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

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

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

ScrubTheWeb delivers organic search results and allows searching for web pages available in their member’s list only.

4) Ecoasia

Ecosia

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

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

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

InfoSpace offers white-label search and monetization solutions. Its combined search engine lets you find web pages, images & videos, and news.

8) Giga Blast

GigaBlast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virgilio is an Italian web portal and search engine that lets anyone search for web pages, images & videos, companies and maps.

16) Walla

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Mention

Search for social media mentions and understand social trends.

23) IceRocket

IceRocket

Search blogs and social networks.

24) Websta

Websta

Search Instagram for Instagram tags, user accounts, boards and more.

25) SocialSeeking

Social Seeking

Search across various social networks and media channels like Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, etc.

26) Social Searcher

Social Searcher

Search for public information from networks like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and more.

27) Pixnet

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

Icon Finder

A repository and search engine for free and premium icons.

29) TinyEye

Tiny Eye

A reverse image search engine that allows people to search images using images.

30) PicSearch

Pic Search

Search for images on the Web

61 Alternative Search Engines You Should Know

31) Twicsy

Twiscy

A search engine for Twitter pictures

32) Spezify

Spezify

Search for images from social networks like Instagram, Facebook and others.

Knowledge Search Engines

33) Ask

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

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

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

Wolframe 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

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

Quora

A ask and answer site to find advice and insights by real people about real-life experiences.

Private Search Engines

39) DuckDuckGo

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

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

Start Page

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

Spokeo aggregates data from online and offline sources and allows searching using a name, email, phone number, username or address.

43) Pipl

Pipl

Pipl finds info about people that cannot be found on regular search engines by name, username, phone number and email.

44) PeekYou

PeekYou

PeekYou indexes people from various social networks by name, email, phone, address, location and more.

45) Vebidoo

Vebidoo

Vebidoo indexes publicly accessible information about people and lets you search them using the name, location and more.

46) SpySee

SpySee

A next-generation people search engine geared towards social networks.

Other Search Engines

47) DMOZ

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

FoodBlogSearch

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

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

Similar Site Search

SimilarSiteSearch helps you find similar, related or alternative websites.

51) Shodan

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

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

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

NerdyData is a geek’s search engine that allows programming enthusiasts search for technologies, languages, libraries and much more.

55) SearchCode

Search Code

SearchCode is a source code and documentation search engine, providing programmers the ability to search for functions or code snippets.

56) Polyvore

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

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

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

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

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

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.