Search engines which provide specialised search results.
Subcategories 27
Related categories 2
Sites 51
- Wolfram|Alpha Computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly.
- SearchIRC Search Internet Relay Chat rooms and networks.
- ZoomInfo A business information search engine, providing company search, people search and job search. It constructs profiles on people and companies, drawn from the Web, or created by individuals and companies for themselves.
- Creative Commons Search Powered by Nutch, it searches for content which can be re-used (for some uses) without having to pay or ask permission.
- IFAC net Global accountancy search engine, provides industry articles, guidelines and management tools.
- Green Maven Green Search Engine which provides environmentally aware results, includes news and products.
- The Internet Spec List Search engine for Request For Comments (RFC). Also organized according to topic.
- Spokeo People Search Finds personal photos, videos, and other information across social media platforms.
- Lullar Searches for profiles on social networking sites by e-mail, first, last name and username.
- ZabaSearch Free people search, for U.S. postal addresses and telephone numbers.
- PeekYou Searches for names and usernames across a variety of social networking sites and even among Wikipedia editors, registers users of SourceForge, Launchpad and My Opera. Searching can be refined by location and age.
- sengine.info Searches sites by domain name, title, keywords and IP address.
- Social Search Search for someone's status and shares on Facebook, Twitter & Google Buzz.
- Zanran A search engine for finding data and statistics. The search results will be graphs, charts and tables.
- Similar Site Search Helps to find similar, related, or alternative websites. Based on user generated tags.
- Clusterpat.com Search engine for US and European patents. Results from several sources are merged in a single list or in clusters. Order by relevance or date.
- SkillPages SkillPages is creating new opportunities for everyone everywhere.
- Taggl Searches various applications, including del.icio.us, flickr, Scribd, YouTube, for tags.
- Stylig Collaborative fashion content search engine, indexes selected fashion blogs and online magazines.
- RSSsearchhub Search for RSS, Rdf and Atom feeds or search the feeds.
- SHODAN Search for computers based on software, geography, operating system, IP address. For example, it can find servers running Apache 2.2.3 on Windows 2000 in Switzerland.
- Dooblet Find the alternatives to a broad range of subjects.
- Crwlr.net Finds active web servers and receives whatever information those servers disclose. Some of the features require free registration.
- Yummly Search for recipes by ingredient, diet, allergy, nutrition, taste, calories, fat, price, cuisine, time, course and source.
- Google minus Google Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.
- NiSearch Finds documents in .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .rtf and html format. Requires registration.
- Triplify What's on guide for travelers, including festivals, sports and events.
- Stinky Teddy Combines results from several sources to present the latest user-generated content. Its "buzz-o-meter" measures the current level of activity concerning the topic on Twitter.
- Panjoy Searches for recipes by ingredients, title, celebrity chefs.
- Jumobi Searches for mobile-friendly websites by keyword or category.
- SeeSources.com A service to check papers for passages plagiarized from the web.
- VideoStep Indexes video files that can be embedded and makes them available to publishers and website owners.
- Search[code] A code specific search engine. API documentation, code snippets and open-source repositories are indexed and searchable.
- GrantVine Searchable grants database and assistance programs for individuals.
- ColorOf A color search engine meant to find items in defined colors.
- Online Webpage Image Downloader and ImageInfo Grabber Grabs and lists image content and information from websites with filtering options. It also offers downloading of grabbed images and social network sharing of grabbed images.
- Sysoon Dead people search engine. Search by name, year or social security number (reverse lookup).
- SimilarSites Finds alternatives to popular websites.
- Ecofreek Searches the web for free and 'for swap/trade' items people no longer need.
- Social Searcher Facebook search without logging in. Finds images, pages, posts by keywords.
- AlternativeTo Alternatives to software applications are organized into categories and can also be searched according to platforms and tags.
- Similar Pages A search engine for finding similar and alternatives websites. Works on a dataset of about 200 million sites.
- Lionseek A search engine that scans the 'for sale' sections of online forums and organizes the data to make the search experience more efficient.
- Globalogiq HTML Code Search Engine Searches within HTML source code and http headers. Free demo requires registration.
- Quicko Presents a search results page from which relevant results can easily be selected then browsed sequentially without opening new tabs or windows.
- TopicDash Tracks the latest popular content on the web: Facebook, Twitter etc.
- Sites Like Search Helps to find similar or alternative websites.
- Similarkind Helps users find new alternatives or similar content.
- Veromi Offers services that include general people searches, criminal background checks, real property, death and marriage.
- Peoplefinder.com Allows users to perform free white page type searches as well as reverse address, phone and area code lookups.
- Search IM Offers search for users of Skype, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk and MSN messenger by their hobbies, work/profession, interests and anything else they include in their 'about me' pages.