Explore 61 Alternative Search Engines You Should Know. If someone asks you, off the top of your head, what search engines you use or know off, chances are you’ll be naming the regulars: Google, Bing, Yahoo. The Internet, however, is a really big place and there are plenty more search engines out there that can cater to very specific requirements.
General Search Engines
We’re skipping the search engines that everyone knows about so you won’t be seeing Google, Yahoo or Bing in this list. Here are many other alternative search engines available out there.
1) Aol
Aol offers search results combined with content from AOL. It allows searching for web pages, images & videos, news, tools and more and also offers filter options.
2) Yandex
Yandex is a Russian service provider offering the search engine, mail, maps and more. Its search service allows searching for images, videos and more.
3) ScrubTheWeb
ScrubTheWeb delivers organic search results and allows searching for web pages available in their member’s list only.
4) Ecoasia
Ecosia is a web search engine, which donates 80% of its surplus income to plant trees. It lets you search for web, images, news, videos and more.
5) MyWebSearch
MyWebSearch is the search engine that shows results from Google. It lets you search for web, images & videos, news, shopping products, maps and more.
6) Teoma
Teoma is an Internet search engine with its own link popularity algorithm. It lets people search for web, images & videos, news, recipes and more.
7) InfoSpace
InfoSpace offers white-label search and monetization solutions. Its combined search engine lets you find web pages, images & videos, and news.
8) Giga Blast
Giga Blast indexes billions of pages and provides quick, latest information. It lets you search only for web pages, but with filters for enhanced search results.
Regional Search Engines
9) Baidu
Baidu is China’s search engine for searching websites, news, maps, images, and audio & video files. It also shows definitions and allows making searches using images.
10) Naver
Naver is the South Korea’s first web portal that allows searching for web, definitions, images, news, articles, videos and more apart from providing other web services.
11) Goo
Goo is an Internet search engine and web portal of Japan, which crawls primarily Japanese sites and allows searching for the web, images, blogs, maps and even definitions.
12) Rambler
Rambler is a Russian web portal offering services like the search engine, email, news portal, finance portal, etc. It lets users search for web and images, and offers filter options.
13) Seznam
Seznam is a web portal and search engine of Czech Republic. It allows anyone to look for web pages, maps, photos & videos, definitions, products and more.
14) SAPO
Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses is a Portuguese service provider. It offers a search engine that allows searching for web, images & videos, news, and blogs.
15) Virgilio
Virgilio is an Italian web portal and search engine that lets anyone search for web pages, images & videos, companies and maps.
16) Walla
Walla is an Israeli web portal, providing news, search and email services. It allows searching for the web, photos, jobs, shopping products and more.
17) Diri
Diri is a Bulgarian web portal and provides search, news, and more services. It allows searching for web, definitions, flights, blogs, music, videos and more.
18) Search
Search is a search engine and web portal of Switzerland providing weather, maps, cinema and more services. It only allows searching for web pages.
19) Najdi
Najdi is a search engine built for the Republic of Macedonia. Unlike most search engines, it does not crawl the sites for their content and instead uses RSS or other XML sources.
20) Search Nigeria
Search Nigeria is a web-based portal and search engine. It lets people search the web pages, images & videos, news, blogs and more.
21) Das Oertliche
Das Oertliche is a German web portal and local directory, which allows its users to search for public locations using phone numbers, names or streets.
Social Media Search Engines
22) Social Mention
Search for social media mentions and understand social trends.
23) IceRocket
Search blogs and social networks.
24) Websta
Search Instagram for Instagram tags, user accounts, boards and more.
25) SocialSeeking
Search across various social networks and media channels like Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, etc.
26) Social Searcher
Search for public information from networks like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and more.
27) Pixnet
An online mobile photo sharing and networking service. Provides search for publicly available information including web posts, images and more.
Image & Icon Search Engines
28) IconFinder
A repository and search engine for free and premium icons.
29) TinyEye
A reverse image search engine that allows people to search images using images.
30) PicSearch
Search for images on the Web
61 Alternative Search Engines You Should Know
31) Twicsy
A search engine for Twitter pictures
32) Spezify
Search for images from social networks like Instagram, Facebook and others.
Knowledge Search Engines
33) Ask
Ask is a question-answer community cum search engine that allows searching for web, images, videos and news. You can also ask questions for getting quick answers.
34) eHow
eHow is one of the oldest question & answer websites that allows people to search for almost any topic – from home decor to food and from finance to legal.
35) Answers
Answers is a question-answer engine and community that lets people search for answers. You can directly ask questions and the sites answer them accurately.
36) Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge and search engine that searches for answers to factual questions finds images, solves calculations and does much more.
37) ChaCha
ChaCha is a human-guided search engine. It provides free, real-time answers to any question through its website. It also posts galleries and quizzes online.
38) Quora
A ask and answer site to find advice and insights by real people about real-life experiences.
Private Search Engines
39) DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that emphasizes on protecting searchers’ privacy and allows searching for web, images & videos, definitions, and stocks.
40) Qwant
Qwant is a France-based anonymous web search engine. It claims not to track its users while providing search for web, news, images & videos and more.
41) StartPage
Startpage is a Google-powered yet secure and privacy-respecting search engine. It lets people search for web pages, images & videos and more.
Search Engines to Search for People
42) Spokeo
Spokeo aggregates data from online and offline sources and allows searching using a name, email, phone number, username or address.
43) Pipl
Pipl finds info about people that cannot be found on regular search engines by name, username, phone number and email.
44) PeekYou
PeekYou indexes people from various social networks by name, email, phone, address, location and more.
45) Vebidoo
Vebidoo indexes publicly accessible information about people and lets you search them using the name, location and more.
46) SpySee
A next-generation people search engine geared towards social networks.
Other Search Engines
47) DMOZ
DMOZ is a multilingual open directory of the Internet. It uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings and lets you search for websites.
48) Food Blog Search
Food Blog Search is a food recipe search engine powered by Google Custom Search. It lets you find recipes from 1000+ blogs and sites across the web.
49) Swoogle
Swoogle is a search engine for semantic web ontologies, documents, terms and data published on the Internet. It’s not a regular search engine, unlike others.
50) SimilarSiteSearch
SimilarSiteSearch helps you find similar, related or alternative websites.
51) Shodan
Shodan is a search engine that lets users find devices(computers, routers, servers, etc.) connected to the Internet. It collects data mostly from public web servers.
52) Blackle
Blackle is powered by Google Custom Search and aims to save energy by displaying a black background. It allows users to search for web pages and images.
53) Blinkx
Blinkx is a web media platform with an index of over 35 million hours of videos. It allows people to browse videos using sections and search for videos.
54) NerdyData
NerdyData is a geek’s search engine that allows programming enthusiasts search for technologies, languages, libraries and much more.
55) SearchCode
SearchCode is a source code and documentation search engine, providing programmers the ability to search for functions or code snippets.
56) Polyvore
Polyvore is a community-powered social commerce website, allowing you to discover and search for latest trends in fashion and beauty.
57) Yummly
Yummly is a repository and search engine for foodies. It lets people search and explore food recipes – available in various categories (even seasonal).
58) Pronto
Pronto is a price comparison and product finding service that allows anyone search for products across large range of retailers and stores.
59) Discounto
Discounto allows its users to search and acquire discounts and offers from various retailers and local shopkeepers. It also informs of latest and awaited offers for popular items.
60) OneLook
OneLook is a search engine for words and phrases. It lets you search for words or meanings in 1000+ dictionaries and is even capable of making reverse lookups.
61) GoodSearch
GoodSearch is an online shopping site with a search engine that helps you find deals and coupons in major retailers. It donates part of the purchase price of items you find and buy on GoodSearch.
