A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. This page shows a curated list overview of search engines.

Search Engines

  1. 1 Web search engine 10
  2. 2 Metasearch engine 2
  3. 3 Information retrieval 5
  4. 4 Search engine technology 3
  5. 5 List of search engines 15
  6. 6 The best search engines 30

Most Popular

  1. 1 Google 5
  2. 2 Yahoo! 3
  3. 3 Wolfram Alpha 17
  4. 4 Bing 6
  5. 5 Yandex.ru 10
  6. 6 Baidu 11
  7. 7 Qwant 15
  8. 8 http://www.excite.com 12

Geographically limited

  1. 1 Baidu (CN) 2
  2. 2 Sogou.com (CN) 1
  3. 3 Soso.com (CN) 1
  4. 4 Youdao.com (CN) 0
  5. 5 Yandex (RU) 0
  6. 6 Rambler.ru (RU) 1
  7. 7 Getit.in (IN) 4
  8. 8 Rediff.com (IN) 3

Books

  1. 1 Advanced Models for Information Retrieval ... 4
  2. 2 Web Search Engine Research 6
  3. 3 The Search 1

Categorized / Directory

  1. 1 ZEEF.com 2
  2. 2 Dmoz.org 8
  3. 3 Craigslist.org 1
  4. 4 Directories 16

Curated

  1. 1 ZEEF.com 2
  2. 2 Trap.it 26
  3. 3 BISA88 13
  4. 4 Content Curation 13
  5. 5 Blekko - joined IBM Watson 9
  6. 6 What is Watson? 4

History

  1. 1 Search Engine Relationship Chart® 3
  2. 2 Challenges in Running a Commercial Web Search Engine 0
  3. 3 All About World's Search Engines 6

Privacy Protecting

  1. 1 Encrypted Google 22
  2. 2 DuckDuckGo 10
  3. 3 Gigablast 23
  4. 4 Ixquick 12
  5. 5 Startpage Web Search 9

Curated Search Engines

  1. 1 ZResearch 178
  2. 2 Enginuity 111
  3. 3 Qwant 108
  4. 4 Presearch 0
  5. 5 more tools... 99

Metasearch

  1. 1 Webcrawler 11
  2. 2 HotBot 3
  3. 3 My Excite 2
  4. 4 Yippy 6
  5. 5 Dogpile 7
  6. 6 Info 7
  7. 7 Mamma 8
  8. 8 Zoo 9

Knowledge Base

  1. 1 Quora 2
  2. 2 Answers 3
  3. 3 Evi 9
  4. 4 Yummly 4
  5. 5 Askmehelpdesk 3
  6. 6 eHow 2
  7. 7 Yahoo Answers 3
  8. 8 Stack Overflow 1

Influentials

  1. 1 Sergey Brin 0
  2. 2 Larry Page 0
  3. 3 Dirk Lewandowski 0
  4. 4 John Battelle's Search Blog About John 0

Different appoach

  1. 1 Etsimo 7
  2. 2 Consumer and Market Intelligence platform 3
  3. 3 SearchTeam 5

Local Search

  1. 1 Ziplocal.com (US) 3
  2. 2 Craigslist.org 4

Travel Serch

  1. 1 Kayak 0
  2. 2 Mobissimo 3
  3. 3 Otalo 2

P2P search

  1. 1 Faroo 10
  2. 2 Seeks 8
  3. 3 YaCy 2

Geneology / People

  1. 1 Mocavo 9
  2. 2 PeekYou 5
  3. 3 Spock 5
  4. 4 Spokeo 2
  5. 5 Wink 3
  6. 6 Zabasearch 2
  7. 7 ZoomInfo 4

Vertical

  1. 1 Globalspec 7
  2. 2 Shodanhq 6
  3. 3 Isearch-project.eu 9

Jobs

  1. 1 Adzuna.co.uk (UK) 0
  2. 2 Bixee.com (IN) 0
  3. 3 Careerbuilder.com (US) 1
  4. 4 Dice.com (US) 1
  5. 5 Hotjobs.com (US) 0
  6. 6 Jobstreet.com (Asia) 0
  7. 7 Incruit.com (Korea) 0
  8. 8 Glassdoor.com 0

News

  1. 1 Taptu 4
  2. 2 Yahoo News 1
  3. 3 Bing News 0
  4. 4 Google News 0
  5. 5 Magportal 1
  6. 6 Newslookup 2
  7. 7 Topix.net 1
  8. 8 Trapit 3

E-Commerce

  1. 1 Sophia 9
  2. 2 Bing Shopping 2
  3. 3 Google Shopping 0
  4. 4 Kelkoo 0
  5. 5 mySimon 2
  6. 6 Pricegrabber 2
  7. 7 Pricerunner 2
  8. 8 Pricescan 2

Semantic

  1. 1 Exalead 18
  2. 2 HotBot 8

Scientific

  1. 1 Google Scholar 4
  2. 2 Symbolab 5
  3. 3 Swoogle.umbc.edu 4
  4. 4 Idmarch.org 4
  5. 5 Ifacnet 4

Peer-to-Peer

  1. 1 Faroo.com 4
  2. 2 YaCy 0

Open Source

  1. 1 Gigablast 12
  2. 2 Isearch-project.eu 6
  3. 3 Dataparksearch.org 5
  4. 4 Yioop Open Source Search Engine Software 3

Non Profit

  1. 1 Worldwidehelpers.org 5

Advertising

  1. 1 Business 1
  2. 2 Craigslist.org 1

BitTorrent

  1. 1 Btdigg 1
  2. 2 isoHunt 1
  3. 3 Mininova.org is not more 0
  4. 4 The Pirate Bay 5
  5. 5 http://torrentspy.com/ 3
  6. 6 Torrentz.eu 1
  7. 7 Torrentus 3

Images

  1. 1 Pictures 19
  2. 2 Google Afbeeldingen 1
  3. 3 Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media 3

Different verticals

  1. 1 LexisNexis - Legal & Professional 2
  2. 2 Lexisnexis - Risk Solutions 2
  3. 3 Noodle - Make Better Education Decisions 0
  4. 4 BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) 2
  5. 5 Google Scholar 0
  6. 6 ThomasNet® - Supplier discovery platform 1
  7. 7 Chegg - Textbook Rental! 1

Child Friendly

  1. 1 Wizenoze - Search for kids 6

Crowdsourced

  1. 1 Demo.apexkb.com 9
  2. 2 Trap.it 5
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