Internet search engines

Google Search is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. Google Search is the most-visited website in the world. As of 2025, Google Search has a 90% share of the global search engine market. Approximately 24.1% of Google's monthly global traffic comes from the United States, 5.6% from India, 5.5% from Japan, 4.8% from Brazil, and 3.7% from the United Kingdom according to data provided by Similarweb. The same source reports that 58% of users are male and 42% are female.

web search engine from Microsoft

software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web

former American web traffic analysis company

Yandex LLC (, ) is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company.

Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of other internet services such as Baidu App (Baidu's flagship app for search and newsfeed), Baidu Baike (an online user created Wikipedia-like encyclopedia), iQIYI (a video streaming service), and Baidu Tieba (a forum platform similar to Reddit).

DuckDuckGo is an American software company focused on online privacy whose flagship product is a search engine named DuckDuckGo. Founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, its later products include browser extensions and a custom DuckDuckGo web browser. Headquartered in Paoli, Pennsylvania, DuckDuckGo is a privately held company with about 200 employees. The company's name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.

Ecosia (derived from "eco" and "utopia") is a non-profit tech organisation based in Berlin, Germany. It runs its namesake internet search engine, which launched on 7 December 2009 to coincide with UN climate talks in Copenhagen. More recently the organisation has launched additional products such as a namesake web browser.

privacy-focused search engine

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Naver (; stylized as NAVER) is a South Korean online platform operated by the Naver Corporation. The company's products include a search engine, email hosting, blogs, maps, and mobile payment.

knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's results

Russian internet company

Startpage, also known as Startpage.com, is a Netherlands-based search engine website that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature. The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Bing Search and Google Search results while protecting users' privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers. Startpage.com also includes an Anonymous View browsing feature that allows users the option to open search results via proxy for increased anonymity. Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American int

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search tool that uses other search engines' data to produce their own results from the Internet

Ask.com (known originally as Ask Jeeves) is an answer engine, e-magazine, and former web search engine, operated by Ask Media Group. It was conceptualized and developed in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen, based in Berkeley, California.

Elasticsearch is a source-available search engine developed by Elastic. It is based on Apache Lucene and provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Official clients are available in Java, C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, and other languages. According to the DB-Engines ranking, Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine.

CiteSeerX (often stylized as CiteSeer; formerly called CiteSeer) was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers, primarily in the fields of computer and information science.

Lycos, Inc. (stylized as LYCOS) is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is a subsidiary of Ybrant Digital.

YaCy (pronounced “ya see”) is a free distributed search engine built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, created by Michael Christen in 2003. The engine is written in Java and distributed on several hundred "YaCy-peer" computers, .

South Korean web portal

American web search engine

elgooG is the word Google spelled backwards. It has been used in the URL of an unofficial joke mirror site of Google Search, which allowed users from Mainland China to bypass the Great Firewall.

web search engine by Yahoo!

web search engine

websites and pages easily accessible to user agents

Pages displayed by search engines in response to a query. The main component of the SERP is the listing of results in response to a keyword query. Pages may also contain other sponsored results (search engine advertising).

visible and clickable text in an HTML hyperlink

You.com is an artificial intelligence search startup that has pivoted away from consumer search engine operations toward business-focused AI tools and APIs.

web search engine owned by Yandex

Giphy (, ), styled as GIPHY, is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files.

service on Internet

South Korean web portal

internet portal

formats for the sharing of search results suitable for syndication and aggregation

FTP search engine

Japanese subsidiary of South Korean internet search giant Naver

open source web crawler software

search engine focusing on a specific segment of online content

WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full-text search.

HotBot is a Canadian web search engine owned by HotBot Limited, whose key principal is Kristen Richardson. The search engine was initially launched in North America in 1996 by Wired magazine. During the 1990s, it was one of the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web. The domain was sold in 2016 and was used for other unrelated purposes for several years. Hotbot search engine was relaunched in 2022 under new ownership and with a different technology.

TinEye is a reverse image search engine developed and offered by Idée, Inc., a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. TinEye allows users to search not using keywords but with images. Upon submitting an image, TinEye creates a "unique and compact digital signature or fingerprint" of the image and matches it with other indexed images. This procedure is able to match even heavily edited versions of the submitted image, but will not usually return similar images

Quaero (Latin for I seek) was a European initiative designed to compete with the Google search engine. It was announced in 2005 by Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, the political leaders of France and of Germany. As a research and development program, it had the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines). The European Commission approved the aid granted by France on 11 March 2008.

thumb|Seznam.cz headquarters in Prague thumb|Seznam.cz branch in Brno-Štýřice Seznam.cz (or Seznam, list in Czech) is a web portal and search engine in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1996 by Ivo Lukačovič in Prague as the first web portal in the Czech Republic. Seznam started with a search engine and an internet version of yellow pages. Today, Seznam runs almost 30 different web services and associated brands. Seznam had more than 6 million real users per month at the end of 2014. Among the most popular services, according to NetMonitor, are its homepage seznam.cz, email.cz, search.seznam.cz a

Open Text Corporation (styled as opentext) is a global software company that develops and sells information management software.

contextual queries

Picsearch was a Swedish company which developed and provided image search services for large websites. The image search services developed by Picsearch power several major Internet companies, such as Lycos. Other Picsearch customers include regional search portals in Germany, Turkey and an Arabic language portal. Customers outside the sphere of search portals included telecoms, entertainment sites, e-commerce, sport websites, yellow pages and communities. In January 2022, the official website was changed to declare "We had a great ride. R.I.P. Picsearch 2000 - 2022" and its usual service pages

RhythmOne , a subsidiary of Nexxen, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.

Mojeek ( ) is a UK-based search engine known for its focus on privacy and independence from other major search indexes. Established with a commitment to user privacy, Mojeek operates its own crawler-based index, setting it apart from search engines that rely on third-party search results, such as those from Google or Bing.

UCWeb Inc. (also known as UC Mobile) is a Chinese mobile Internet company that offers products and services that include mobile browser, UC News, and search engine services. Its flagship product, UC Browser, topped the Chinese, Indonesian and Indian markets in 2013.

Wikiwix is a web-based search engine that indexes and searches Wikipedia articles. It also provides a related archiving service that preserves snapshots of referenced web pages.

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prototype Internet search engine to comply with Chinese censorship requirements

Swisscows is a search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.

MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. It is based in Germany and is hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover.

defunct web search tool created by Apple

EXALEAD was a software company created in 2000 that provided search platforms and search-based applications (SBA) for consumer and business users. Headquartered in Paris, France, it was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2010 and integrated into subsidiary NETVIBES in 2022.

Ahmia is a clearnet search engine for Tor's onion services created by Juha Nurmi in 2014. Ahmia is accessible through both its clearweb website and its onion service version. It is one of the primary tools used by Tor users to discover and access onion websites.