Type Search Engine Description

All- Google - The world's most popular search

Purpose engine.
Search
Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the
Engines
burgeoning search engine market. Better late
than never.

Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine

on the web (as defined by a September
2007 Nielsen Netratings report.

AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by

researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's
Western Research Laboratory. From 1996
powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo
technology powers AltaVista.

Cuil: Cuil was a search engine website

(pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of
ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM.
Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched
in July, 2008 and claimed to be world’s largest
search engine, indexing three times as many
pages as Google and ten times that of MS. Now
defunct.

Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of

the most recognized brands on the Internet.
One of the famous 90's dotcoms.

Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search

engine is now also an entire portal. Family-
friendly!

HotBot was one of the early Internet search

engines (since 1996) launched by Wired
Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and
MSN.

AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and

using its database, but presenting results
differently.

Galaxy: More of a directory than a search

engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first
searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet
division at the MCC Research Consortium at the
University of Texas, Austin

search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now

 official.

Live Search (formerly Windows Live

Searchand MSN Search) Microsoft's web search
engine, designed to compete with Google and
Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer
web browser.

Lycos: Initial focus was broadband

entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet
portal and the 13th largest online property
according to Media Metrix.

GigaBlast was developed by an ex-

programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports
nested boolean search logic using parenthesis
and infix notation. A unique search engine, it
indexes over 10 billion web pages.

Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known

more for providing website traffic information.
Search was provided by Google, then Live
Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own
search.

Accountin IFAC.com: For resources and information on

IFAC.com
g Ifrs and Accounting.

Bit Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search

Torrent engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google)
to search for torrent files from other torrent
sites and store them in its database. It has over
1,800,000 active torrents.

Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a

person known only as Deimos. The website
indexed torrents uploaded by its members.
Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting
Company by CRIA.

FlixFlux: From its website, "The ultimate

torrent site for films, combining bittorrent
search results with film information, making it
easy to find new film releases."

isoHunt, a comprehensive BitTorrent search

engine, P2P file search and community. Over
930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million
peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million
searches per month.
 Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org - a
search engine and directory of torrent files.
Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of
users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the
database, over 4 Billion downloads.

The Pirate Bay (aka "TPB"): Based in Sweden

where torrent trackers are not illegal. No
content is filtered or removed as long as it is
clearly labeled.

TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent

files and provides a forum to comment on them.
Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site
ShoutWire's feed into its front page.

Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a

searchable portal.

Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere,

sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct
focus on South Africa.

Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for

reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and
Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005.

Blogperfect Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search

BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the

blogosphere being developed as part of a
research project at the University of Toronto.
Itcurrently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with
Blog 275.6million posts.

IceRocket: An Internet search engine for

searching blogs.

Sphere connects your current articles to

contextually relevant content from yourarchives
as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles,
Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web.

Technorati catalogs over 112 million weblogs.

Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as
epitomized by its byline of "What's percolating
in blogs now". A supporter and contributor to
open source software.

Books FreeBookSearch.net - Comprehensive book

searching portal with more than 30 search
engines in its archive, the site searches
 hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the
net for hidden books.

Google Book Search The power of Google to

find books. Google's entry will not let you see
full text if the copyright is still active in your
jurisdiction.

Alibaba.com - Claims to be the world's largest

database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a
marketplace of export and import, offers search,
company directory, catalog, trade leads and
more.

Bankersalmanac.com provides intelligent

reference data solutions to the banking industry
for payments, due diligence, risk assessment
and financial research.

business.com: contains more than 400,000

listings within about 65,000 categories. Search
results are preceded by four types of paid links.

Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company,

maintains a database of over 23 million
companies. Some information is provided free,
other information is available to paid
Business subscribers. Good for company stock
information.

Kompass: 2.3M companies in 70 countries

referenced by 57.000 product & service
keywords 860.000 trade names
and 4.6Mexecutive names. A guide for
worldwide sourcing.

Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the

"world’s largest collection of public records,
unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and
business information". Searchable archive of
newspapers, public records & more.

ThomasNet: Powered by the Thomas Register

of American Manufacturers (The Big Green
Books published since 1898). Catalogs over
650,000 American companies in 67,000
categories.

Email
eMail-Search.org Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number
of tools for searching email addresses. Find
current, former email addresses, extract them
 from the web.

Nicado: Free to register, Search email

addresses. The Nicado search engine allows
registered users to search the Nicado database
using an email address or telephone number.

TEK search engine is an email-based search

engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. The search engine enables users
to search the Web using only email. It is
intended to be used by people with low internet
connectivity.

Enterpris AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution for

e mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a
consumer mobile search utilizing proprietary
technology & natural language based
interaction.

Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data

Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly
Verity), Ultraseek

Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation. Dieselpoint

provides advanced full-text search with data
navigation capability. It gives users highly
relevant results not possible with either
traditional search engines or SQL databases.

dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web.

dtSearch provides simple to use but very
powerful tools which create and maintain full
text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes
of text can be searched.

Endeca's search and information access

solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and
understand information. This is the Guided
Navigation experience.

Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead-

Internet search engine, image search engine,
video search engine ...
WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » · Advanced
search. 8 billion pages indexed to date.

Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer in

developing semantic technologies to
understand and manage unstructured
information. Expert System's semantic
 approach enables rapid classification of
information.

Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search

Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly
Convera)

Funnelback is an Internet and Enterprise

search engine company offering a suite of
search solutions, hosted solution for the web
and a fully customisable enterprise solution for
searching behind the firewall.

Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for

employees to find information inside your
organization as it is to find information on
google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance.

Microsoft's SharePoint Search

Services:Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an
enterprise search platform from Microsoft,
based on MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS
shares its architecture with Windows Search.

Northern Light Search: Search articles from

over 800 online news feeds and over 1,000
Northern Light
industry authority blogs.

Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise

Content Management (ECM) software solutions
supporting +/- 20 million seats across 13,000
deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages
worldwide.

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a

standalone product from Oracle, enables a
secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across
all enterprise information assets.

SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification

(TREX) finds information in both structured and
unstructured data. TREX provides SAP
applications with services for searching and
classifying large collections of documents.

TeraText Suite: Most data resides in semi-

structured, primarily textual documents, not in
structured, organizational repositories. Teratext
is designed for text-rich data repositories.

Vivisimo Clustering Engine developed by

scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm
 and deep linguistic knowledge to find
relationships between search terms and bring
them to light. (Web search:Clusty)

ZyIMAGE Information Access Platform for

government and corporates
doescapturing, archiving, searching, security,
and context-specific content-management.
Omgili (Oh My God, I Love It!): Find out
Forum what people are saying. Personal experiences,
solutions to problems, ideas and opinions.

Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all

over the web. Searches all of the most popular
cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any
game.

Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive

Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine
Games company concentrating on niche markets:
health search, video games search, and local
business directory search.

Wazap is a vertical search engine, video game

database and social networking site that
distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats,
downloads and reviews.

Human ChaCha Search is a search engine that pays

Search human "guides" to answer questions for users.
This is a technique known as social searching.

Eurekster is a New Zealand company, with an

office located in San Francisco, California, that
builds social search engines for use on
websites, the search engines are called swickis
(search+wicki).

Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human

search engine) - the project is in beta test. It
differentiates itself from algorithmic search
engines by tracking and building hand-crafted
results for searches.

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.
 Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you
create while searching and finding information
on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share
your "search trails". Easier searching of the
"deep web".

Wink: Wink People Search: Over 333,304,647

people on social networks and across the Web.
Find people using name search, location,
school, work, interests, and more.

Internatio Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial

nal intelligence. In addition to traditional searches,
it allows business profile searches, and its
signature "SuperTarget" feature. Partnered with
China Daily, a large Chinese portal.

Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly

organized directory of Filipino websites.

Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. AnsearchLtd is

involved in various online media activities,
including the Ansearch.com.au search engine
and the Soush online media network

Araby: Middle East - Arabic language search

engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which
owns the world's largest online Arab
community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only)

Baidu: China - The Google of China, Baiduis

doing what no other Internet company has been
able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its
home market.

Daum: Korea - Daum is a popular web portal in

South Korea which offers many Internet services
including search, a popular free web-based e-
mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and
news.

Guruji.com: India - an Indian Internet search

engine that is focused on providing better
search results to Indian consumers, by
leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in
the Indian context.

goo: Japan - an Internet search engine and web

portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes
primarily Japanese language websites. goo is
operated by the Japanese telecomm giant NTT.
 Miner.hu: Hungary - a vertical search engine
for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian
content on the internet. Miner.hu indexes about
129.000 blogs.

Najdi.si: Slovenia - a Slovenian search engine

and web portal created by Interseek. It's the
most visited website in Slovenia. It uses a
Najdi.si
technology created by Interseek written entirely
in Java

Naver: Korea - The undisputed number 1

search engine in Korea with over 16 million
visitors and 1 billion page views per day.

Onet: Poland - Polish language web portal and

search.

Onkosh: Middle East - Arabic language search.

Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web search

(Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory,
media, ecommerce and other services to the
Russian-speaking websurfer.

Rediff: India - India's leading internet portal for

news, mail, messenger, entertainment,
business, mobile, ecommerce, shopping,
auctions, search, sports and more.

SAPO: Portugal - Portuguese language search

based in Portugal and focused on Portugal.

Search.ch: Switzerland - a search engine and

web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as
a regional search engine, later many other
services were added: phonebook, SMS service.
Acquired by the Swiss Post.

Sesam: Norway, Sweden - Based in Norway and

focused on Norway and Sweden.

Walla!: Israel - Search the web in Hebrew with

an Israel focus.

Yandex: Russia - Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a

Russian search engine and one of the largest
Russian Web portals. Yandex was launched in
1997.

Job Bixee (India): Comprehensive jobsearch for

India.
Career Builder: The career builder website.

Craig's List: is a centralized network of online

communities, with free classified ads (with jobs,
internships, housing, personals, services,
community, gigs, resume, and pets categories)
and forums.

CV Fox: A search engine that is designed to

hunt down and retrieve resumes (CV's) from all
over the Internet. Free to use, has become a
popular tool with professional recruiters.

Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For

technology experts in areas such as Information
Technology (IT), software, high tech, security,
biotech, and more. Recently purchased
eFinancialCareers.com.

Eluta.ca (Canada) - High-paying jobs in

Canada directly from employers' websites.
Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+ employers
across Canada.

Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your

resume, research careers at featured
companies, compare salaries and get career
advice on Yahoo! HotJobs.

Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the first

Korean match making site between job seekers
and companies and claims the first Korean
Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998).

Indeed.com: A job 'meta-search' that scours

job boards, newspapers and multiple sources
with one search interface.

Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish

team of MBA's, Poland's leading job portal.
Partially owned by European Media Group
"Orkla Press" from Scandinavia.

JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific focused

job and recruitment site with databases
dedicated to each country in the Asia/Pacific
region.

JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European

job site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on
European jobs with branches in a number of
 European countries.

Jobserve: UK based job search focused

originally on IT Contracting work, but now
covering multiple areas. Resume database,
large number of job postings.

Monster.com: The world's largest resume

database and online job search.

Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job

search engine.

Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows

you to search jobs worldwide.

SimplyHired.com - Job search engine. Search

over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs
sites to find a job you love.

StepStone (Europe): European online

recruitment site based in Scandinavia with
operations and subsidiaries througout Europe.
TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for
professional jobs in the most comprehensive
source of $100K+ jobs on the internet.

Canadian Law List: List of Canadian lawyers.

Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company

FindLaw: Search FindLaw's database of

1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your
area. All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the
Public, by Subject Area.

The Lawyers' List: Search for lawyers all

Legal
across the United States.

LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government,

business and high-tech information sources. By
subscription only.

Martindale.com and LexisNexis, a division of

Martindale.com®
Reed Elsevier Inc.
LexisNexis owned portal for searching for
QuicklawTM
lawyers and things legal (Canada)

Maps Géoportail: French Geographic portal. French

language only.
 Google Maps: Provides directions, interactive
maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United
States as well as other countries. Can also
search by keyword such as type of business.

MapQuest (AOL) was founded in 1967 as

Cartographic Services, a division of R.R.
Donnelley & Sons & became an independent
company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in
2000 by America Online, Inc.

Michelin (Via Michelin): The European map

specialists' webpage includes standard map
features with good European coverage.

Windows Live Maps: Enter an address, click

enter... be sure to check out "Bird's Eye View".
You can see a close-up aerial view of nearly any
US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing.

Yahoo Maps: Maps, directions, reverse-

directions satellite view but no 'bird's-eye-view'.

Medical Bioinformatic Harvester: From the Karlsruhe

Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic
Harvester crawls and crosslinks dozens of
bioinformatic sites and serves 10's of thousands
of pages daily.

Entrez (Pubmed): The life sciences search

engine.

EB-Eye - EMBL-EBI's (European Bioinformatics

Institute): Open-source, high-performance, full-
featured text search engine library written
entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI's
data resources.

Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive

Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine
company concentrating on niche markets:
health search, video games search, and local
business directory search.

GoPubMed: Knowledge-based: GO -
GeneOntology - Searching sorted - Social
network and folsonomy for sciences.

Healia: The health search engine. From the

site, "The high quality and personalized health
search engine".
 KMLE (King's Medical Library Engine): Full
American Heritage Stedman's Medical
Dictionary comprehensive resource including
tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and
abbreviation guides.

MeSH - Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed):

MeshPubMed
Knowledge-based.

SearchMedica: Professional Medical Search

WebMD: A source for health information, a

symptom checklist, pharmacy information, and
a place to store personal medical
information.The leading US Health portal, it
scores over 40 million hits per month.

MetaSear Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a

Brainboost
ch question in natural language, get an answer.

Clusty: The clustering search engine powered

by Vivisimo.

Dogpile: Brings together searches from the top

search engines including Google, Yahoo!
Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA,
LookSmart, and more.

Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of

the most recognized brands on the Internet.
One of the famous 90's dotcoms.

HotBot was one of the early Internet search

engines (since 1996) launched by Wired
Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and
MSN.

Info.com: Metasearch bringing together results

from the top search engines.

ixquick: Eliminate Big Brother! The Ixquick

metasearch engine permanently deletes all
personal search details gleaned from its users.
Based in the Netherlands, results come from 11
search engines.

Kayak: Metasearch for travel - search 140

travel sites all at once for the best deals and
buy tickets and make reservations direct.

Krozilo is a virtual web browser, similar to My

Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and
Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses AJAX and DHTML, so
does not require installation.

Mamma: "The Mother of All Search Engines" -

was one of the web's first metasearch engines
(1996). Now owned by Copernic Inc. of
Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2
search engine.

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that

blends the top web search results from Google,
Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA,
LookSmart and other popular search engines.

MetaLib is a federated search system

developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts
simultaneous searches in multiple resources
such as library catalogs, journal articles,
newspapers and the web.

Mobissimo.com is a travel meta-search

website. Like other travel meta-search websites,
Mobissimo does not sell directly to the
consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a
referral fee.

Myriad Search: Ad-free search lets users

select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN,
and Yahoo! Select search depth and place bias
on the search results from the major search
engines.

Sidestep: Searches over 200 travel-relates

websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare.
Find cheap airfares, discount hotels, car rentals
and cruise deals to popular travel destinations
worldwide.

Surfwax offers a variety of tools for finding,

saving, and sharing information on the Internet,
including Nextaris, the law-article research site
LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax
Scholar services.

Turbo10.com is a metasearch engine which

uncovers information in the Invisible Web.
Turbo10 can access information from 800 online
databases and searches 10 databases
simultaneously.

WebCrawler was used to build the first

 publicly-available full-text index of a subset of
the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top
search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows
Live, Ask and other popular search engines.

MultiMedi YouTube: Owned by Google, the web's largest

a media site. This search will search through the
videos of YouTube only.

blinkx: Over 18 million hours of video . Search

it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine
searching the media files of sites such as
YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and
more.

FreeBookSearch.net: The famous book

searching portal also searches for audiobooks.
This same search will also find MP3 files.

FindSounds: Search engine to find any kind of

FindSounds
sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF, AU - search by
sample rate and quality... a great place to find
those sound effects.

MetaCafe: Search videos hosted by MetaCafe.

If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid
for videos - the more viewers, the more cash.

Musgle: Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based

upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a
clever boolean search string into Google to
return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files.

PBS provides resources to air its standard

programming & also provides its audience with
multiple online archives of specific video
programs. All video archives can be searched
for any spoken word pronounced in them.

Picsearch: Search the web for images. An

image search service with more than
2,000,000,000 pictures.

Podscope: "Introducing: the first search engine

that can find podcasts according to the words
spoken during them!". Finds audio and video
files based upon actual content!

SpeechBot was a search engine for audio &

video. It was created by HP Research, but
unfortunately, is now offline.
 Singing Fish: An audio and video search
engine, now AOL media search.

StrimOO: Video search engine. Find videos on

Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with
one search.

TVEyes: TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable

by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would
use a search engine for text. TVEyes is the first
company to deliver real-time TV and Radio
search.

Veveo / VTap: a video search platform for

mobile phones. Vtap is an offering from Veveo
and it currently works on Apple Iphones as well
as Microsoft Mobile-powered phones.

Web-Cam-Search.com: Search and hack

nearly a million webcams for free on the net.
This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover
cams - public & supposedly 'private'. :-)

Google News: News by Google. Search and

browse 4,500 news sources updated
continuously.

MagPortal: Find individual articles from many

freely accessible magazines by browsing the
categories or using the search engine. You can
mark articles or find similar articles with several
useful tools.

NewsLookup.com: Search thousands of news

sites by source region and media type. News
headlines updated continuously.
News LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government,
business and high-tech information sources. By
subscription only.

Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes

news stories by topic and geography. It was
created by the founders of the Open Directory
Project. Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and
Gannett own 75% of Topix.net.

Yahoo News: Use Yahoo! News to find

breaking news, current events, the latest
headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on
top stories, world, business, politics...
 Open DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured
Source open source web-based search engine released
DataparkSearch under the GNU General Public License and
designed to organize search within a website,
group of websites, intranet or local system.

Egothor is an Open Source, high-performance,

::egothor full-featured text search engine written entirely

in Java. It can be configured as a standalone
engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB, etc.

gonzui is a source code search engine for

accelerating open source software development
gonzui: - a source code search engine that covers vast
quantities of open source codes available on the
Internet.

Grub started back in 2000 with a simple

concept of distributing part of the search
process pipeline: crawling. Their website claims,
"We want to help fix search."

ht://Dig is a complete world wide web indexing

and searching system for a domain or intranet.
ht://Dig is meant to cover the search needs for a
single company, campus, or web site.

The iSearch PHP search engine allows you to

build a searchable database for your web site.
Visitors can search for key words and a list of
any pages that match is returned to them.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-

featured text search engine library written
entirely in Java. Full-text search & cross-
platform. Apache Lucene is an open source
project available for free download.

The Lemur Toolkit is a open-source toolkit

designed to facilitate research in language
modeling and information retrieval. Lemur
supports a wide range of industrial and research
language applications.

mnoGoSearch: Web search engine software.

Namazu Namazu is a full-text search engine intended

for easy use. Not only does it work as a small or
medium scale Web search engine, but also as a
personal search. (Namazu means "Catfish" in
Japanese.)
 Nutch is an effort to build an open source
search engine based on Lucene Java for the
search and index component. The fetcher
("robot" or "web crawler") has been written
from scratch solely for this project.

OpenFTS: OpenSource Full Text Search is an

advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that
provides online indexing of data and relevance
ranking for database searching.

Sciencenet: For scientific knowledge based on

YaCy Technology. Current search engines are
based on popularity and/or sponsored links. This
Sciencenet makes it difficult for
scientists/students/teachers. Sciencenet is the
solution.

Sphinx is a free software search engine

designed with indexing database content in
mind. It currently supports MySQL and
PostgreSQL natively. It is distributed under the
terms of the GNU General Public License v2.

SWISH-Enhanced (Simple Web Indexing

System for Humans - Enhanced) is a fast,
SWISH-E powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system
for indexing collections of Web pages or other
text files.

Terrier is software for the rapid development of

Web, intranet and desktop search engines.A
modular platform for the rapid development of
large-scale Information Retrieval applications.

Wikia Search: Jimmy Wales and Wikia aim to

create a an open source Internetsearch engine,
to which the community can contribute.

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine

Library, released under the GPL. It's written
in C++, with bindings to allow use
from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# andRuby (s
o far!)

YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and

web search engine. One YaCy installation can
store more than 10 million documents, but in a
community of search peers YaCy can provide a
search index of unlimited size.
 Zettair is a compact and fast text search

Zettair engine designed and written by the Search

Engine Group at RMIT University. It was
formerly known as Lucy.

AnyWho.com - Part of AT&T, mostly a

telephone directory and reverse phone number
directory.

Ex.plode.us: Explode is an easy way to find

friends and those with common interests, no
matter what social network or service they use.

Finding-People.com: Finding-People.com is
the best place to start a people search, as they
Finding-People.com
have a huge number of tools all in one place to
find whomever you seek.

InfoSpace: From their webpage, "The yellow

pages and white pages directory
from InfoSpace is the most convenient way to
find people and businesses."

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social

networking site used for professional
People networking. As of March 2008, it had more than
20 million registered users. An easy way to
search for business people or professionals.

Spock advertises itself as, "The world's most

accurate people search. Sign up to find people
you know."

Wink is a free people search engine that helps

you find people at social networks, blogs, and
across the Web.

Zabasearch: Honestly free people search. All

US postal addresses & telephone numbers
ZABASEARCH revealed free. 3-times more listings than white
pages phone directory.

ZoomInfo: Founded in 1999, ZoomInfo is a

Web-based service that extracts information
about people and companies from millions of
published resources.

Question About.com. The majority of their results come

& from their own site. Used to be miningco.com.
Answer
Answers.com Answers.com offers free access to millions of
topics from the world's leading publishers.
 Ask Jeeves was designed to allow users to get
answers to questions posed in everyday, natural
language. Ask.com was the first such
commercial question-answering search engine
for the Web.

AskMeNow: Questions answered from your

mobile telephone. From their site, "We thought
it would be cool if we could get simple answers
from our phone anytime, anywhere — so we
built AskMeNow."

AskWiki Beta is a preliminary integration of a

semantic search engine that seeks to provide
specific answers to questions using information
from Wikipedia articles.

Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a

BrainBoost
question in natural language, get an answer.

eHow is an online knowledge resource with

more than 140000 articles and videos offering
step-by-step instructions on "how to do just
about everything"

Lexxe processes natural language queries and

Lexxealpha delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can
be keywords, phrases or short questions.

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.com.

Powerset is betting on the wisdom of the

crowds with a new online community site called
Powerset Labs. The company hopes the site will
get people to help build and improve its search
engine.

Windows Live QnA: Ask any question and get

answers from people in the know. Try it. Real
Windows Live QnA
answers. A little late to a crowded market, but
Windows is there now too.

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven

knowledge market website launched by Yahoo!
that allows users to ask questions of other users
and answer other users' questions. Over 60
million users.
 ForSaleByOwner.com: Search homes being
sold by their owners without the intermediation
of realtors - save on commission.

Home.co.uk: Comprehensive Property Search

for UK houses for sale, estate agents, house
Home.co.uk prices and guides on buying and selling
property and mortgages advice.

Inman News: Real Estate News search.

Properazzi.com is an online real estate search

engine. Launched in March of 2007 by Yannick
Laclau, it allows users to search and view
property listings for Europe.
Real
Estate Realtor.com: The official site of the National
Association of Realtors. Search listed properties
all across America.

Rightmove: Find property online, search a

wide range of property for sale in various areas
in the UK, London and Overseas
with Rightmove.

Trulia: Find property online, agents can list

their properties free, a robust real estate portal
for homebuyers and sellers.

Zillow provides free real estate information

including homes for sale, comparable homes,
historical sales, home valuation tools and more.

The College Search Engine.com: Searches

the webistes of colleges and universities
worldwide, not just the USA. If it is on a
university website somewhere, this search
engine will find it.

Skoolz.org: Search colleges and universities.

Use this search to search only the websites of
School colleges - to find courses, information,
professors, curricula, etc.

Google University Search allows you to

search a specific site - one school at a time. The
list of schools is comprehensive. Skoolz
searches them all at once, Google University
Search allows them to be searched one at a
time.
 Scirus: The most comprehensive scientific
research tool on the web. Over 450 million
Scientific scientific items indexed at last count. Search
journals, scientists' homepages, courseware,
pre-print server material, patents, more...

Shopping Google Product Search: (Formerly Froogle)

use Google to search for the best deals on
products when you are shopping.

Kelkoo: A Yahoo! company. Also powers

Yahoo!Shopping in several countries.

MSN Shopping: Comparison shopping

made easy: Offering 33,155,627 products from
over 8,000 stores — all in one place — and over
470 pages of shopping advice to help you make
the right choices.

MySimon: Price Comparison Shopping

Nextag Comparison Shopping. Product

directory and search. Shows popular searches -
what others are searching for.

PriceGrabber.com: "Comparison Shopping

beyond compare" Comparison shopping and
search engine.

PriceRunner: Price Comparison website and

search engine

RetailMeNot: From the people who brought

you "BugMeNot", check here before you buy for
discount coupons and promo codes. Why pay
retail when you can find coupons at
RetailMeNot?

Shopping.com: A shopping directory and

search owned by eBay.

Shopwiki: Shopping directory and search

cataloguing some 241,416,304 products, and
counting...

Shopzilla (Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers

find, compare and buy anything, sold by
virtually anyone, anywhere. 20 million unique
visitors according toComScore. BizRate reviews
stores and products.

TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search

 engine as opposed to a comparison search. The
search database includes over 150 Million
products from over 500,000 online stores.

Google Codesearch: Searches public source

code using a variety of parameters.

JavaScriptSearch.org searches for javascripts,

ajax, DHTML and JavaScript snippets from all
over the web. The fastest way to find a
JavaScript. Useful for web developers and
webmasters.

JExamples analyzes the source code of Java

open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat and
Batik and loads them into a java examples
database for easy searching. Enter the name of
Source a Java API Class and click Search.
Code
Koders Searces some 766,893,913 lines of
open source code. Securely searches private
source code. Create and share a custom code
index that is easily searched from Visual Studio,
Eclipse or any browser.
Krugle Code Search Engine can turn your
company's code and related development
assets into a searchable, shareable asset.
PHP Classes Repository: Find the PHP class
you need at PHP Classes. The leading PHP site
for coders. Everything PHP!
Google Groups: Formerly Deja News, Google
Groups lets you post on usenet forums without
Usenet
using a mail client via their easy-to-use web
interface.

Grokker visual Meta Search Engine lets you

choose which sites to search and presents the
Visual results in multiple views - outline view, map
Search view.
Engines Kartoo visual Meta Search Engine searches
multiple search engines and presents its results
in a visual map.
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