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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.
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General
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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
Education
General:
Academic materials only:
Enterprise
- 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
- 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
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By data type
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Datasets
Maps
Multimedia
- 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
Price
- Bing Shopping
- Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search and Froogle[4])
- Kelkoo
- MySimon
- PriceGrabber
- PriceRunner
- Pronto.com
- Shopping.com
- Shopzilla
- TickX
Source code
BitTorrent
These search engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
- BTDigg
- Isohunt - discontinued
- Mininova - discontinued
- The Pirate Bay
- TorrentSpy - discontinued
- Torrentz - discontinued
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By model
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Search appliances
- 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.
Child-safe search engines
Metasearch engines
Natural language
- Ask.com
- Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
- Lexxe
- Perplexity.ai
- SearchGPT
Open-source search engines
Web search engine
Enterprise search
P2P search engines
Privacy search engines
Social and environmental focus
Semantic browsing engines
Social search engines
Usenet
- Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
Visual search engines
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By popularity
Defunct or acquired search engines
- 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)[18]
- 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[19]
- Wikia Search (defunct)
- WiseNut
- World Wide Web Worm
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