Search engines for specific purposes.

Online Translation Memories

• MyMemory by Translated.net: Around 100m segments by end 2008. Anyone may consult or contribute, although contributions are carefully vetted for quality. Supports instant creation of customized memories for specific jobs which may be opened with any CAT tool. Systematically searches and downloads translated pages, which are classified by source, subject and quality.
• Translation Search Machine (Beta): TSM searches web pages that have been translated into several languages, and it's estimated that by the end of 2008 around 60% of all translated web pages will have been indexed.
• Webitext: search engine for aligned bilingual text on the Web.
• Open-Tran: multilingual search engine with full access to the translations of many open source programs.
• Linear B: searchable translation memories.

Translation resources

• Eureka: Search engine for translation resources .
• Babelplex: Bilingual search (29 bilingual combinations) for Web, blogs, images, videos and Wikipedia.
• Google Translated Search: The same as Babelplex but only Web search (I know, it's Google, but in a different way).
• Google terminologique by Yvan Cloutier (French): Multiple dictionary search.
• Translation Studies by Nicholas Lewis: Custom search engine for translation studies.
• Lexicool: Glossaries search engine with links to over 6000 dictionaries and glossaries.

Semantic Search

• Hakia: Semantic search engine for information in medicine, law, finance, and other topics.
• Similicio.us: find related articles based on del.icio.us tags.
• Lexxe: Interesting option.
• Wundbar
• Answers

Visual Search

• Quintura: Visual context-based search searching.
• Cluuz: Really nice and clean interface (based on Yahoo!).
• Searchme: Really interesting, now in public Beta (although only for high speed connections).
• Kooltorch: Displays large numbers of search results in a useful context.
• WikiMindMap: Mindmaps from Wikipedia (available in 10 languages).
• Semantic Atlas: Visual terminology.
• Mnemo: Nice and clean interface with really interesting features. A mixture between visual, semantic and standard search engines.
• Kvisu: nice and clean interface.
• Search Cloud: interesting mashup between traditional and visual search.

Metasearch

Multiple search engines.

• TWERQ Beta RC4: Promising multiple search engine, with tabbed browsing and many other options.
• Sputtr: Customizable homepage and easy to use.
• Clusty: Combines the results from several search engines based on comparative ranking (Based on Gigablast).
• Surfwax: Practical and with a nice interface.
• iSEEK: Interesting.
• ManagedQ: Preview of webpages.
• Metacrawler
• Ixquick
• Pandia

Research

• Internet Archive: Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artefacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
• INFOMINE: Virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level (contains databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, etc.).
• Scirus: Over 450 million scientific items indexed: journals, scientists' homepages, courses, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
• ScienceResearch.com: Access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases.
• National Academies Press: Free access to more than 3,700 books online. Topics are science, engineering, and health.
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre): Access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
• HighWire Press by the University of Stanford: Access to 1129 journals and 4,735,437 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers (1,875,058 free articles).
• Intute: Network of UK universities and partners. The database contains 123353 records.
• Internet Public Library
• Patents: patents advanced search engine.
• [http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html US Patent Full-Text and Image Database.

Books

• Project Gutenberg: Over 25,000 free books.
• Bibliomania: Free access to more than 2000 Classic Texts.
• The Online Books Page by Penn University: Listing over 30,000 free books.
• Read Print
• Lalisio Literature: 6 million bibliographic data records (books and articles).

Images

• oSkope: Mashup between a visual and an image search engine.
• Ditto
• Picsearch
• MediaMingle

News

• Topix
• Magportal
• Newsnow
• Newlookup
• Lexisnexis
• EMM Newsbrief: breaking news classified according to subjects (European Community multilingual news service).
• EMM Labs: graphical analysis, social networks and trends based on breaking news (European Community multilingual news service).
• Silobreaker: contextual and graphical news search engine.
• Jamesoo: visual news search engine.

Invisible Web

Search engines that link to data not entirely searchable from general search engines.

• MediaWombat: Flash and Multimedia content search.
• Direct Search
• IncyWincy
• Turbo10
• Librarians Internet Index
• Complete Planet
• Beaucoup

Feeds

• Bloglines
• Blogpulse
• Technorati
• Plazoo
• RSSMicro

Privacy Protection

Search engines that delete your personal data.

• Ixquick: awarded with the first European Privacy Seal.
• Scroogle: anonimizes Google searches.

Others

• Ask: the third/fourth in the battle.
• Cuil: they claim to have created the world’s biggest index and, although this has not yet been verified, proves to be a nice and easy to use alternative.
• Gigablast: Interesting option (web, images, video, directory and date), Gigablast is one of the pure Internet search engines (don't use third party results provider).
• Yoozila: allows to filter by region, file type, license, language and perform searches within given results.
• FAROO: P2P Search engine. FAROO is a program that implements web search based on Peer-to-peer technology. Every web page visited is automatically included in the index of the search engine. The ranking of search results is based on a distributed usage statistics of the web pages visited by FAROO users.
• Searchmash: Fast search engine owned by Google with mixed results (images, blogs, videos and Wikipedia).
• Factbites: Presents meaningful sentences from every site in the search results.
• Powerset: advanced search options for Wikipedia articles.
• Guruji: The Indian search engine.
• AlltheWeb: Web, news, images, video and audio (based on Yahoo!).
• Exalead: Web and images (based on Yahoo!).
• International Data Base: Demographic data for selected indicators, countries, user-selected regions and years.
• U.S. Copyright: registered works and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since 1978.

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