General Search
This document provides a list of general search engines, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, as well as lesser-known options such as Ecosia and Mojeek. It also includes advanced search techniques, such as using operators like “cache:” and “filetype:” to refine search results.
Advangle: Advangle is a general search engine that provides users with a comprehensive web search experience.
Aol: Aol is a popular search engine that offers web search, news search, and other online services.
Ask: Ask is a search engine that allows users to ask questions in natural language and provides relevant search results.
Baidu: Baidu is a Chinese search engine that dominates the Chinese market. It offers various search services, including web search, image search, video search, and more, tailored to the needs of Chinese users.
Bing: Bing is a search engine developed by Microsoft. It provides web search, image search, video search, and other search services.
Brave: Brave is a private, independent, and transparent search engine focused on protecting user privacy and delivering unbiased search results.
DuckDuckGo: DuckDuckGo is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy. It does not track user activity or store personal information.
Ecosia: Ecosia is a search engine that uses its profits to plant trees. It focuses on sustainability and environmental impact by using its revenue to support tree-planting projects worldwide.
Gigablast: Gigablast provides large-scale, high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology and services for partner sites.
Goodsearch: Goodsearch is a search engine that allows users to find shopping deals online.
Google Search: Google Search is the most popular search engine, providing a wide range of search services, including web search, image search, news search, and more.
Instya: Instya is a general search engine that offers web search, image search, and other search services.
Impersonal.me: Impersonal.me is a search engine that focuses on delivering unbiased search results by not personalizing or tracking user data.
Lycos: Lycos is a search engine that provides web search, email, and other online services.
MetaGer: MetaGer is a privacy-focused search engine from Germany. It utilizes multiple sources, including its own web crawler, to provide search results while protecting user privacy by not storing any personal information.
Mojeek: Mojeek is an independent search engine that respects user privacy and aims to provide unbiased search results.
Naver: Naver is a South Korean search engine that provides search services, online content, and community-based features. It offers a wide range of services, including web search, news search, image search, and more.
Qwant: Qwant is a European search engine that prioritizes user privacy and data protection. It delivers search results from its own web index and does not track users or filter search results based on personal information.
Search.com: Search.com is a search engine that provides web search, news search, and other online services.
Startpage: Startpage is a search engine that emphasizes user privacy. It acts as an intermediary between users and other search engines, retrieving search results on behalf of the user while anonymizing their data.
SurfCanyon: SurfCanyon is a real-time contextual search technology that observes user behavior to disambiguate intent “on the fly” and automatically brings relevant results to the forefront.
Wolfram Alpha: Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Alpha. It provides expert-level answers using advanced algorithms, a vast knowledge base, and AI technology.
Yahoo! Search: Yahoo! Search is a search engine that offers web search, news search, and other online services.
Yandex: Yandex is a Russian search engine that provides search services, including web search, image search, and news search. It also offers other features such as maps, email, and cloud storage.
Advanced Online Searching
| Query | What it does |
|---|---|
| cache:[url] | Shows the version of the web page from the search engine’s cache. |
| related:[url] | Finds web pages that are similar to the specified web page. |
| info:[url] | |
| site:[url] | Finds pages only within a particular domain and all its subdomains. |
| intitle:[text] or allintitle:[text] | Finds pages that include a specific keyword as part of the indexed title tag. Note: You must include a space between the colon and the query for the operator to work in Bing. |
| Finds pages that include a specific keyword as part of their indexed URLs. | |
| Finds pages that contain the specific keyword in the meta tags. | |
| filetype:[file extension] | Searches for specific file types. |
| Searches text of the page. | |
| inanchor:[text] | Search link anchor text |
| Search for a specific region. | |
| contains:[text] | |
| altloc:[iso code] | Searches for location in addition to one specified by the language of the site (i.e., pt-us or en-us) |
| feed:[feed type, i.e. rss] | Find an RSS feed related to the search term |
| hasfeed:[url] | Finds webpages that contain both the term or terms for which you are querying and one or more RSS or Atom feeds. |
| ip:[ip address] | Find sites hosted by a specific IP address |
| language:[language code] | |
| book:[title] | Searches for book titles related to keywords |
| Searches for maps related to keywords | |
| linkfromdomain:[url] | Shows websites whose links are mentioned in the specified URL (with errors) |