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This page aims to provide a comprehensive list of meta search engines available across the world.
- http://all4one.com
- Displays results from four windows in different frames, dividing the display into equal quarters for each. Display can therefore appear a bit cramped.
(Not available when last checked May 2010.) - http://favitt.com
- Not a true search engine, but a portal to the most popular search engines. favitt provides some customisation of its appearance. Provides access to Google, Bing, YouTube, News, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Digg and others.
- http://file-extension.net/seeker
- A specialist meta-search engine for file extensions. Provides a search across many different file extension lists on the internet. If you need to know about a file extension then this is probably the best place to start.
- http://ilectric.com
- Provides an interface allowing searches across different types of search engines. A bit slow compared with many of the others.
- http://monstercrawler.com/
- Monster crawler. Searches Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask, as well as returning search results from sponsors.
- http://seekky.com
- Meta search engine that uses Google, Yahoo and Live Search, and is available in a wide range of different languages. Seekky also provides access to other tools: an address locator (locating an address on a map), routing tool (for generating a route on a map from A to B), a translator and other tools.
- http://turbo10.com
- Searches against its own search engine (which sites can be added to by pain inclusion only), and a range of others.
- www.9meta.com
- Searches using Gigablast, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Ask, Aol, Bing, Yahoo and Google. 9meta can also be used to search for images, videos or documents (pdfs etc). 9meta also allows visitors to register, enabling them to customise personal preferences.
- www.beaucoup.com
- Uses Ask Jeeves, Lycos, MSN and others.
- www.click4choice.co.uk/meta/
- Click for Choice search engine. Uses Yahoo, MSN and Jeeves.
- www.click4choice.com/meta/
- Click for Choice search engine. Uses Yahoo, MSN and Jeeves.
- www.dogpile.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture and FindWhat. Engines used may change over time.
- www.dosearch.com
- Not a true (meta-)search engine, but a portal to a wide number of search engines.
- www.etools.ch
- Fast and transparent metasearch engine in Swiss quality. Simultaneously queries major Swiss, German and international search engines with one click. Also supports mobile devices.
- www.excite.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- www.formgle.com
- Formgle describes itself as a front end to other search engines. Before you can make a search you need to select which search engines you want to use, these can either be conventional search engines (such as google, yahoo or msn) or ones specific to a given interest sector such as Flights, Translation, Dictionaries etc.
- www.ixquick.com
- Uses: AOL, Altavista, Excite, Fast Search, Goto, Hotbot, Infoseek, Live Directory, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Snap, Webcrawler and Yahoo.
- www.kartoo.com
- Provides a very unique way of displaying results, which does make it stand out from the crowd.
- www.mamma.com
- Searches Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.
- www.metacrawler.com
- Uses Infoseek, LookSmart, Lycos, WebCrawler, GoTo, DirectHit, Google, Internet Keyword, FindWhat. Engines used may change over time.
- www.ownmine.com
- Meta search engine that collects search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. Also includes a live chat facility to chatting with other users with similar searches.
- www.search.com
- Uses Snap, Direct Hit,Yahoo, Lycos, Inktomi and others.
- www.search3.com
- Search3 provides results from Google, twitter and bing, presenting these in separate columns on one page.
- www.surfwax.com
- Provides results from AllTheWeb, Yahoo and MSN.
- www.tripleme.com
- The TripleMe Search Engine fetches results from MSN, Yahoo, Google on one screen to search more efficiently. One screen - 30 results. You can search locally or globally, supports all languages, all results and spelling suggestions. Also, you can compare performance of different search engines. Site opens separate windows for each search engine selected, so in this sense it is not a true meta-search engine.
- www.webcrawler.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
- www.webnocular.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo and Bing. Also allows searches across jobs, classified, RealEstate, and others.
The following are not browser based meta-search engine, but are installable software. They do otherwise provide similar functionality:
- www.ferretsoft.com
- WebFerret (Windows platforms only) searches using a number of search engines and presents the results as a single (although often lengthy) list. Free.
- www.puffinwarellc.com
- iMetaSearch is a Windows based meta search tool that automatically creates topics of related results and a word/phrase index using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). What makes it unique is that all the results, topics and words are linked together based on LSA computations so that check marking any result, topic or word, finds related ones.
Both a free and paid (professional) versions are available. The free version uses Google and limits results to 100. The professional (paid) version uses a number of additional search engines and imposes no limits on the number of results.
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I've put together a list of 150+ general web search engines; that is to say, search engines that search the web. It is not a complete listing, nor is it a 'best of'; it's just a collection of engines that I know about and that I've blogged about as well
Web search engines - the current listing:
Abbreviations for abbreviations
ABC Search engine - every search starts with ABC
About for guidance, not guesswork
Acronym finder - for over 750,000 human edited definitions
Ajaxwhois is a great for site statistics searches
Alexa is good for finding information on the top 100k sites
AllPlus - meta search and discovery engine
AlltheWeb - part of the Yahoo family
AltaVista is still out there, still doing a good job
Answers is the world's leading Q&A site
AOL Search no, I didn't think it was still going, but it is
Ask (Jeeves) still limping along, shadow of its former self
Ask if you want the US/global version
Azoos is the brightest yellow search engine out there
Backtype for realtime conversational search
Beaucoup has been around a while, but doesn't impress me
Behold for flickr images
Betterwhois gets you good accurate information on domains
Blindsearch to compare results of major engines
Blinkx is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it!
Browsys is a multi search engine
ChaCha allows you get other people to help with your search
Clusty provides good clustered results
Collarity for personalised searching across different types of data
Collecta for real time search
CompletePlant for 70k of searchable databases. Good for deep web
Country search engines is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries
Definitions is good for thousands of definitions
Deepdyve for deep web searching
Digital Librarian; a librarian's choice of the best of the web
DMOZ for a hierarchical directory, old but still good
Dogpile for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB)
Dooblet finds alternatives for you
Draze to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing
DuckDuckGo is a family safe engine
eBingBong is another social search engine
Entireweb is a freetext search engine
Exalead is an excellent alternative to Google
Excite is there, but does anyone use it any more?
Factbites where results make sense
Factery Labs finds facts on trending subjects
FaganFinder is a superb collection of search resources
Fefoo multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines
Findanyfilm available in the UK in any format
FindSounds for sound effects
FinQoo is an underwhelming meta search engine
Freesearch is a UK based search resource
Galaxy is a directory based search engine
Google doesn't need any words from me
Great PDF search engine - does exactly that - PDF search
healia is an excellent medical search engine
Hotbot is a blast from the past and that's about all
Hunch is a decision engine, which works very well indeed
iBoogie is a clustering meta search engine
Icerocket has RSS feed options and is a good alternative
IllumiRate lights your way through the web. Apparently.
Infomine for scholarly data, and is excellent
Info Service is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though
Internet Archive to see all those old pages!
Intute for academic resources. First class service
Irazoo search, win gift cards. I want to search, not win $5
Iseek is a clustering search engine; very good too
Ixquick is an excellent metasearch engine
Jux2 compares Google, Yahoo and Bing results. Very useful
KidsClick is websearch for children by librarians
KidRex is another children's safe search engine
Kngine styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine
Librarians' Internet Index is a brilliant resource
LocateTV find shows, actors and movies
Lycos is still out there, but getting old and creaky
Mahalo for social search, human created information resources
Mamma is the mother of all meta search engines
Melzoo results on the left, fullscreen page on the right pane
MetaCrawler is a meta search engine
Middlespot is a visual search engine
Monstercrawler for a GYAB search
Navisso is a search engine that doesn't push official sites up
Newscred for credible news stories
Nobrandsearch Search 3 engines blindtesting. Which is best?
OAIster for academic material that's otherwise hard to find
OmniMedicalSearch is a top notch medical search engine
OneRiot for realtime search
Oxysearch is a multi search engine for GYAB and Pixsy
Panabee for comparing results from different search engines
Pepesearch for freetext and directory search. Not impressed
Phrases.net for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms
Pinakes is a superb collection of virtual libraries
Pokersites is the premier guide to the best online poker sites
PolyMeta is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine
Questfinder is a selective web directory
Quotes.net for famous and not so famous quotations
Quintura for visual search in a word/tag cloud
Redz for visual search - an arch of webpage thumbnails
References is a good source of reference resources
Re-QUEST is a directory based engine
Rhymes.net is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as well.
Scandoo checks for authority of the results it returns
Scirus for scientific data - great for academic use
Scoopler for real time search
Scour to search socially, see community votes and comments
Searchbug for people and company search in the US
Search is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it
Searchboth lets you compare results for 9 different engines
Searchbots is a 'build your own' resource
Searchdazzle puts 4 engines on one page. Messy!
Searchhippo is another multisearch engine that doesn't excite me
SearchMedia is a UK medical search engine for professionals
Searchthenet is a multisearch engine - 20 engines offered
SearchtheWeb is a directory engine which fails to impress
Select Surf selects the best sites the web has to offer, apparently
Sency for real time, what's happening this moment information
Similar-site finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similarsites finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similicio.us finds similar sites to that which you provide
Silobreaker is the #1 news site out there, bar none
Siteslike is a find similar sites engine
SlideFinder searches for Powerpoint presentations
Slider is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ
SmartLinks provides quick links in a directory structure
Spacetime 3D looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine
Spezify for multisearch visual results
Sproose search and recommend social search engine
Stilltasty is a food date/edibility search engine
Struly is a very neat multi search engine
Surchur for real time search
Sunsteam is a directory engine, now 10 years old
Sweetsearch evaluated sources designed for students
Synonyms net is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource
Technorati for blog search
The Net 1 is a directory engine
Thunderstone is a website catalog, directory based engine
Tinker for real time serach didn't impress me in the slightest
TopSite Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject
Trooker is a great video search engine resource
Turbo10 used to be a great hidden web engine, now just freetext
Turboscout is an excellent multi search engine
Tweepsearch for Twitter biography searching
Twurdy checks for readability in search results
WebBrain is a human created set of search resources
WebCrawler is a meta engine for GYAB
Webkruz is a visual search engine
Web-Search is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources
WebWorld for quality sites on the web, in a directory style
Whozat is the people search engine
Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine; good but different!
Wozzon is a UK events search engine. Works well
WWW Virtual Library for directory listing of virtual libraries
Xaphoo is a multi search engine but not exciting
Yabigo searches Yahoo, Bing and Google
Yahoo needs no introduction either
Yahoo for kids safe search
Yelbol is a knowledge based (smart) search
Yohogo is a multi search engine, but nothing special
YouTube is for videos, but you knew that already
Zakta is a personalised search engine resource
Zapmeta searches all the major engines
123 people is a UK people search engine
Abbreviations for abbreviations
ABC Search engine - every search starts with ABC
About for guidance, not guesswork
Acronym finder - for over 750,000 human edited definitions
Ajaxwhois is a great for site statistics searches
Alexa is good for finding information on the top 100k sites
AllPlus - meta search and discovery engine
AlltheWeb - part of the Yahoo family
AltaVista is still out there, still doing a good job
Answers is the world's leading Q&A site
AOL Search no, I didn't think it was still going, but it is
Ask (Jeeves) still limping along, shadow of its former self
Ask if you want the US/global version
Azoos is the brightest yellow search engine out there
Backtype for realtime conversational search
Beaucoup has been around a while, but doesn't impress me
Behold for flickr images
Betterwhois gets you good accurate information on domains
Blindsearch to compare results of major engines
Blinkx is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it!
Browsys is a multi search engine
ChaCha allows you get other people to help with your search
Clusty provides good clustered results
Collarity for personalised searching across different types of data
Collecta for real time search
CompletePlant for 70k of searchable databases. Good for deep web
Country search engines is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries
Definitions is good for thousands of definitions
Deepdyve for deep web searching
Digital Librarian; a librarian's choice of the best of the web
DMOZ for a hierarchical directory, old but still good
Dogpile for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB)
Dooblet finds alternatives for you
Draze to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing
DuckDuckGo is a family safe engine
eBingBong is another social search engine
Entireweb is a freetext search engine
Exalead is an excellent alternative to Google
Excite is there, but does anyone use it any more?
Factbites where results make sense
Factery Labs finds facts on trending subjects
FaganFinder is a superb collection of search resources
Fefoo multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines
Findanyfilm available in the UK in any format
FindSounds for sound effects
FinQoo is an underwhelming meta search engine
Freesearch is a UK based search resource
Galaxy is a directory based search engine
Google doesn't need any words from me
Great PDF search engine - does exactly that - PDF search
healia is an excellent medical search engine
Hotbot is a blast from the past and that's about all
Hunch is a decision engine, which works very well indeed
iBoogie is a clustering meta search engine
Icerocket has RSS feed options and is a good alternative
IllumiRate lights your way through the web. Apparently.
Infomine for scholarly data, and is excellent
Info Service is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though
Internet Archive to see all those old pages!
Intute for academic resources. First class service
Irazoo search, win gift cards. I want to search, not win $5
Iseek is a clustering search engine; very good too
Ixquick is an excellent metasearch engine
Jux2 compares Google, Yahoo and Bing results. Very useful
KidsClick is websearch for children by librarians
KidRex is another children's safe search engine
Kngine styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine
Librarians' Internet Index is a brilliant resource
LocateTV find shows, actors and movies
Lycos is still out there, but getting old and creaky
Mahalo for social search, human created information resources
Mamma is the mother of all meta search engines
Melzoo results on the left, fullscreen page on the right pane
MetaCrawler is a meta search engine
Middlespot is a visual search engine
Monstercrawler for a GYAB search
Navisso is a search engine that doesn't push official sites up
Newscred for credible news stories
Nobrandsearch Search 3 engines blindtesting. Which is best?
OAIster for academic material that's otherwise hard to find
OmniMedicalSearch is a top notch medical search engine
OneRiot for realtime search
Oxysearch is a multi search engine for GYAB and Pixsy
Panabee for comparing results from different search engines
Pepesearch for freetext and directory search. Not impressed
Phrases.net for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms
Pinakes is a superb collection of virtual libraries
Pokersites is the premier guide to the best online poker sites
PolyMeta is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine
Questfinder is a selective web directory
Quotes.net for famous and not so famous quotations
Quintura for visual search in a word/tag cloud
Redz for visual search - an arch of webpage thumbnails
References is a good source of reference resources
Re-QUEST is a directory based engine
Rhymes.net is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as well.
Scandoo checks for authority of the results it returns
Scirus for scientific data - great for academic use
Scoopler for real time search
Scour to search socially, see community votes and comments
Searchbug for people and company search in the US
Search is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it
Searchboth lets you compare results for 9 different engines
Searchbots is a 'build your own' resource
Searchdazzle puts 4 engines on one page. Messy!
Searchhippo is another multisearch engine that doesn't excite me
SearchMedia is a UK medical search engine for professionals
Searchthenet is a multisearch engine - 20 engines offered
SearchtheWeb is a directory engine which fails to impress
Select Surf selects the best sites the web has to offer, apparently
Sency for real time, what's happening this moment information
Similar-site finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similarsites finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similicio.us finds similar sites to that which you provide
Silobreaker is the #1 news site out there, bar none
Siteslike is a find similar sites engine
SlideFinder searches for Powerpoint presentations
Slider is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ
SmartLinks provides quick links in a directory structure
Spacetime 3D looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine
Spezify for multisearch visual results
Sproose search and recommend social search engine
Stilltasty is a food date/edibility search engine
Struly is a very neat multi search engine
Surchur for real time search
Sunsteam is a directory engine, now 10 years old
Sweetsearch evaluated sources designed for students
Synonyms net is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource
Technorati for blog search
The Net 1 is a directory engine
Thunderstone is a website catalog, directory based engine
Tinker for real time serach didn't impress me in the slightest
TopSite Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject
Trooker is a great video search engine resource
Turbo10 used to be a great hidden web engine, now just freetext
Turboscout is an excellent multi search engine
Tweepsearch for Twitter biography searching
Twurdy checks for readability in search results
WebBrain is a human created set of search resources
WebCrawler is a meta engine for GYAB
Webkruz is a visual search engine
Web-Search is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources
WebWorld for quality sites on the web, in a directory style
Whozat is the people search engine
Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine; good but different!
Wozzon is a UK events search engine. Works well
WWW Virtual Library for directory listing of virtual libraries
Xaphoo is a multi search engine but not exciting
Yabigo searches Yahoo, Bing and Google
Yahoo needs no introduction either
Yahoo for kids safe search
Yelbol is a knowledge based (smart) search
Yohogo is a multi search engine, but nothing special
YouTube is for videos, but you knew that already
Zakta is a personalised search engine resource
Zapmeta searches all the major engines
123 people is a UK people search engine
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