific answers to questions asked in natural language. ... eHow is a website for How To Guides. ... Lexxe is an internet search engine that uses Natural language processing for queries. ... Lycos iQ is a community driven human search site by Lycos Europe GmbH. Users on iQ can post questions and answers in a similar manner to sites such as Yahoo Answers, Google Answers and Wondir. ... Windows Live QnA is an upcoming question and answer service, part of Microsofts Windows Live range of services. ... Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to ask and answer questions posed by other users. ...

Google-based search engines

For other uses, see AOL (disambiguation). ... CompuServe, (in full, CompuServe Information Services, or CIS), was the first major commercial online service in the United States. ... Evisum is an educational search engine[1][2][3] founded in 1999 by Stanley L. Klos. ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ... For other uses, see Mahalo. ... For the web browser produced by this corporation, see Netscape (web browser). ... Ripple logo Helping save the world, one click at a time // Ripple offically launched on the 4th of May, 2007. ...

Yahoo!-based search engines

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Screenshot of AlltheWeb AlltheWeb is a major search engine which debuted in mid-1999. ... Screenshot of Earthoid Earthoid is an online search engine which began its roots back in 1999 as a (WAP) Wireless Application Protocol search service for mobile devices. ... GoodSearch home page GoodSearch is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates 50% of its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities designated by its users. ... Rectifi is an online search engine which allows you to search the internet. ...

Windows-Live-based search engines

Screenshot of the home page A9. ... Tafiti displaying the news results for a search of the term Tafiti Tafiti is an animated search engine launched by Microsoft Corp. ... Ms. ...

Ask.com-based search engines

Iwon can refer to: Riwon, an alternative spelling of the North Korea province iWon. ... Lycos is an Internet search engine and web portal. ...

Job search engines

See also: Job search engine and Category:Job search engines

Naukri. ... Bixee. ... TolMol. ... Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums on various topics. ... Eluta. ... CareerBuilder. ... hotjobs. ... Indeed. ... Monster. ... Recruit. ... SimplyHired. ... A job search engine is a website that facilitates job hunting. ...

Blog search engines

Amatomu is a blog search engine and article aggregator, focusing on blogs published in South Africa. ... Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for browsing weblogs and other news feeds. ... BlogScope is a search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology. ... IceRocket is an Internet search engine specialized in searching blogs. ... The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. ...

News search engines

Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google Inc. ... MagPortal. ... Newslookup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. ... Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news. ...

Multimedia search engines

blinkx. ... FindSounds is a website run by the Comparisonics Corporation. ... Picsearch is a Swedish company that develops and provides visual search services, both for their own site picsearch. ... Podscope is a search engine that will crawl the web to look for podcasts. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Code search engines

Google Code Search is a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006 allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet. ... JExamples provides the ability to search for Java examples extracted from open source projects. ... Koders is a search engine for source code. ... Krugle is a search engine that should allow computer programmers and other developers to search Open Source repositories in order to locate open source code, and quickly share the code with other programmers on the internet. ...

Human Search Engines

A human search engine is a search engine that utilizes human participation to filter the search results and assist users in clarifying their search request. ... ChaCha is a social search engine that pays human guides to answer questions for users. ... For other uses, see Mahalo. ...

BitTorrent search engines

These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol. This article is about the protocol. ...

BTJunkie is an advanced BitTorrent search engine. ... Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... isoHunt is a major BitTorrent index with over 806,961 torrents in its database and over 12. ... Mininova is one of the biggest torrent listing sites. ... The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is an Internet site that bills itself as the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker and also serves as an index for . ... TorrentSpy is a popular BitTorrent indexing Web Site. ...

Accountancy search engines

IFACnet is the KnowledgeNet for Professional Accountants. ...

Medical search engines

The Bioinformatic-Harvester is a bioinformatic meta search engine for genes and protein associated information. ... The Entrez logo The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System allows access to databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. ... Medline is a comprehensive literature database of life sciences and biomedical information. ... // The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). ... GoPubMed is a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... KMLE Medical Dictionary is a web search engine, owned privately by a radiology doctor. ... MeshPubMed is together with GoPubMed a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. ... SearchMedica is a medical search engine company built for and with medical professionals, with localized versions for the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Spain. ... WebMD is available to both consumers and physicians, and contains several different health sites owned and run by WebMD, including WebMD Health, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, eMedicine Health, RxList and theheart. ...

Property search engines

An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... Rightmove plc trading as Rightmove. ... Zillow. ...

Business search engines

The 1906 Thomas Register of American Manufacturers The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, known as the big green books and Thomas Registry, is a multi-volume directory of industrial product information covering 650,000 distributors, manufacturers and service companies within 67,000-plus industrial categories. ... Business. ... Nexis redirects here. ...

Comparison shopping search engines

Google Product Search (formerly known as Froogle) is a price comparison service launched by Google Inc. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... MSN Shopping is a member site of the MSN portal. ... MySimon is a comparison shopping website owned by Cnet since 2000. ... NexTag logo Nextag is a comparison shopping website. ... The website PriceRunner is a price comparison service launched in Sweden in 1999, and since bought by ValueClick. ... Shopping. ... ShopWiki is a next-generation shopping search engine (or price engine) that officially launched on April 19, 2006. ... Shopzilla: Founded in 1996, Shopzilla is a leading comparison shopping service. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... TheFind. ... TolMol. ...

Geographic search engines

Le Géoportail is a Web portal allowing access to public georeferenced data, on the whole French territory, in a cartographic interface. ... Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps... Screenshot from MapQuest MapQuest is a map publisher and free online Web Map Service, owned by AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services , a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Yahoo! Maps web site Yahoo! Maps is a free online mapping portal provided by the Yahoo! network, based out of Sunnyvale, California. ...

Social search engines

  • ChaCha Search
  • Eurekster
  • Google Co-op is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorise queries, and create customized search engines
  • Rollyo
  • Wink provides web search by analyzing user contributions such as bookmarks and feedback
  • Trexy
See also: Social search and Relevance feedback

ChaCha is a social search engine that pays human guides to answer questions for users. ... Eurekster is a company based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis (search plus wiki[1]). Launching to the public on January 21, 2004[2], Eurekster hosts around 50,000... Google Co-op is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorise queries, and create customized search engines, based on Google Web Search. ... Rollyo Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their search results. ... Wink is a community-based social search engine. ... Trexy is an Internet metasearch engine established in early 2006. ... A social search engine is a type of search engine that determines the relevance of search results by considering the interactions or contributions of users. ... Relevance feedback is a feature of some information retrieval systems. ...

Search engines for kids

Categories: Yahoo! | Stub ... Quintura Kids is a kids visual find engine based on Yahoo! Kids child-safe results. ...

Desktop search engines

See also: Desktop search

Autonomy is a British corporation selling software under the same name. ... Old UI for Beagle, code named Best Beagle is a search tool for Linux, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows. ... Copernic Desktop Search is a desktop search utililty for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. ... This article is in need of improvement. ... Apache Software Foundation Logo The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)(3) in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. ... Lucene is a free/open source information retrieval library, originally implemented in Java by Doug Cutting. ... Java Logo The Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, or J2RE is a software bundle from Sun Microsystems that allows a computer system to run a Java application. ... dtSearch Corp is a software company which specializes in text retrieval software. ... // FileHawk is an indexing and searching program, for Windows, designed to organize computer files. ... Many different consumer electronic devices can store data. ... // Gaviri PocketSearch is an indexing, searching and file management software, designed to help users find files across all their devices. ... Google Desktops logo Google Desktop is a desktop search software for Mac OS X, Linux and Microsoft Windows. ... imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. ... Established in 1988 in Sydney, Australia, ISYS Search Software (formerly Odyssey Development) is a developer of enterprise search software. ... Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on the desktop computer, on local network and removable drives (CD, DVD). ... Tracker is a search system for Linux and other Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows. ... Spotlight is an as-you-type, system-wide desktop search feature found in Mac OS X v10. ... Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X version 10. ... Terrier is a software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. ... Tracker is a search system for Linux and other Unix-like systems written in C. It enables the user to search documents in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, or Google Desktop under Microsoft Windows. ... Tropes Zoom is a desktop search engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge. ... Windows Desktop Search (or WDS) is an indexed search platform released by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... The MSN Search Toolbar is a toolbar for Internet Explorer. ... Windows Desktop Search (or WDS) is an indexed search platform released by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... Windows redirects here. ... In computing, the task bar is a term for an application desktop bar which is most often used for the Windows 95 and later operating systems. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE), commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ... X1 Enterprise Client interface The X1 Professional Client (formerly X1 Enterprise Client and X1 Desktop Search) is a secure desktop search product. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Legal

The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... Nexis redirects here. ... Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. ...

Usenet

Google Groups is a free groups and mailing list service from Google. ... The Deja News logo as it appeared in 1997. ...

Defunct search engines

Google Answers was a knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. ... A known logo Infoseek was a very popular search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch, et. ... Inktomi was a Californian company that provided software for Internet Service Providers, which was founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and graduate student Paul Gauthier. ... Northern Light Group, LLC is a company specializing in knowledge management for market research and custom enterprise search applications. ... Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture Services, Inc. ... PubSub [1] PubSub Concepts, Inc. ... Singingfish was an audio/video search engine that powered audio video search for Windows Media Player, RealOne / RealPlayer, WindowsMedia. ... Teoma. ... The World-Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was one of the first search engines for the World-Wide Web, being developed in September 1994 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado. ... Screen shot of WiseNut WiseNut is a crawler-based search engine now owned by Looksmart. ...

See also

A web directory is a listing of websites organized in a hierarchy or interconnected list of categories. ... This page contains a list of search engines and archives of scientific and academic journal articles. ... A typical search results page Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural (organic or algorithmic) search results. ... A search aggregator is a type of metasearch engine which gathers results from multiple search engines simultaneously through RSS search results. ...

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