Google is practically synonymous with the word “search engine” but did you know that there are many other search engines you could use as well? Below, I’ve listed every popular search engine on the Internet.

The Big List Of All Search Engines (183)

1. Abbreviations for abbreviations
2. ABC Search engine – every search starts with ABC
3. About for guidance, not guesswork
4. Academic Search. It’s from Microsoft, so it’s got to be great. Hasn’t it?
5. Acronym finder – for over 750,000 human edited definitions
6. Addictomatic Great for quick results in a modular format. I like it, except the stupid logo!
7. Alexa is good for finding information on the top 100k sites
8. Answers is the world’s leading Q&A site
9. AOL Search no, I didn’t think it was still going, but it is
10. Around People Finder. UK, US, Australia, Europe emphasised.
11. Ask (Jeeves) still limping along, shadow of its former self
12. Ask if you want the US/global version
13. Azoos is the brightest yellow search engine out there
14. Bananaslug Run a search and include a random word, just to see what you get!
15. BASE for academic search. 56 million+ documents
16. BBC Video Nation, with categories, features and local information
17. Behold for flickr images
18. Be Nosey – search like it’s 1999!
19. Betterwhois gets you good accurate information on domains
20. Bing. Microsoft’s faint Google lookalike.
21. Binpad for category search
22. Biographies.net is an excellent source to identify biographical information.
23. Blindsearch to compare results of major engines
24. Blinkx is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it!
25. Blippex is for private searching. They don’t track you.
26. Buzzsumo for social media search
27. Carrot2 is a clustering engine – great for focussing on a subject area you’re not sure of
28. ChaCha allows you get other people to help with your search
29. Clipblast searches for videos for you. Not personally stunned by it.
30. Cluuz A visual search engine
31. Country search engines is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries
32. Creative Common search. Great for finding stuff you’re allowed to use. Worth using!
33. CriticalPast for vintage stock footage and royalty free material.
34. DailyEarth US newspaper emphasis.
35. Dailymotion for videos – emphasis on UK based content
36. Daybees the worlds largest events search engine, so they say.
37. Definitions is good for thousands of definitions
38. Deepdyve for deep web searching
39. Digital Librarian; a librarian’s choice of the best of the web
40. DMOZ for a hierarchical directory, old but still good
41. Dogpile for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB)
42. DRAGNET Search free legal databases provided by New York Law School
43. Draze to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing
44. DuckDuckGo is a family safe engine
45. Eatbydate tells you if food is safe to eat. This engine could save your life! Maybe.
46. Ehow searches for crafty type material and ‘how to’ stuff. Random and interesting
47. Entireweb is a freetext search engine
48. Exalead is an excellent alternative to Google
49. Excite is there, but does anyone use it any more?
50. FaganFinder is a superb collection of search resources
51. Fefoo multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines
52. Findanyfilm available in the UK in any format
53. FindSounds for sound effects
54. Galaxy is a directory based search engine
55. Gigablast is a good second string search engine. Worth trying.
56. Goofram for Google and Wolfram Alpha
57. Google doesn’t need any words from me
58. Great PDF search engine – does exactly that – PDF search
59. Gwittr for searching twitter accounts
60. hashtagify.me This is a nice little search feature for hashtags on Twitter.
61. Hshtags A social media search engine dedicated to hashtags
62. Headlinespot News like it’s 1999!
63. Heapr for Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia
64. Hotbot is a blast from the past and that’s about all
65. iBoogie is a clustering meta search engine
66. Icerocket has RSS feed options and is a good alternative
67. IMDB the Internet movie database for movies, tv, actors, showtimes. Invaluable
68. Info Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, all in one place.
69. Infonary Very sparse. Not a top choice for me.
70. Info Service is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though
71. Internet Archive to see all those old pages!
72. Iseek is a clustering search engine; very good too
73. Ixquick is an excellent metasearch engine
74. Izito Combines ‘all’ search engines. Err, no, it doesn’t.
75. Junoba for site search and twitter search combined
76. Jurn is a curated academic search engine indexing 4.5k free ejournals in the arts
77. Kedrix Why search when you can mearch? Don’t ask me, I just find this stuff.
78. KidsClick is websearch for children by librarians
79. KidRex is another children’s safe search engine
80. Kngine styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine
81. Knowem? Search over 550 social networks for brand and user names
82. Lanyrd Need to find a conference, event or speaker? This’ll help out
83. Librarians’ Internet Index is a brilliant resource
84. LocateTV find shows, actors and movies
85. Lyrics is a great search engine to find those song lyrics. V. Good.
86. Lycos is still out there, but getting old and creaky
87. Macroglossa Visual search engine Upload image, see what it finds
88. Mahalo for social search, human created information resources
89. Mamma is the mother of all meta search engines
90. Millionshort all the results, except the top million or so. Interesting take on search.
91. Mojeek ‘No tracking, just search’ in case you’re worried about being spied on.
92. Monstercrawler for a GYAB search
93. Motherpipe – no tracking, no cookies, just search
94. Mundusearch for web, sounds, lyrics, music and video
95. MyAllSearch You can choose from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask (Jeeves), Yandex, Lycos, Metacrawler, Entireweb and DuckDuckGo.
96. Newseum 772 front pages from 80+ countries.
97. Newslookup Latest news headlines, emphasis on US but also global content
98. Newsmap Great tool; news arranged by colour and size. Try it!
99. NewsNow Emphasis on the UK news.
100. OmniMedicalSearch is a top notch medical search engine
101. Opening TV Themes. Yes, it is real. Yes, you will lose hours of your life happily humming
102. Panabee for comparing results from different search engines
103. Pepesearch for freetext and directory search. Not impressed
104. Phrases.net for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms
105. Pipl People finder. Good as the rest, which means not any better.
106. Poetry.net is a huge collection of poems and a community for amateur poets as well.
107. PolyMeta is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine
108. PublicRadioFan for searching for radio stations.
109. Qrobe for Google, Yahoo/Bing and Ask
110. Questfinder is a selective web directory
111. Quixey Want apps? This has apps in abundance!
112. Quotes.net for famous and not so famous quotations
113. Quintura for visual search in a word/tag cloud for children.
114. RealMoneyPoker offers an online Texas Hold’em legality search engine
115. Redz for visual search – an arch of webpage thumbnails
116. References is a good source of reference resources
117. Re-QUEST is a directory based engine
118. Rhymes.net is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as well.
119. RocketNews Bit of a dud – very repetition, but global
120. ScienceHack for science videos verified by ‘a scientist’
121. Scour to search socially, see community votes and comments
122. Searchbug for people and company search in the US
123. Search is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it
124. Searchboth lets you compare results for 9 different engines
125. Searchbots is a ‘build your own’ resource
126. Searchdazzle puts 4 engines on one page. Messy!
127. Searchthenet is a multisearch engine – 20 engines offered
128. SearchtheWeb is a directory engine which fails to impress
129. Sency for real time, what’s happening this moment information
130. Similar-site finds similar sites to that which you provide
131. Similarsites finds similar sites to that which you provide
132. Siteslike is a find similar sites engine
133. Slide3 is a slide search engine searching more than 8 million slides
134. SlideFinder searches for Powerpoint presentations
135. Slider is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ
136. SmartLinks provides quick links in a directory structure
137. Smashfuse for social media search
138. SnapBird for Twitter searching
139. Socialmention* A king of real time social media search and analysis
140. Soovle for Google, Wikipedia, Answers, YouTube, Ask, Yahoo, Amazon
141. Soundclips for uh.. clips of y’know, sounds and stuff.
142. SoundJax for clips of sounds. Loads of sounds.
143. Soungle for even more sounds.
144. Spacetime 3D looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine
145. Spezify for multisearch visual results
146. Sputtr – lots of tiles for multi searching.
147. Startpage – a sister page of Ixquick
148. Stilltasty is a food date/edibility search engine
149. Surfcanyon is a general engine
150. Sunsteam is a directory engine, now 10 years old
151. Sweetsearch evaluated sources designed for students
152. Symbols is about signs, flags, glyphs, excellent arrangement, top resource
153. Synonyms net is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource
154. TeacherTube for safe and education YouTube videos
155. TellyAds has over 17K recent tv ads available to search.
156. The Net 1 is a directory engine
157. The Paperboy Front pages of newspapers. Great for news freaks.
158. TopSite Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject
159. Topsy Want tweets? They have 425 billion of them. The place to go to search Twitter
160. Trovando – first class multi search engine, though some choices are very outdated now.
161. True Knowledge “is a pioneer in a new class of search technology that allows you to ask questions on the web, just as if you were talking to
162. Turboscout is an excellent multi search engine
163. USZip provides excellent factual information on US zip code locations.
164. Vimeo is another YouTube lookalike video search engine
165. Wayback machine to go way back to 1996 for examples of archived pages. Invaluable
166. WbSrch Web Search is an independent search engine
167. WebCrawler is a meta engine for GYAB
168. Web-Search is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources
169. Whostalkin Who is talking, not stalking. Though as its a social media engine, who knows?
170. Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine; good but different!
171. Worldcat find 2 billion items in libraries near you. (Near being a relative term)
172. Worldnews News from around the world. Fancy that.
173. WWW Virtual Library for directory listing of virtual libraries
174. Yabigo searches Yahoo, Bing and Google
175. Yahoo needs no introduction either
176. Yandex is Russian based, but don’t let that put you off, it’s a good alternative to Google
177. Yippy is ‘family friendly’ which means badly censored to the point of being actively unhelpful.
178. Yometa takes the results from Google, Yahoo and Bing and displays them in a Venn diagram
179. YouTube is for videos, but you knew that already
180. Zakta is a personalised search engine resource
181. Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web.
182. Zapmeta searches all the major engines
183. Zeekly for private searching. Nothing kept or stored, including IP addresses
184. 48ers Real time social search.