Search Engines

A list of search engines for finding basically anything.

Country Specific Search Engines and Directories

Asia

Europe

North America

  • Canada

  • Greenland

    • Tidsskrifet Greenlandarrow-up-right The journal Greenland contains illustrated articles on Greenlandic and Arctic conditions and has been published by the Greenlandic Society since 1953. This database contains all 50 volumes 1953 to 2002.

  • Mexico

  • United States

    • Keep It Localarrow-up-right An easy and efficient search tool for locating web pages, autos and agricultural vehicles for sale and real estate by geographic location in the USA.

    • 50 Statesarrow-up-right A web directory with a category for each USA state featuring search engines, directories and other relevant links to the chosen state.

    • FedGatearrow-up-right A comprehensive web directory for US government information, department of defence, federal government, executive agencies, senate, white house, legislative branch and congress.

    • Ezilon USAarrow-up-right A North American search engine and website directory where users can search for and submit websites from the United States and Canada.

    • CityTownarrow-up-right A directory of official, city and town, government and chamber of commerce, websites. Everything is organized by state with references to similar collections and directories.

    • Baja Searcharrow-up-right Baja California search engine. Uses a Google CSE.

South America

  • Wolfram|Alphaarrow-up-right An online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer.

  • Million Shortarrow-up-right Million Short is an alternative search engine, which enables users to remove the first 100, 1k, 10k, 100k and 1 million of the most popular search results.

  • WorldWideSciencearrow-up-right A global gateway connecting users to both national and international scientific databases and portals.

  • Microsoft Academicarrow-up-right A free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies.

  • Keyword Toolarrow-up-right Keyword Tool is free online keyword research instrument that uses Google auto-complete to generate hundreds of relevant long-tail keywords for any topic.

  • 2lingualarrow-up-right A Google CSE that lets you search for pages in two languages.

  • Internet Movie Databasearrow-up-right IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos, video games, and streaming content. Including information about cast, production crew, personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, reviews and more.

  • fnd.ioarrow-up-right A search engine for the Apple app store and iTunes store.

  • There Is A Bot For Thatarrow-up-right A search engine that has over 5,000 bots for over 15 different platforms.

  • WikiIndexarrow-up-right An index of thousands of different wikis about virtually every subject.

  • Fagan Finderarrow-up-right One of the best metasearch tools there is. Allows you to search through search engines, social media, encyclopedias, libraries, news, government, documents and much more.

  • Exaleadarrow-up-right A high-end data discovery and search platform that powers search, data collection, and indexing among all technology solutions.

  • DogPilearrow-up-right A metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing, and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.

  • Advanglearrow-up-right Allows you to quickly build a query with multiple parameters (such as the 'domain', 'language' or 'date published') and immediately see the result of this query in Google or Bing search engines.

  • All in Onearrow-up-right A metasearch engine that combines all major search engines into one. They also allow you to create, configure and customize your own engine.

  • WebCrawlerarrow-up-right The oldest surviving search engine on the internet. It was the first search engine to provide full text searching.

  • YubNubarrow-up-right Yubnub gives you all the details about a website relevant to the business. This website is user-friendly and functions as a search engine. This allows developing and using commands linked to web pages and web services.

  • MyAllSearcharrow-up-right a multi metasearch engine that provides search results from a number of different search engines. MyAllSearch offers standard web searches, image searches, video searches, news searches and blog searches. Results are available from major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Bing & DuckDuckGo.

  • iZitoarrow-up-right Comines search results from Google, Bing, YouTube, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Entireweb and many more.

  • eToolsarrow-up-right Searches major Swiss and international search engines. Queried search engines include Ask, Base, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, ExaLead, Fastbot, FindX, Google, Mojeek, Moose, Qwant, Search, Tiger, Wikipedia, Yahoo! and Yandex.

  • Zapmetaarrow-up-right Essentially a clone of iZito.

  • I Search Fromarrow-up-right Simulate using Google Search from a different location or device, or perform a search with custom search settings.

  • U Search Fromarrow-up-right Simulate using Google Search from a different location or device or perform a search with custom search settings. It's useful for searching Google as if you were somewhere else.

  • ScrapersnBotsarrow-up-right A large collection of online tools for OSINT. Search for users with a specific name on different sites or a single domain. Google image search, YouTube tags, URL extractor and more.

  • BizNararrow-up-right A web search engine that returns high quality results by submitting your query to other search engines and collating, ranking and dropping duplicates in the results.

  • Valentin.apparrow-up-right An easy way to get localized search engine results pages [SERPs] at an exact location without any additional tools.

  • GNOD Searcharrow-up-right Search various engines at the same time and compare results. Very handy.

  • ListenNotesarrow-up-right Podcast search engine where you can search over 118 million episodes, create your own podcast playlist and cut interesting pieces.

  • grep.apparrow-up-right Search for strings across half a million git repos.

  • SearchCodearrow-up-right A great free source code search engine. Helps locate real world examples of functions, API's and libraries in 243 languages from over ten public code sources.

  • SourceGrapharrow-up-right A web-based code search and navigation tool. Indexes every open source repository with more than 1 star. Claims to have indexed over 1 million repositories and counting.

  • Source Code Search Enginearrow-up-right Find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages HTML, JS and CSS code.

  • Monsterarrow-up-right A global employment website where you can search through millions of job listings.

  • ZipRecruiterarrow-up-right Search millions of job listings by area.

  • Indeedarrow-up-right Launched in 2004, Indeed is a worldwide employment website for job listings.

  • Glassdoorarrow-up-right A website where current and former employees can anonymously review companies. Also allows users to anonymously submit and view salaries as well as search and apply for jobs on its platform.

  • OSINT Jobsarrow-up-right A constantly updated list of OSINT related jobs in many locations around the world.

  • Internet Archivearrow-up-right Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

  • Wayback Machinearrow-up-right A digital archive of the World Wide Web. Allows you to search and view historical versions of websites.

  • Archive.todayarrow-up-right An archive site which stores historical snapshots of web pages.

  • WebCitearrow-up-right WebCite is an on-demand archive site, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar cited or quoted from it.

  • Google Cachearrow-up-right Google takes a snapshot of each web page as a backup in case the current page isn't available. Simply enter the address you wish to search at the end of the URL. Example: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:<ENTER-URL-HERE>

  • Bing Cachearrow-up-right Bing also allows you to view cached webpages. Simply search url:www., click the small arrow next to the result, then click on "Cached".

  • MementoWeb Time Travelarrow-up-right Find Mementos in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, GitHub and many more.

  • The End of Term Archivearrow-up-right This archive contains snapshots of federal government websites (.gov, .mil, etc) in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the US government.

  • EU Web Archivearrow-up-right Contains the main websites of the EU institutions, which are hosted on the european .eu domain and subdomains. Its aim is to preserve EU web content in the long term and to keep it accessible for the public.

  • iToolsarrow-up-right iTools is not just a website repository, but it is also a website analyzer that provides you with specifics of the website like contact information, website traffic, Alexa rating, website reputation, data, etc.

  • Arquivoarrow-up-right A Portuguese web archive service that serves as a research infrastructure that enables search and access to files archived from the web since 1996.

  • TheOldNetarrow-up-right A service that lets users see how websites looked in the past.

  • Quick Cache and Archive Searcharrow-up-right An awesome tool created by @cyb_detectivearrow-up-right that lets you search for older versions of websites via search engines and various web archive services.

  • Archive Portal Europearrow-up-right Search through online archives from across Europe. Search for names, companies, geographical locations and more.

  • RaidForums Archivearrow-up-right An archive of the old RaidForums site. Data was scraped from both Google cache and the Wayback Machine.

  • CachedViewarrow-up-right Simply enter a URL and view the site via Google cache.

  • CachedPagesarrow-up-right Enter any URL and view archived and cached versions of the webpage.

  • Internet Archive Vintage Software Collectionarrow-up-right The Vintage Software collection gathers various efforts by groups to classify, preserve, and provide historical software. These older programs, many of them running on defunct and rare hardware, are provided for purposes of study, education, and historical reference.

  • OldVersionarrow-up-right A large archive that provides free software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers and games.

  • WinWorldPCarrow-up-right A free online museum and archive dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. Offers information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems.

  • RetroArchivearrow-up-right This site was created as a logical extension to the original Commercial CP/M Software Archive. The focus has been expanded to encompass all types of "classic" computer systems and their software, not just CP/M.

  • The Higher Intellect Software Archivearrow-up-right A collection of applications, games, utilities and operating systems for older computer systems. The files available here are part of a larger collection accessible using Hotline/KDXarrow-up-right (Waybackarrow-up-right), (archive.todayarrow-up-right) and connecting to hl.preterhuman.net. Focuses mostly on software from the 1980s/1990s for Macintosh and Windows/DOS platforms.

  • Macintosh Repositoryarrow-up-right An archive and sanctuary for old software from the classic MacOS era.

  • DOS Games Archivearrow-up-right Currently has 1,135 DOS games in the archive that can be downloaded for free. These games are shareware, freeware, playable demos and full versions which are released as freeware or into the public domain.

  • Atari Archivesarrow-up-right Offers books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available for download. Everything here is available with permission of the copyright holders.

  • CP/M Software Archivearrow-up-right A humongous collection of the great CP/M repositories past and present.

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