CUGG
March 8, 2011
Numerous & Varied
Internet
Search Engines
Comprehensive List
• The Search Engine List:
Comprehensive List of Search
Engines
• The Top 100 Alternative Search
Engines (by Charles Knight,
Alternate Search Engines editor)
General Use
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Google (#1)
Bing
Yahoo (#2)
AltaVista
Cuil (see notes)
Excite
Go.com
HotBot
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AllTheWeb
Galaxy
AOL Search
Live Search
Lycos
GigaBlast
Alexa
MSN (#3)
Ask (#4)
Accounting
• IFAC.com by the
International
Federation of
Accountants
• For resources and
information on
Ifrs and
Accounting.
Bit Torrent
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Btjunkie
Demoniod *
Flix-flux
IsoHunt**
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Mininova
The Pirate Bay
Torrent Spy
Torrentz
Blog
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Amatomu
Bloglines
BlogPerfect*
BlogScope**
• IceRocket
• Sphere
• Technorati
Books
• FreeBookSearch
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
• Google's entry
will not let you
see full text if the
copyright is still
active in your
jurisdiction.
Business
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Alibaba*
Bankers Almanac
Business.com
Hoovers
• Kompass
• LexisNexis**
• ThomaNet
Email
• eMail-Search.org*
• Nicado
• TEK (time equals
knowledge)**
Enterprise
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AskMeNow
Autonomy
Dieselpoint*
dtSearch
Endeca
Exalead
Expert System
Fast Search
Funnelback
• Google Search
Appliance**
• SharePoint (MSN)
• Northern Light
• Open Text
• Oracle
• SAP
• TeraText Suite
• Vivisimo ***
• Zylab
Forum
• Omgili
• Find out what
people are
saying. Personal
experiences,
solutions to
problems, ideas
and opinions.
Games
• CheatSearch*
• Genie Knows
• Wazap**
Human Search
• ChaCha
• Eurekster swicki*
• Mahalo
• Rollyo**
• Trexy
• Wink***
International
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Accoona (China)
Alleba (Phillipines)
Ansearch (Au,NZ,UK)
Araby (Middle Eas)
Baidu*
Daum (Korea)
Guruji**
Goo (Japan)
Miner (Hungary)
Najdi (Slovenia)
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Naver (Korea)
Onet (Poland)
Onkosh (Middle East)
Rambler (Russia)
Rediff***
Sapo (Portugal)
Search.ch (Switzerland)
Sesam (Norway,
Sweden)
• Walla (Israel)
• Yandex****
Job (employment)
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Bixee (India)
Career Builder
Craigslist
CV Fox*
Dice.com**
Eluta (Canada)
Hot Jobs (Yahoo)***
Incruit (Korea)
Indeed
Jobs (Poland)
• JobsDB (Asia,
Pacific)
• JobPilot (European)
• Jobserve (UK)
• Monster.com****
• Naukri.com (India)
• Recruit.net
• SimplyHired
• Stepstone (Europe)
• TheLadders*****
Legal
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Canadian Law List
Lawyers.com
FindLaw*
The Lawyers’
List**
• Lexis Nexis***
• Martindale.com
• Quicklaw (owned
by Lexis Nexis)
Maps
• Geoportail
(French)
• Google maps*
• Mapquest AOL**
• Michelin
• Windows Live
Maps***
• Yahoo Local
Maps****
Medical
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Bioinformatic
Entrez
EB-Eye
Genie Knows
GoPubMed
Healia*
• KMLE Medical
Dictionary
• MeSH**
• Search Medica
• WebMD***
MetaSearch
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Brainboost*
Clusty
Dogpile**
Excite
Hotbot
Info.com
Ixquick***
Kayak****
Krozilo
mamma
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Metacrawler
Metalib*****
Mobissimo
Myriad
Sidestep
Surfwax
Turbo10******
Webcrawler
Multimedia
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YouTube*
Blinkx
FreeBookSearch
FindSounds**
MetaCafe
Musgle
PBS***
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PicSearch****
Podscope
SpeechBot
Singing fish
Strimoo
TVEyes*****
Veveo/Vtap******
Web-Cam-Search
News
• Google News
• MagPortal*
• NewsLookup.com
• LexisNexis
• Topix**
• Yahoo News***
Open Source
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DataparkSearch
Egothor
Gonzui
Grub
Ht://dig*
iSearch
Lucene
Lemur
mnoGoSearch
Namazu
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Nutch
OpenFTS
Sciencenet**
Sphinx
Swish-E***
Terrier
wikiaSearch
Xapian
YaCy
Zettair
People
• AnyWho*
• Explode.Us**
• FindingPeople.com
• InfoSpace
• Linked In***
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Spock
Wink
ZabaSearch****
ZoomInfo
Question & Answer
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About.com
Answers.com
Ask*
AskMeNow**
AskWiki
BrainBoost
eHow***
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LexxeAlpha
LycosiQ
Powerset
Windows Live
QnA
• Yahoo
answers****
Real Estate
• For Sale by
Owner*
• Home.co (U.K.)
• inmanNews
• Properazzi
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Realtor.com**
Rightmove (U.K.)
Trulia
Zillow.com***
School
• The College
Search Engine*
• Skoolz.org**
• Google University
Search***
Scientific
• Scirus
• The most
comprehensive
scientific research
tool on the web.
Over 450 million
scientific items
indexed at last
count.
• Wolfram alpha
• Mathematics,
science, &
technology
Shopping
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Google
Kelkoo
msnShopping*
mySimon**
NexTag**
PriceGrabber**
• PriceRunner**
• RetailMeNot***
• Shopping.com
(owned by eBay)
• Shopwiki
• Shopzilla
• Thefind.com****
Source Code
• Google
• JavaScriptSearch
• Jexamples
• Koders*
• Krugle
• PHP Classes
repository
Use Net
• Google groups*
Formerly Deja News
Visual Search Engines
• Grokker*
• A visual Meta Search
Engine lets you
choose which sites to
search and presents
the results in
multiple views outline view, map
view.
• KartOO**
• A visual Meta Search
Engine, it searches
multiple search
engines and presents
its results in a 2dimensional map.
Blogperfect:
Google-powered
Blog Search
Dieselpoint
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.
FreeBooksearch
ChaCha search
A search engine that pays human "guides" to answer
questions for users.
This is a technique known as social searching.
FindLaw
A database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in
your area.
All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by
Subject Area.
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.
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.
Brainboost
Now Answers.com
Type in a question in natural language,
get an answer.
PicSearch
Search the web for images.
An image search service with
more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.
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.
Spock
"The world's most accurate people search.
Sign up to find people you know."
Answers.com
Offers free access to millions of topics
from the world's leading publishers.
Realtor.com
The official site of the National Association of Realtors.
Search listed properties all across America.
The College Search Engine
Searches the websites of colleges and universities
worldwide, not just the USA.
If it is on a university website somewhere,
this search engine will find it.
Wolfram alpha
Shopzilla
(Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers find,
compare and buy anything, sold by virtually anyone,
anywhere.
Has 20 million unique visitors according to ComScore.
BizRate reviews stores and products.
That’s all folks!