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Search Engine List
General
Geographical limited scope
- Accoona, China/US
- Alleba, Philippines
- Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ
- Daum,
Korea
- Goo, Japan
- Guruji.com,
India
- Leit.is, Iceland
- Maktoob, Arab
World
- Onkosh, Arab
World
- Miner.hu, Hungary
- Najdi.si, Slovenia
- Naver,
Korea
- Rambler, Russia
- Rediff, India
- SAPO, Portugal/Angola/Cabo
Verde
/Mozambique
Accountancy
Business
Enterprise
See also: Enterprise search
Ethnic
Mobile/Handheld
Job
Main article: Job search engine
Legal
Medical
News
People
Real property
Television
Video Games
By
information type
Search
engines dedicated to a specific kind of information
Forum
Blog
Multimedia
See also: Multimedia search
Source code
BitTorrent
These search
engines work across the BitTorrent protocol.
Email
Maps
Price
Question and answer
Human answers
Automatic answers
See also: Question answering
Natural language
See also: Natural language search engine and Semantic search
By model
Open source search engines
Semantic browsing engines
Social search
engines
See also: Social search, Relevance feedback, and Human search engine
Metasearch engines
See also: Metasearch engine
Visual search engines
Search appliances
Desktop search engines
See also: Desktop search
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Name
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Platform
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Remarks
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License
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Autonomy
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Windows
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IDOL Enterprise Desktop Search.
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Proprietary, commercial
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Beagle
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Linux
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Open source desktop
search tool for Linux based on Lucene
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A mix of the X11/MIT License and the Apache License
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Copernic Desktop Search
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Windows
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Considered best overall search engine in 2005 UW
benchmark study.[1]
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Free for
home use
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Docco
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cross-platform (Java)
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Based on Apache's indexing and search engine Lucene, and it requires a Java Runtime Environment.
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BSD License [2]
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Docfetcher
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Cross-platform
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Open source
desktop search tool for Windows and Linux, based on Apache Lucene
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Eclipse Public License
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dtSearch Desktop
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Windows
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Proprietary (30 day trial)
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Easyfind
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Mac OS
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Freeware
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Google Desktop
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Linux, Mac OS, Windows
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Integrates with the main Google search engine page. 5.9
Release now supports x64 systems.
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Freeware
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GNOME Storage
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Linux
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Open Source desktop
search tool for Unix/Linux
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GPL
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imgSeek
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Linux, Mac OS, Windows
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Desktop content-based image search
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GPL v2 [3]
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InSight Desktop Search
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Windows
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Metadata-based search utility
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Freeware
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ISYS Search Software
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Windows
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ISYS:desktop search
software.
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Proprietary (14 day trial)
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Likasoft Archivarius 3000
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Windows
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-
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Proprietary (30 day trial)
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Meta Tracker
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Linux, Unix
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Open Source desktop search tool for
Unix/Linux
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GPL v2 [4]
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Recoll
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Linux, Unix
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Open Source desktop search tool for
Unix/Linux
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GPL [5]
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Spotlight
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Mac OS
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Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases.
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Proprietary
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Strigi
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Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows
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Cross-platform open source desktop search engine
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LGPL v2 [6]
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Terrier Search Engine
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Linux, Mac OS, Unix
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Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS
X (Tiger), Unix/Linux.
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MPL
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Tropes Zoom
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Windows
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Semantic Search Engine.
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Freeware and commercial
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Windows Search
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Windows
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Part of Windows Vista and later OSs. Available
as Windows Desktop Search for Windows XP and Server 2003. Does not support indexing
UNC paths on x64 systems.
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Proprietary, freeware
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X1 Professional Client
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Windows
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Formerly Yahoo Desktop Search, then X1 Desktop Search,
then X1 Enterprise Client
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Proprietary (30 day trial)
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Usenet
Based on
Google
Yahoo!
Bing
Ask.com
Acquired or
defunct search engines