From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Outline of search engines
Outline of search engines
The following outline is provided as an overview of and or displays them according to their source.
topical guide to search engines: Metasearch engines enable users to enter search
Search engine – information retrieval system de- criteria once and access several search engines
signed to help find information stored on a computer sys- simultaneously.
tem. The search results are usually presented in a list and • Organic search engine – manually operated search
are commonly called hits. service which uses a combination of computer
algorithms and human researchers to look up a
Nature of search engines search query. A search query submitted to an
organic search engine is analysed by a human
A search engine can be described as all of the following: operator who researches the query then formats the
• Software – response to the user.
• Computer program – • Web search engine – designed to search for
• Application software – computer software information on the World Wide Web and FTP
designed to help the user to perform specific servers. The search results are generally presented
tasks. Also known as an application or an in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or
"app". "search engine results pages".
• Audio search engine – web-based search engine
Essence of search engines which crawls the web for audio content.
• Search engine technology • Collaborative search engine – emerging trend for
• Search algorithm Web search and Enterprise search within
company intranets. CSEs let users concert their
efforts in information retrieval (IR) activities,
Types of search engines share information resources collaboratively
• Database search engine – using knowledge tags, and allow experts to guide
• Desktop search engine – less experienced people through their searches.
• Distributed search engine – search engine where • Social search engine – type of web search that
there is no central server. Unlike traditional takes into account the Social Graph of the person
centralized search engines, work such as crawling, initiating the search query.
data mining, indexing, and query processing is • Video search engine – web-based search engine
distributed among several peers in decentralized which crawls the web for video content. Some
manner where there is no single point of control. video search engines parse externally hosted
• Enterprise search engine – search engine employed content while others allow content to be
on and for access to the information on an uploaded and hosted on their own servers.
organization’s computer network. • Visual search engine – designed to search for
• Human search engine – uses human participation to information on the World Wide Web through the
filter the search results and assist users in clarifying input of an image or a search engine with a visual
their search request. The goal is to provide users display of the search results. Information may
with a limited number of relevant results, as opposed consist of web pages, locations, other images and
to traditional search engines that often return a other types of documents. This type of search
large number of results that may or may not be engines is mostly used to search on the mobile
relevant. Internet through an image of an unknown object
• Hybrid search engine – uses different types of data (unknown search query).
with or without ontologies to produce the
algorithmically generated results based on web
crawling. Previous types of search engines only use
Search-based applications
text to generate their results. • Search-based application –
• Intelligent medical search engine • Bibliographic database
• Metasearch engine – search tool[1] that sends user • Online database
requests to several other search engines and/or • List of online databases
databases and aggregates the results into a single list
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• List of academic databases and search • Ixquick
engines • Kayak
• Digital library • LeapFish
• List of digital library projects • Mamma
• List of online magazines • Metacrawler
• Wikipedia:List of online newspaper • MetaLib
archives • Mobissimo
• Electronic journal • Myriad Search
• Lists of academic journals • SideStep
• List of open-access journals • Turbo10
• Digital encyclopedia • WebCrawler
• Internet encyclopedia • Zuula
• List of online encyclopedias
• Wiki Geographically limited scope
• List of wikis • Accoona, China/United States
• Digital dictionary • Alleba, Philippines
• Online dictionary • Ansearch, Australia/United States/United
• List of online dictionaries Kingdom/New Zealand
• Biglobe, Japan
• Daum, Korea
Specific search engines • Goo, Japan
• List of semantic search engines • Guruji.com, India
• Leit.is, Iceland
By content/topic • Maktoob, Arab World
• Onkosh, Arab World
General • Miner.hu, Hungary
• Baidu (Chinese, Japanese) • Najdi.si, Slovenia
• Bing • Naver, Korea
• Blekko • Rambler, Russia
• DuckDuckGo • Rediff, India
• Google • SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo Verde/Mozambique
• Sogou (Chinese) • Search.ch, Switzerland
• Soso.com (Chinese) • Sesam, Norway, Sweden
• Yahoo! • Seznam, Czech Republic
• Yandex (Russian) • Walla!, Israel
• Yebol • Yandex, Russia
• Yodao (Chinese) • Yehey!, Philippines
• WireDoo • ZipLocal, Canada/United States
• Volunia
Accountancy
P2P search engines
• IFACnet
• FAROO
• Seeks (Open Source) Business
• YaCy (Free and fully decentralized) • Business.com
• GlobalSpec
Metasearch engines
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
See also: Metasearch engine • Thomasnet (United States)
• Brainboost • GenieKnows (United States and Canada)
• ChunkIt!
• Clusty Enterprise
• DeeperWeb See also: Enterprise search
• Dogpile • AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution
• Excite • Concept Searching Limited: concept search products
• Harvester42 • Coveo: Coveo Enterprise Search platform, Coveo
• HotBot Expresso
• Info.com • Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation
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• dtSearch: dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web Medical
• Endeca: Information Access Platform • Bing Health
• Exalead: exalead one:enterprise • Bioinformatic Harvester
• Expert System S.p.A.: Cogito • EB-eye EMBL-EBI’s Search engine
• Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform • Entrez (includes Pubmed)
(ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) • GenieKnows
• Funnelback: Funnelback Search • GoPubMed (knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology
• IBM: OmniFind Enterprise Edition and MeSH - Medical Subject Headings)
• Inbenta: Inbenta Semantic Search Engine • Healia
• ISYS Search Software: ISYS:web, ISYS:sdk • Healthline
• Jumper 2.0: Universal search powered by Enterprise • Nextbio (Life Science Search Engine)
bookmarking • PubGene
• Microsoft: SharePoint Search Services • Quertle (Semantic search of the biomedical
• Northern Light literature)
• Open Text: Hummingbird Search Server, Livelink • Searchmedica
Search • VADLO (Life Sciences Search Engine)
• Oracle Corporation: Secure Enterprise Search 10g • WebMD
• SAP: TREX
• TeraText: TeraText Suite News
• Vivisimo: Vivisimo Clustering Engine • Bing News
• X1 Technologies : X1 Enterprise Search • Google News
• ZyLAB Technologies: ZyIMAGE Information Access • Daylife
Platform • MagPortal
• Newslookup
Food/Recipes
• Nexis (Lexis Nexis)
• Yummly: semantic recipe search • Topix.net
• RecipeBridge: vertical search engine for recipes • Yahoo! News
Mobile/Handheld People
• Black Google Mobile • Comfibook
• Taganode Local Search Engine • Ex.plode.us
• Taptu: taptu mobile/social search • InfoSpace
• PeekYou
Job
• Spock
Main article: Job search engine • Spokeo
• Bixee.com (India) • Wink
• CareerBuilder.com (USA) • Zabasearch.com
• Craigslist (by city) • ZoomInfo
• Dice.com (USA)
• Eluta.ca (Canada) Real estate / property
• Hotjobs.com (USA) • Fizber.com
• Incruit (Korea) • HotPads.com
• Indeed.com (USA) • Redfin
• LinkUp.com (USA) • Rightmove
• Monster.com (USA), (India) • Zillow.com
• Naukri.com (India)
• Yahoo! HotJobs (Countrywise subdomains, Television
International) • TV Genius
• ZipRecruiter (USA)
Video Games
Legal • Wazap (Japan)
• WestLaw
• Lexis (Lexis Nexis) By information type
• Google Scholar
Search engines dedicated to a specific kind of informa-
• Quicklaw
tion
• Manupatra
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Forum • MapQuest
• Omgili • OpenStreetMap
• WikiMapia
Blog • Yahoo! Maps
• Amatomu
Price
• Bloglines
• BlogPulse • Bing Shopping
• BlogScope • BestPrice
• IceRocket • Google Product Search (formerly Froogle)
• Technorati • Kelkoo
• Regator • MySimon
• PriceGrabber
Multimedia • PriceRunner
See also: Multimedia search • PriceSCAN
• Bing Videos • Pronto.com
• blinkx • Shopping.com
• FindSounds • ShopWiki
• Google Video • Shopzilla (also operates Bizrate)
• Munax’s PlayAudioVideo • SwoopThat.com
• Picsearch • TheFind.com
• Pixsta • Wishabi
• Podscope
Question and answer
• ScienceStage
• Songza Human answers
• SeeqPod • Answers.com
• TV Genius • DeeperWeb
• Veveo • eHow
• TinEye • Quora
• Yahoo! Video • Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange Network
• YouTube • Uclue
• Yahoo! Answers
Source code • wikiHow
• Google Code Search
• JExamples Automatic answers
• Koders See also: Question answering
• Krugle • AskMeNow
• BrainBoost
BitTorrent • True Knowledge
These search engines work across the BitTorrent proto- • Wolfram Alpha
col.
• Btjunkie Natural language
• FlixFlux See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic
• Isohunt search
• Mininova • Ask.com
• The Pirate Bay • Bing (Semantic ability is powered by Powerset)
• TorrentSpy • BrainBoost
• Torrentz • hakia
• Lexxe
Email • Powerset
• Lookeen
• TEK By model
Maps Open source search engines
• Bing Maps • DataparkSearch
• Géoportail • Egothor
• Google Maps • Grub
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• Ht://dig Usenet
• Isearch • Google Groups (formerly Deja News)
• Lucene
• Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine Based on
• mnoGoSearch
• Namazu Google
• Nutch • AOL Search
• OpenFTS • CompuServe Search
• Recoll • Groovle
• Sciencenet (for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy • MySpace Search
technology) • Netscape
• Seeks • Ripple
• Sphinx
• SWISH-E Bing
• Terrier Search Engine • A9.com
• Wikia Search • Alexa Internet
• Xapian • Ciao!
• YaCy • Facebook
• Zettair • Tafiti
• Ms. Dewey
Semantic browsing engines
• Yahoo! Search
• Evri • AltaVista
• Hakia • Everyclick (formerly based on Ask.com)
• Yebol • Ecosia (an ecologically motivated site supporting
sustainable rain forests - formerly known as
Social search engines
Forestle)
See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human • GoodSearch
search engine • Rectifi
• ChaCha Search
• Delver Ask.com
• Eurekster • Hakia (semantic search)
• Mahalo.com • iWon
• OneRiot • Lycos
• Rollyo • Teoma
• SearchTeam
• Sproose Acquired or defunct search engines
• Trexy
• AlltheWeb
• Wikia search
• BRS/Search (now OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery
• Wink provides web search by analyzing user
Server)
contributions such as bookmarks and feedback
• Cuil
Visual search engines • Direct Hit Technologies (acquired by Ask Jeeves in
January, 2000)
• ChunkIt!
• Ecocho
• Grokker
• Google Answers
• Pixsta
• Infoseek
• PubGene
• Inktomi
• TinEye
• Kartoo
• Viewzi
• Lotus Magellan
Search appliances • Overture.com (formerly GoTo.com, now Yahoo!
• Google: Google Search Appliance Search Marketing)
• PubSub
• RetrievalWare (acquired by Fast Search & Transfer
Desktop search engines and now owned by Microsoft)
See also: Desktop search • Singingfish
• Sphere
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Outline of search engines
Name Platform Remarks License
Autonomy Windows IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search. Proprietary,
commercial
Beagle Linux Open source desktop search tool for Linux based on Lucene A mix of the
X11/MIT Li-
cense and the
Apache License
Copernic Desk- Windows Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW benchmark Free for home
top Search study.[1] use
Docfetcher Cross-platform Open source desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based Eclipse Public
on Apache Lucene License
dtSearch Desk- Windows Proprietary (30
top day trial)
Easyfind Mac OS Freeware
Everything Windows Find files and folders by name instantly on NTFS volumes Freeware
Google Desktop Linux, Mac OS, Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9 Re- Freeware
Windows lease now supports x64 systems. As of September 14, 2011,
Google has discontinued this product.
GNOME Storage Linux Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL
imgSeek Linux, Mac OS, Desktop content-based image search GPL v2 [2]
Windows
InSight Desktop Windows Metadata-based search utility Freeware
Search
ISYS Search Windows ISYS:desktop search software. Proprietary (14
Software day trial)
Locate32 Windows Graphical port of Unix’s locate & updatedb BSD License[3]
Meta Tracker Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [4]
Recoll Linux, Unix Open Source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL [5]
Spotlight Mac OS Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary
Strigi Linux, Unix, So- Cross-platform open source desktop search engine LGPL v2 [6]
laris, Mac OS X
and Windows
Terrier Search Linux, Mac OS, Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL
Engine Unix
Tropes Zoom Windows Semantic Search Engine. Freeware and
commercial
Windows Windows Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available as Windows Proprietary,
Search Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003. Does not sup- freeware
port indexing UNC paths on x64 systems.
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Tafiti
Wikia Search
General search engine con-
• WiseNut cepts
• World Wide Web Worm
• Human flesh search engine
• Search engine indexing
• Internet search engines and libraries
• Search aggregator
• Search engine image protection
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Outline of search engines
• Search engine marketing • Outline of Google
• Pay per click
• Cost per impression
• Search analytics
References
• Web analytics [1] "Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools".
• Search engine optimization http://www.uwebi.org/reports/
• Search engine optimization copywriting desktop_search.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
• Search engine results page [2] According to COPYING in SVN trunk on
• Search engine submission SourceForge.
• Search engine technology [3] According to http://www.softpedia.com/get/
Internet/Servers/Database-Utils/Locate32.shtml
[4] According to COPYING in SVN trunk.
Persons influential in search [5] According to [1].
engines [6] According to COPYING in version 0.5.10 tar.bz2
package.
• Eric Schmidt
• Sergey Brin
• Larry Page External links
• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at
See also wikimindmap.com
• Outline of the Internet
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