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• All of Craigs  - Web search tool specially created to deeply search through Craigslist postings. Firefox and Chrome extensions available.
• All Things Now  - Allows users to search for the most popularly or most shared content online.
• Brupt  - Allows users to search Google for .doc, .ppt, .xls, and .pdf documents.
• Chemical Book  - Chemical search engine and directory. Also presents buying leads and recommended enterprises.
• Collecta  - Monitors news sites, social media, blogs, and Flickr to provide real time search results.
• Comcast Search  - Web search tool explores the Internet for videos, images, yellow pages, news, and shopping resources.
• Creative Commons Search  - Specifically searches for files and content online that can be freely used, shared, and reproduced.
• DeweyDigger  - Search exploration based on the Dewey Decimal System using images and cloud tag of terminologies.
• Duck Duck Go  - Specialized search engine that delivers "zero click info" as well as results from Wikipedia, and other related links.
• Eurekster Swicki  - Search engine designed to learn automatically from a community's search behavior.
• Ezanga.com  - Makes web searching easy, offers domain services, with member contests and giveaways.
• Filler Item Finder  - Searches for low priced Amazon items to add to an order that needs to reach a certain minimum amount to qualify for free Amazon shipping or other perks.
• FindArticles.com  - Search for articles in the news, magazines, and educational sources.
• FindSounds.com  - Search the Internet for sound effects and musical instrument samples.
• FindTheBest.com  - Comparison engine of global information custom with filters.
• Fragrantica  - Perfume and cologne search service and online community.
• GameCurry  - Crawls a variety of online gaming sites and indexes Flash-based games. Returns thumbnails of the games (where available) and allows users to rate the game.
• GoodSearch  - Search engine which donates 50% of its revenue to charities and schools designated by search users. Also donates revenues from its online shopping mall.
• Green Maven  - Specialized search for green and sustainable websites.
• Greplin  - Personal search engine. Provides a convenient way for finding or keeping track of all online information a user creates through different accounts or web services.
• Helioid  - Refine searches and narrow the results for a more productive search/and find.
• Hunch  - Searches that supply users with computer-generated answers.
• I'm Halal  - Offers web, image, news, and Qur'an search and returns results deemed to be safe for those of the Muslim faith.
• Indeed  - Job search service explores the Internet for job postings by job title, keywords, company name, and location.
• Instant People Finder  - Provides a real time people finder search engine for friends, classmates, lost loves, or colleagues. Locates people by name and location.
• iSearch  - People search engine. Search for people by matching a name and either a phone number, email, or screen name.
• Jinni  - Serves as a movie and TV "taste engine." Provides search results based on a user's preferences.
• King of Search  - Search using Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK and more.
• Krugle  - Open source codes, projects, and technical pages search engine.
• Like.com  - Visual search engine and shopping tool locates items by appearance. Features a "likeness technology.".
• LinkUp Job Search Engine  - Helps expose hidden jobs. Only lists jobs taken directly from company websites for productive results.
• Lookup  - Free people search engine providing photos, phone numbers, email addresses, and digital profiles.
• Mahalo  - Human-powered search engine offering organized, comprehensive, and spam-free search results for popular keywords.
• Mugurdy  - Search engine offering results in thumbnails for easy viewing, with descriptions displayed to make searching a breeze.
• MyLife: People Search  - Provides search for friends, classmates, lost loves or colleagues by finding them through our people search engine.
• PawnSearcher  - Online service for finding pawn shops in different parts of the United States. Helps collectors and bargain hunters in looking for the best deals for jewelry, electronic products, tools, diamonds, guns, and collectible items.
• PDF Search Engine  - Search for PDF's all across the web.
• Pdfgeni.com  - Search tool specially designed for finding ebooks, document templates, reports, data sheets, articles, papers, and other documents in PDF.
• PeopleBounty  - People search engine offering a simplified but comprehensive online background check.
• PeopleSmart  - Provides articles and resourceful tools and tips for finding information about people.
• Picitup  - Image search which allows filtering by similar color, size, category, shape, and layout. Also offers "celebrity match up" which allows the user to upload a photo of themselves and search for celebrities that look similar.
• Pipl  - Comprehensive people search engine. Locates subject by name and location.
• Quixey  - Apps search engine finds useful applications for Windows, Android, iOS, and other platforms or operating systems.
• Rank Speed  - Specialized search engine locates websites and products based on user or customer sentiments.
• ripple  - Google Custom Search powered engine donating a portion of all ad revenues to charity.
• Riya  - Visual search system refines image search results by color, shape, and texture.
• Rollyo  - Customizable search engine allows users to search through the contents of a list of specified websites.
• SaveItt  - Specialized search engine for findnig books, PDFs, documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files.
• Search[co.de]  - Specialized search engine that focuses on finding programming codes and snippets.
• Search-ebooks  - Cataloged search of ebooks, pdf's, doc's, ppt's, rtf's, and xls documents.
• SearchIRC  - Complete and up to date IRC search engine monitoring over 4000 IRC networks for channels and users.
• SearchKindly  - Search engine which donates 100% of its advertising revenue to charity. Offers copies of canceled donation checks, and HTML code to include search box on any website.
• Serchilo  - Serves as an interface for using multiple search engines or for searching specific websites.
• Similar Site Search  - Specialized search designed to help find similar sites, and alternative web sites.
• Social Mention  - Real-time search and analysis tool focusing on social media content. Also offers a buzz widget and social media alerts.
• Spezify  - Searches displayed in a mix of all media types in order to generate extensive and diverse search results.
• Spffy  - Specialized search engine created for finding royalty-free, rights-managed, and news or archival photos and videos.
• Spokeo  - Search engine focused on organizing people-related information from public sources including the white pages.
• Sprixi  - Allows users to search for images which have Creative Commons licenses or are in the public domain. Includes ability to easily credit the original artist.
• Sweet Search  - Students get better search results with input from targeted sources. Includes the Smithsonian, PBS, universities, and the Library of Congress.
• Time Explorer  - Indexes articles that discuss and predict things that may happen in the future, as well as things that have happened in the past and present.
• Topsy  - Realtime search for social generated content. Find the most influential conversations, most discussed topics, and the most relevant content based on unique algorithms.
• Tweetzi  - Real-time Twitter search service designed to surface useful information.
• Twerq  - Provides a tabbed search experience. Users enter the search term and results from Google, Yahoo, Windows and video sites are provided in their respected tabs.
• Vast.com  - Web classifieds search engine. Crawls the web for listings of real estate, rentals, jobs, tickets, services, and more.
• Viewzi  - View search results in a variety of different views, including text, screen shots, site information, news, time lines, and Amazon books.
• Voobys  - Search for videos, images, and music in this search portal.
• Wikiwix  - Search engine focusing on Wikipedia articles. Searches for Wikipedia content as well as other related sites associated with the collaborative online encyclopedia's database.
• WuZAM  - MP3 search engine useful for finding free music downloads from various sources online.
• Yahoo Clues  - Presents search trends and demographic data for Yahoo! searches. Includes graphs and illustrations.
• Yatedo  - Free people search engine that offers choices in search for public profiles and famous people.
• ZoomInfo  - People, company, and job search service. Search by product or industry keyword.