Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines: Specialized
See also: This category in other languages: - A search engine for alternatives, meaning it can search for existing opposites on any given subject. - Alternatives to software applications are organized into categories and can also be searched according to platforms and tags. - 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. - A color search engine meant to find items in defined colors. - Powered by Nutch, it searches for content which can be re-used (for some uses) without having to pay or ask permission. - Finds active web servers and receives whatever information those servers disclose. Some of the features require free registration. - Find the alternatives to a broad range of subjects. - A product information database searchable by the UPC or EAN that appears in the barcode of a product. Pictures, details, specifications. - Searches for documents in .pdf, .doc. .ppt. .xls .rtf format. Uses results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing. - Searches the web for free and 'for swap/trade' items people no longer need. - The latest comments on any topic such as people, events, ideas, categorized by various criteria. Registered users can add topics and comments. - A "how-to" search engine for finding answers to common questions. - Results form Google are enhanced with thumbnails, opinions and ratings from users and a large number of sites organized into a directory called channels. - Search for subtitles based on the file name or the release name. - Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube. - Searchable grants database and assistance programs for individuals. - Green Search Engine which provides environmentally aware results, includes news and products. - Designed to find files of a wide range of formats. - Global accountancy search engine, provides industry articles, guidelines and management tools. - RSS feeds search engine indexing blogs posts, news sites stories, audio and video podcast in 33 languages. - Searches for mobile-friendly websites by keyword or category. - A real-time search engine for Facebook and Twitter. - Searches for profiles on social networking sites by e-mail, first, last name and username. - Finds documents in .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .rtf and html format. Requires registration. - 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. - Provides images of result sites instead of text snippets. - Searches for recipes by ingredients, title, celebrity chefs. - 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. - Searches the web for FAQs, automatically extracting questions and ranking the answers to facilitate finding the relevant piece of information. - Search for RSS, Rdf and Atom feeds or search the feeds. - Customer reviews organized into categories, searchable, too. - A search engine to find mobile friendly websites. - Provides access to the Roysearch Knowledge Base of over 10 million concepts and 25 million semantic relations. Demonstrates how the knowledge base can be used for search refinement. - Search for computers based on software, geography, operating system, IP address and more. For example, it can find servers running Apache 2.2.3 on Windows 2000 in Switzerland. - Search Internet Relay Chat rooms and networks. - A code specific search engine. API documentation, code snippets and open-source repositories are indexed and searchable. - A service to check papers for passages plagiarized from the web. - Helps to find similar, related, or alternative websites. Based on user generated tags. - Helps to find similar, related, or alternative websites. Based on user generated tags. - Finds alternatives to popular websites. - Provides a sizeable database of jobs, collates material from several businesses. - SkillPages is creating new opportunities for everyone everywhere. - Search engine for finding PowerPoint presentations and slides. The results include previews. The interface is available in several languages. - Search for someone's status and shares on Facebook, Twitter & Google Buzz. - Facebook search without logging in. Finds images, pages, posts by keywords. - 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. - Collaborative fashion content search engine, indexes selected fashion blogs and online magazines. - Dead people search engine. Search by name, year or social security number (reverse lookup). - Searches various applications, including del.icio.us, flickr, Scribd, YouTube, for tags. - Search engine for Request For Comments (RFC). Also organized according to topic. - Results are what users have shared the most on Facebook, Twitter or Google+. - Searches content published on Twitter and the web, sorted by relevance or date. - Searches for words on social media sites and shows the most searched for words. - Vertical search engine with many categories and a directory of the searched sites. - Indexes video files that can be embedded and makes them available to publishers and website owners. - Computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly. - Search for recipes by ingredient, diet, allergy, nutrition, taste, calories, fat, price, cuisine, time, course and source. - A search engine for finding data and statistics. The search results will be graphs, charts and tables. - 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. - Searches sites by domain name, title, keywords and IP address.
