Talk:List of search engines/Archive 4

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Edit request on 1 August 2013

Missing search engine http://www.gigablast.com/ which is a general web search engine as well as an open source search engine. Wiki12rt (talk) 04:50, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Not done: There is no article about Gigablast on Wikipedia, so it can't be included in the list. See the previous discussion on this page. RudolfRed (talk) 05:42, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 17 July 2013

Please add FlameStorm.com to the list of general search engines, thanks! Califmerchant (talk) 16:29, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done: There is no Wikipedia article about FlameStorm. Also, I think the search engine must fulfill Wikipedia notability requirements before being added. -- TOW  talk  19:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

By popularity

Could someone make a "By popularity" category for this list of search engines?

It would really help users to make up their mind about what search engine to use especially in terms of the private ones. Like how could I tell which private one has most searches? Is it Startpage.com or duckduckgo.com?

Btw, should DuckDuckGo not be listed in the metasearch engines since it uses multiple sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrick3004 (talk • contribs) 11:36, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.52.251 (talk) 19:37, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 1 August 2013

Gigablast is now a page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast Being one of the four web search engines in the U.S. with its own index over 1B pages it should probably be in the general search engine list as well as the open source engine list since it was recently open-sourced. - matt Wiki12rt (talk) 19:29, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Macrakis added it to the list. We shall see if the Gigablast page survives AfD or not. Cheers, —Unforgettableid (talk) 19:20, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 16 August 2013

• Geliyoo (Turkish)

FathArsln (talk) 18:58, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Not done: You appear to have become autoconfirmed since you left this. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 20:18, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

New category for Search engines for research

Research publications are searchable in search engines which are dedicated to them like BASE and MyScienceWork for Open Acces publications or Google scholar for a wider range of scientific publications. Those can not be listed in Medical as they also link to articles in physics, chemistry or social sciences.

I think that a category for Research should be created. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.240.229.83 (talk) 20:17, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 22 October 2013 /* Metasearch engines */ table

No.	Name	Language	Website
14	Otalo	English	otato.com

There is mistake in URL display name. Is should be otalo.com, not otato.com.

Tracerneo (talk) 07:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

 Done -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 07:39, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 25 October 2013

shopstyle.com --it now owned by Popsugar, should be added to shopping search engines. Librarychattering (talk) 14:51, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Not done: Unfortunately this list has a misleading title (List of search engines), but it's actually "a list of articles about search engines" (see the first sentence of the lead section). Shopstyle doesn't yet have an article, so we can't yet add it. Sorry. --Stfg (talk) 15:08, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Title does not relate to the content

List of search engines

This is a list of articles about search engines

No wonder why google does not work as a search engine.

As most list in Wikipedia this is an internal list of X that is notable enough to have its own Wikipedia article. This is perfectly normal. If you know about an search engine that is notable and missing you can create an article for it, and add that article. Runarb (talk) 11:09, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

That's not the point. The point is that the title says it's a list of search engines, whereas the lede says that it's a list of articles. Inconsistent. I would have thought, anyway, that a list of articles is a category. It would save misunderstanding like today's edit request. --Stfg (talk) 15:13, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

There is a Wikipedia page for Mozilla Firefox, but it is not listed on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.5.239 (talk) 15:22, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Why do you think Mozilla Firefox is a search engine? Kuru (talk) 15:40, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 29 October 2013

Please add http://endb-consolidated.aihit.com/ to Business section (or any appropriate) -- it is world wide companies search engine and DB built from WWW Jo kruger (talk) 10:31, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Not done: Unfortunately this list has a misleading title (List of search engines), but it's actually "a list of articles about search engines" (see the first sentence of the lead section). It appears that this engine doesn't have a Wikipedia article yet. If it does have one at some time in the future, please make a new request, giving the title of the article too, as the name isn't made clear in the page you linked to. Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 11:42, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

BTDigg bittorrent search engine

Maybe add a BTDigg.org to the list of BitTorrent search engines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.80.163.136 (talk) 21:29, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done Added BTDigg DMacks (talk) 14:47, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

New search engine submit request

User:Wifiboot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

Wifiboot Corp,is the first To start a 100% lgbt search engine and submit page.

Under The name lgbtbot. Of may 2013.

lgbtbot URL was not register till November 2013

Founded,by Brittany Davidson & CEO, Malachi Adonis P.Smith

http://www.submit.lgbtbot.com/

http://lgbtbot.com/search.php/ Wifiboot (talk) 23:35, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Not done: that is a user page, not a mainspace article. --Stfg (talk) 11:50, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Numbering of search engines looks like a rating

Why are the search engine tables are numbered? That looks like a rating and I do wonder, why a specific search engine is at rank XY. I would like to promote to remove the numbers and just sort them alphabetically. (as it is already done – just leave out those numbers…) --Feeela (talk) 09:27, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

No idea. I've removed it along with the list of external links. Kuru (talk) 13:01, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 January 2014

Please add a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoogle in the Swoogle semantic search engines list item. Thanks. Ub diNam (talk) 22:29, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Done... Kuru (talk) 00:41, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 February 2014

Please add Shodan (website), it is a significant search engine, page already exists 173.73.99.189 (talk) 03:49, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Done. Thanks --PeaceNT (talk) 00:18, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2014

Add LookSeek.com Lookseek (talk) 01:46, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Website needs a Wikipedia article for it to be included on the list. Acalycine^{(talk/contribs)} 02:00, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose to merge Outline of search engines into this page, as almost all the content is the same for both. Jc86035 (talk • contributions) 11:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Note that the scope of outlines and lists differ. For example, Outline of sharks presents subtopics of the entire subject of sharks, while List of sharks lists species of shark. Links about breeding habits of sharks do not belong in the list, but fit naturally in the outline. The same applies to search engines. A list of names of famous search engine designers would fit within the scope of Outline of search engine, but would be out of place in a list of search engines. Outlines are a more general form of topics list, while Lists are item lists. The Transhumanist 20:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Only the section "specific search engines" was the same. The content of that section has been replaced by a link to this list. Problem solved. The Transhumanist 20:01, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Blippex

Blippex.org seems like a good general search engine and should be added to the list (note: it is not a metasearch engine, it is an entirely new engine that uses user activity to get its results) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phly95 (talk • contribs) 00:42, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2014

SearchCo http://SearchCo.info Business Search Engine & Job Listing Business Development Resource SearchCo (talk) 20:32, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done:. Please provide evidence that it is Notable. RudolfRed (talk) 21:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 September 2014

Please add IRooGle(www.iroogle.com) to the General Engine Tables | IRooGLE || Persian Iroogle (talk) 06:42, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 September 2014

Under "Desktop search engines" in the program table, the program "Regain" should be added as a cross platform search program. It is still actively developed (started 2004-07-28 last update 2014-07-31). According to the table comment a page would need to be written for this item. Proposed table row:

Name	Platform	Remarks	License
Regain	Cross-platform	Daemon/Web based desktop search tool for Java, based on Lucene	LGPL

References

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4830:1100:ef::2 (talk)

Not done: Thanks, but the purpose of the article requirement is so that only notable search engines are included (for something to have an article, it must first be notable). Stickee (talk) 12:54, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

What about Qrobe?

Qrobe.it by Striquent LLC - my main search engine. --89.75.123.93 (talk) 15:18, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2014

Please add Motherpipe (https://search.motherpipe.com/) to the list of privacy search engines in section 3.1. ZootZootHoney (talk) 18:58, 9 September 2014 (UTC) ZootZootHoney (talk) 18:58, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

As noted above, the minimum threshold for inclusion here is that there is an article on the topic. Kuru (talk) 22:43, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Technorati is not a search engine anymore

Should be removed from list 2.2; can't do it myself due to semi-protection of page.

"The company's core product was previously an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The website stopped indexing blogs and assigning authority scores in May of 2014 with the launch of its new website, which is focused on online publishing and advertising." (from the very Wikipedia article the list entry links to)

217.228.169.162 (talk) 02:27, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Edited to add - while we're at section 2.2, blog search engines:

- Bloglines "is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats.", not a search engine;

- BlogScope "was shut down in early 2012".

217.228.169.162 (talk) 02:42, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2014

I haven't every done anything on Wikipedia before, let alone ask for an edit, so please excuse me if I have not handled this correctly here, but here goes: Would it be possible to add: http://www.jobmanji.com/ to this page under the section titled: "Job"? Thank you, my email is paulamcapelli@gmail.com if you need verification. 92.18.39.202 (talk) 16:07, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Not done: needs a reliable source that shows how this search engine is sufficiently notable for inclusion Cannolis (talk) 18:53, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Unlock this page

This page is locked. Like really? How controversial can a list of search engines possibly be to necessitate such a drastic move? I mean, I can understand the need for locking wikipedia pages such as, say, abortion or the holocaust or what not. But locking down a page about a list of available search engines? You people all are either completely ding-dong paranoid off your rockers, or you work for google and don't want people uploading alternatives.

Whatever the case keeping such a non-controversial page locked is an abuse of the wikipedia lock feature and an abuse of your powers as editors. Not to mention the article is a complete mess and NEEDS to be cleaned up which can't be done since you locked it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??? UNLOCK IT NOW!!! - — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.138.160.191 (talk) 23:52, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Update Source Code Search Engines

Could someone please update "2.4 Source code"?

Addition:

• Black Duck Open Hub

Note that the following are no longer active, but still have Wikipedia pages:

• Google Code Search
• Koders

5.104.113.171 (talk) 10:54, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2014

Please add Sabdam to the list of multilingual search engines. sabdam.com is a newer multilingual search engine focused on the non-Latin/Roman languages. Supports search in Asian (Middle-East, India, South/East, CJK), Cyrillic and other scripts/languages. Search using phonetic transcription in plain English is the key feature of sabdam. Native scripts and cross-language search also also supported. This can be reviewed and verified at http://sabdam.com Voxlingui (talk) 05:41, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Only search engines with Wikipedia articles are to be included on this list. Stickee (talk) 05:56, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 November 2014

Please add to the table of "Geographically limited scope engines" the following search engine: Name: Gjirafa.com Language: Albanian Country: Albania, Kosovo, and Republic of Macedonia Source:

Thank you for your assistance.

Optimus212 (talk) 16:49, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Not done: As noted above multiple times, the minimum threshold for inclusion here is that there is an article on the topic. Sam ^Sing! 16:57, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2014

| GeniusSearch.com ||English Skhoja1219 (talk) 01:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Only search engines with Wikipedia articles are to be included on this list. Stickee (talk) 03:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2014

| swisscows.ch ||English German French

Not done: As noted, only search engines with Wikipedia articles are to be included on this list. Kuru (talk) 12:32, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

FileSeek

FileSeek should be on the list. It works really well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileSeek. 30 days free trial, 9$ lifetime license. A few limitations to advanced features applies when the trial runs out. Morten.gorm.madsen (talk) 09:58, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Searx-based metasearch engines

Please add Searx instances from https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances to Metasearch engines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.21.93.252 (talk) 21:33, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

New search engine has surfaced

In September 2014, I have released a search engine that can search for images videos apps web torrents mp3 and maps. It's called ZendaSearch it's located at zendasearch.ca and zendasearch.com. It's also a mobile and handheld search engine. I would like it if you could post this Search Engine within your list of engines. Much appreciated. Contact me for more details. It was originally released in 2008 under a different name but I purchased its domain on September 18, 2014. Serlkamb (talk) 21:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Serlkamb: Thanks for the heads up, but the list is limited to those search engines which have Wikipedia articles about them, and it doesn't appear one exists for ZendaSearch. If you would like to write the article, you're welcome to do so, though I'd advise taking a look at Wikipedia's notability guidelines and Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. --— Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:12, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

@Serlkamb: @Rhododendrites: This site is not available anymore Pavel.shkleinik (talk) 16:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Personal Search Engines

Consider adding type: Personal Search Engines. Personal search engine represents a database that is built from keywords and characteristic values provided by people about themselves, services they provide and their property. This seems, that unlike web search engines, people search engines use human being as atomic index item. Currently there is only one prototype of this search engine type: Whoogle (consider to create page with brief description). Pavel.shkleinik (talk) 16:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

request about searchengines not mentioned in WP

which of the searchengines listed in https://sensiblochamaeleon.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/suchmaschinen-und-datensammler-und-datenschutz would you add here?

194.113.40.233 (talk) 12:27, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Any which already have a Wikipedia article about them. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 04:32, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Blekko

The search engine Blekko has been bought by IBM, and is now unavailable according to its homepage (Blekko.com), which redirects users to an IBM blog post describing the aquisition and the future for the search engine (http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2015/03/better-way-tap-big-data-gusher.html). This means that it should be removed from the "Content-general" section and added to the "Defunct or acquired search engines" section. This is as of March 27, 2015 PokeCaptain (talk) 20:29, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

@PokeCaptain: Done. Please let me know if the wording should be changed or alike.--Fixuture (talk) 20:50, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 June 2015

Addition of Category Request:

Event And Things To Do Search Engine

Ashleysexton (talk) 21:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

This entity does not appear to meet the inclusion criteria: there is no existing article. Kuru (talk) 00:03, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 July 2015

addition to Metasearch engine list: Skyscanner Multilingual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscanner 63.137.86.162 (talk) 20:45, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Done. Kuru (talk) 23:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 August 2015

IHi,

I would like to propose a new category: Associations NetworkOrganisations.com

http://www.networkorganisations.com Free global search engine and Networking Directory for all Network Organisations and Associations.

kind regards

Gert Folkerts gfolkerts@networkorganisations.com --86.95.98.4 (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2015 (UTC) 86.95.98.4 (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Not done: This entity does not appear to meet the inclusion criteria: there is no existing article. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:15, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 October 2015

There's no country called Kurdistan. Islamisforevershit (talk) 15:03, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

• Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. General Ization ^Talk 15:37, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 October 2015

add 100SearchEngines.com based on Google. 50.177.190.228 (talk) 06:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, but convention in lists such as this is that entries should first have a Wikipedia article to demonstrate notability. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 12:56, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 November 2015

|- | Parsijoo || Farsi

Hosseinkhosravi (talk) 17:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Not done: Make the page first Cannolis (talk) 17:53, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 January 2016

I want to add another item in the Desktop search engines table, it is about a "new" piece of software called deskrule (http://zabkat.com/deskrule). A simple table line could be

NAME: DeskRule (http://zabkat.com/deskrule) PLATFORM: Windows REMARKS: Expands windows search for all 300 system properties LICENSE: Proprietary (14 day trial)

thanks! Umeca74 (talk) 12:59, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Not done: Make the page first Cannolis (talk) 13:09, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposing adding the software application Listary to the list of search engines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listary

I found the wiki entry Listary, which states from the very beginning "Listary is a desktop search utility for Windows that can search for files on a computer. It works with items in File Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Windows Desktop, and "Open..." or "Save..." dialog boxes. Listary is licensed free of charge for personal use."

The official link to Listary is as follows:

http://www.listary.com/

Menace97 (talk) 07:45, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Menace97

SPER 1/17/2016

Please add the search engine Ecosia to this list. Maybe even add a something like a "good cause" section to the "By model" section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vanjanssen (talk • contribs) 23:37, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Done In veritas (talk) 01:40, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 February 2016

add searchalot.com under meta search, they have been around since 1999. longer than most of the sites listed. 50.177.190.228 (talk) 22:33, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 00:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Please add new search engine - solo-search

Hi Guys

Please add a new Private Web Search Engine - https://www.solo-search.com

Thanks!!

82.102.143.179 (talk) 09:31, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2016

Please add RE:SEARCH to the list of general search and metasearch engines underneath the "By content/topic" and sub-labeled underneath "General" as well as "Metasearch engines." This is because RE:SEARCH is a new search engine that has a general search function powered by Bing, but is used for educational and research purposes. This website can be seen at research.run .

Sagarwal19 (talk) 17:13, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Not done: as we do not appear to have an article on RE:SEARCH so it is not eligible for inclusion in this list. - Arjayay (talk) 18:04, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2016

High there Europe has a new search engine startup named CENTIL-Europe. Our search engine uses its own data-index and Web Spiders. CENTIL is startet 2 years ago Currently CENTIL is online in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. We will start in the next few months in English-speaking countries. www.centil-europe.de, www.centil-europe.ch Please can anyone adding this urls to the list of search engines? Centileurope (talk) 07:49, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Not done: The search engine does not have an article. — JJMC89 (T·C) 08:24, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Metasearch engines

According to this list:

http://l-lists.com/en/lists/e34z3f.html

this WP list of Metasearch engines is not complete, esp. DuckDuckGo and MetaGer were not on the list --77.180.189.136 (talk) 10:29, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2016

GoPit is a new search engine, and should be added.

|- | GoPit || English |-

Jeromi7 (talk) 22:36, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Not done: Notability must be established by having an article. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:58, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

add a new search engine with geographically limited scope

Finactum https://www.finactum.be is a search engine where you can search on company name, director name or VAT number for all Belgian companies the scope is limited to all companies and legal entities with a company or VAT registration and registered in Belgium the search is free and returns public financial information with ratio's such as e.g. solvability, liquidity and profitability — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucdevos (talk • contribs) 07:42, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

add new search engine in geographically limited scope

Hi. May i request to you something? Hmm pls add Coc Coc to geographically limited scope. The search engine is from Vietnam and the language is Vietnamese.... I hope you can add... sry if my english is bad... Thanks anyway — Preceding unsigned comment added by MoshiKun (talk • contribs) 14:55, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2016

Add a new Metasearch engine to the list box: Searx, as multilingual, located at https://searx.me.

As there isn't a wiki page for it, maybe a link to the site.

I can't give more detailed reasons, but add an "unknown" search engine not covered by Wikipedia yet.

Wikipuh (talk) 17:00, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Redfin is not a search engine

Redfin is a real estate company. Nearly every Realtor, broker and real estate agent has a website which can search the same property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.204.243.252 (talk) 15:06, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 February 2017

Please add https://metager.de/ (german version) and https://metager.de/en (english) to this page. It is a multilingual open source (https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer) meta search engine and offers: - maps , route planner (only Germany at this time, "rest" of the world to come, based on data of http://www.openstreetmap.org) - TOR-branch - no use of user data in any way - german, english, spanish interface - mobile version

Please ask carsten@suma-ev.de (office) or dominik@suma-ev.de (software) for further information. Carstenriel (talk) 06:37, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

@Carstenriel: Do you have any affiliation with this website? JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. -- Dane ^talk 20:11, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 February 2017

The comparison table should clarify DocFetcher does not support indexing mapped network drives or UNC paths. Distancesprinter (talk) 21:23, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 18:34, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 March 2017

Add a new search engine under "Education - General".

ArchivedWeb

An easy to use search engine tool to find pages that appear to be offline or have changed recently.

ArchivedWeb DannyvdH (talk) 07:11, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Not done: The article has been speedily deleted, so there's nothing to link. - MrOllie (talk) 13:36, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 April 2017

• Healthlibrary.in 122.179.67.166 (talk) 12:42, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

 Not done Generally search engines that don't even have their own Wikipedia article will also fail WP:NOTE standards for this article. — IVORK _Discuss 13:03, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 October 2017

In the 'General' section please add www.mojeek.com H2ONock (talk) 13:46, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Not done: Search engine is too small and isn't notable enough to be added to the list SparklingPessimist ^{Scream at me!} 19:36, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 October 2017

Need to add a new metasearch engine in the list. Name : Farenexus Location : Montreal, Canada website : www.farenexus.com Reference : http://www.paxnews.com/news/other/farenexuscom-launches-canada Farenexus Group (talk) 05:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

 Not done Notability is not asserted. Self-advertisement is not welcome. -- Alexf^(talk) 11:08, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 November 2017

Dear reader,

This request is to extend the "Desktop search engines" table with a new item.

Name Platform Remarks License Pinker Cross-Platform Find, organise and share your data. Freeware and commercial Nieuwkamp (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Not done: Entries in this list should be "notable" (in Wikipedia's sense of the term) = they should already have a stand-alone Wikipedia article based on in-depth coverage in multiple independent sources (see also WP:GNG and WP:WTAF). GermanJoe (talk) 22:36, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Findx Search Engine

general search engine based in Europe. Appears to be using its own results — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phly95 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2018

Addition - List of meta search engines Farenexus.com - Canada based metasearch engine. Bilingual Vishal Salaria (talk) 09:35, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 Not done only search engines with their own Wikipedia article are eligible for inclusion - and Farenexus does not have an article - Arjayay (talk) 11:58, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2018

Add to 1.1.14 News: YetiGoGo! - https://www.yetigogo.com Thomasmarban (talk) 13:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: These lists are restricted to "notable" entries with a stand-alone article based on multiple independent sources (see also WP:WTAF for an essay with additional advice). GermanJoe (talk) 13:37, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2018

I don't see any mentions of Torch (darkweb), SauceNAO(visual), or iqdb derivatives(visual), and I think they're notable enough to be considered. Gerphe (talk) 02:18, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit/addition request on 29 August 2018

Addition of:

• Qwant

at List of search engines#Privacy search engines footnote reference optional. 134.95.93.206 (talk) 02:56, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

References

 Done Sam Sailor 08:03, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit/addition request on 3rd October 2018

Facebook is no longer based on Bing or powered by Bing after Dec. 2014.

To quote :

> In December 2014, Facebook changed its search features, dropping partnership with Bing, and eliminating most of the search patterns.

It has its own search engine maintained by Facebook company.

Suggest to put Facebook search into the category "Social search engines", and add as the reference to it.

References:

Sleepsort (talk) 01:43, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Sleepsort

Semi-protected edit request on 19 October 2018

Crypto Search Engine Max.bertaccini (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC)Max.bertaccini (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC) Max.bertaccini (talk) 20:45, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: These lists are restricted to "notable" entries with a stand-alone article based on multiple independent sources (see also WP:WTAF for an essay with additional advice). ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 22:35, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 23 October 2018

Worth adding to the list - AtSign.co. Searches the web for contact information for companie. Relevant verticals would be Sales, Marketing, or Social Search. Their own website claims their data index is based on 6 billion pages.

https://www.atsign.co 72.141.23.236 (talk) 01:44, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

 Not done AtSign has no Wikipedia article. L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:01, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Google Dataset Search

The Google Dataset Search Wikipedia page already exists why not add this search engine in the list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Dataset_Search

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyboth (talk • contribs) 14:58, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2018

Mojeek Galalean (talk) 15:41, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 05:21, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Clarification:

Mojeek can be inserted to the following locations on the page:

- Under "By content/topic > General" (as multilingual)

- Under Privacy search engines

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. DannyS712 (talk) 22:51, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

KidzSearch

KidzSearch should be added to the list of Safe Search engines.

Mosely1001 (talk) 23:14, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

 Done NiciVampireHeart 09:36, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 April 2019

I would like to add Jive Search to the list of open source search engines. Their code is all on GitHub.com at https://github.com/jivesearch/jivesearch Mr giggles laughs (talk) 18:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: Such lists are commonly restricted to "notable" topics (in Wikipedia's sense of the term), that have already been covered in multiple independent sources and have a stand-alone article written first. See also WP:CSC and WP:GNG for more detailed information about these requirements. GermanJoe (talk) 18:57, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 June 2019

change

Open source search engines

• Elasticsearch
• Gigablast
• Grub
• ht://Dig
• Isearch
• Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
• Lucene
• mnoGoSearch
• Nutch
• Recoll
• Searchdaimon
• Searx
• Seeks
• Sphinx
• SWISH-E
• Terrier Search Engine
• Xapian
• YaCy
• Zettair

to

Open source search engines

• Elasticsearch
• Gigablast
• Grub
• ht://Dig
• Isearch
• Lemur Toolkit & Indri Search Engine
• Lucene
• mnoGoSearch
• Nutch
• Recoll
• Searchdaimon
• Searx
• Seeks
• Solr
• Sphinx
• SWISH-E
• Terrier Search Engine
• Xapian
• YaCy
• Zettair Gnandre (talk) 21:32, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. NiciVampireHeart 14:54, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

References

Why were GENERAL search engines split apart and put in two places unconnected?

And the rearranging was done without reason provided. All general search engines should be in one part of this article as it was from the beginning, separate from non-general search engines. The title "GENERAL" was put there for a reason. --Loginnigol 22:12, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Yase search engine

Maybe it could be worth it to add the Yase (https://www.yase.pw) search engine to the list, it is based on Bing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dutchhelper12 (talk • contribs) 14:04, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

solr is missing?

I know that an edit attempt is hopeless these days, which is why I am asking here: Are there _any_ good reasons why solr should be missing on this list?

I would expect to find it in the "Open source search engines", at least! It is a heavily supported, heavily used search engine. https://lucene.apache.org/solr/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:B580:A000:0:4542:438B:5830:A000 (talk) 09:39, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Done Thank you for the suggestion - I have added it to "Enterprise" and "Open source". Unfortunately some lists had to be semi-protected due to companies and marketeers trying to promote their non-notable, minor products here. But good-faith suggestions are always welcome, and of course you can also register an account to contribute to such pages. GermanJoe (talk) 10:11, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 October 2019

Hello

I would like to suggest to add https://codeseek.com/ search engine to this list. It is based on Google.

This service combines results from open-source code, programming tutorials and blogs, answers as in StackOverflow to bring the most relevant results for the developers.

Thanks Yulistr (talk) 20:40, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: Codeseek does not appear to have a Wikipedia article. aboideau^talk 20:46, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 November 2019

Please add GiveWater to the list of Social and environmental focus engines.

So from:

Social and environmental focus · Ecosia

To:

Social and environmental focus · Ecosia · GiveWater GiveWater (talk) 22:45, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

 Not done - GiveWater doesn't have a Wikipedia page, and you have a clear conflict of interest in promoting it. creffett (talk) 23:45, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Section issues

While I don't have an issue with the alphabetical listing of search engines in the By content/topic' section, I do have an issue with the "Alexa global ranking". An argument can be made that it is important but it also appears to be irrelevant and easily outdated. A 90 day ranking means that the Hotbot figures, shown in the table of "298,374" came up as "217,396" in global internet engagement today (2019-12-08 on a random check), so is severely flawed. The difference of 80,978 is around a whopping 27% discrepancy from the apparent listing date of 2018-12-28. If these figures are going to be used they must be updated. If nobody cares to do this then the information needs to be presented as historical (information as of a certain date) or the ranking section of the table removed. While using Amazon's Alexa may provide information valuable to some the encyclopedia value is certainly in doubt when it is not accurate. Providing the word "Alexa" 25 times in the reference section may actually improve the ranking of Alexa (or Amazon or both), or provide some apparently needed company advertising, the content is useless when presented as factual with a reference that is actually far outdated. Otr500 (talk) 13:46, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Ranking

For the purpose of relevancy and ranking it would seem far more important to list the "search engine ranking" (those that are listed) over a "global internet engagement" ranking that leaves horrible gaps. Google is listed as #1, Baidu as #4, Yahoo! as #7, Bing as # 47, and so on. I would see more significance in the ranking within the search engines (the particular subject of "List of search engines") over some global overall ranking. Surely my concerns are justified. I also checked the Alexa site and Yahoo shows to have dropped to #11. It was #10 on September 08, 2019. Bing shows to have raised to #29. From September 08, 2019, the rankings ranged from 29th, to 28th (9-21-19), to 29th (9-29-19), to 28th (10-01-19), to 29th (10-07-19), to #28 (10-15-19), #29 (10-18-19), to #30 (10-27-19), to #29 (11-03-19), to #30 (11-19-19), before settling on #29 on 12-01-19. The site fluctuates too much to be used for specific published information in an encyclopedia. Even at that, it is a long way from the published 47th place. Otr500 (talk) 14:59, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

privacywall.org is missing in the list

I am missing a privacy focused search engine privacywall.org NiMareQ (talk) 11:19, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Goto.com missing from list of defunct search engines

Quick suggestion: Would be worth adding the GoTo Search Engine into the list as it is historically significant to the sector. It was founded by Bill Gross, acquired by Yahoo and the functionality later replicated by Google to form the basis of its ubiquitous AdWords product. Without GoTo, it is unlikely Google would have monetised its search results effectively.

An interesting article from Slate can be found here.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Robbyyy (talk • contribs) 07:51, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Desktop search engines: Namazu is missing

Please add the good old Namazu it works fine e.g. for PDF desktop search: http://www.namazu.org/

185.17.12.31 (talk) 06:11, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 November 2020

in section : Geographically limited scope

please add jkhoj.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jkhoj.com Nepaliuser1 (talk) 06:08, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

 Not done for now: This page only lists actual articles, not drafts that have not yet been accepted to be articles. DMacks (talk) 06:29, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

"True Knowledge" no longer exists independently

True Knowledge evolved into Evi. Evi was absorbed into Amazon's Alexa The home page now reads: Evi, an Amazon company, was founded in 2005 under the name True Knowledge. The team started out with a mission to make it possible to access the world's knowledge simply by asking for information using natural language.ss Today, Evi is an integral part of Amazon Alexa. We’re part of the Amazon Alexa team based in Amazon's innovative Cambridge Development Centre, alongside other Amazon teams including Prime Air, Core Machine Learning, Amazon Devices and Amazon Web Services.

References

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.161.172.144 (talk) 19:48, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

I removed it. DMacks (talk) 18:50, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Gooken is still missing

In your list, search engine Gooken is still missing. Gooken is an English and German speaking meta search engine with an own local database for text-, images and videos produced by Andreas Stöwing, Mönchengladbach, Germany, server location: Radevormwald, NRW, Germany. Find out more details of Gooken from http://www.gooken.de or https://gooken.safe-ws.de/gooken !178.9.172.91 (talk) 12:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2021

New Search Engine

Onion Ride : https://www.onionride.com

PDF Search Engine

Pdf Drive Search : https://www.pdfdrivesearch.com Rautanushka (talk) 14:09, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

These are both the same site, and basically just ad-farms. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 April 2021

indian search engine wikiwhat.xyz 2409:4043:802:37B2:BD9F:DF8F:B31A:B3DA (talk) 06:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: See WP:WTAF. Sincerely, Deauthorized. (talk) 12:36, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2021

please add onesearch.co(1search.co) to the metasearch engines list. Name: onesearch.co(1search.co) Language: English Abhinaykrupa (talk) 03:41, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Not done: This list only includes entries with an existing Wikipedia article based on multiple independent sources. Please take a look at Wikipedia's general notability guideline, and see WP:WTAF for an essay with some additional advice. Thanks, ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 07:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 July 2021

Can you add Presearch to the list of search engines? Carrabre (talk) 19:48, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: Needs to be notable enough for a Wikipedia article. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:37, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 August 2021

Please make a single table which lists all search engines, without redundancy.

There are some search engines which are mentioned even five times.

There's also websites/software which are not search engines, just meta-search, or a place to search for contents produced by the websites themselves.

Having a search box doesn't make your website a search engine!!!

I was happily editing offline this article and when I finished (after having put everything in a single table) I crashed against the "Semi-protected article" notice.

The way this article is currently organised is a mess and only a few sections compare search engines in an objective way with specific data.

The following is a sample of how my update would look like:

Table sample

NAME

CREATOR

OWNER

SOURCE

LICENSE

BACK-END

HOSTING COUNTRY

LANGUAGE

AREA SERVED

WRITTEN IN

SUPPORTED DATABASES

LATEST RELEASE DATE

STATUS

PRICE

TRIAL DAYS

WEB

MOBILE

GNU/LINUX

SOLARIS

WINDOWS

MACOS

CONTENT/TOPIC

DATA TYPE

MODEL

DESCRIPTION

A9.com

bing.com

Accoona

Chinese, English

China, United States

Geographically localized

Adzuna

UK

Job

Ahmia

Dark Web

Alexa Internet

bing.com

AlltheWeb

Yahoo!

Defunct/acquired

AltaVista

Yahoo!

Defunct/acquired

Amatomu

Blog

Answers.com

Question and answer

AOL

bing.com

AOL Search

google.com

Defunct/acquired

Apache Solr

Enterprise

Enterprise

Ask.com

Multilingual

General

Natural language

AskMeNow

Question and answer

Baidu

Chinese

General

BASE

Education

Beagle

Open

X11/MIT, Apache

Defunct/acquired

Yes

Based on Apache Lucene

Biglobe

Japanese

Japan

Geographically localized

Bing

Multilingual

General

Natural language

Bioinformatic Harvester

Medical

Bixee.com

Ibibo

India

Defunct/acquired

Blekko

IBM

Defunct/acquired

blinkx

Multimedia

Bloglines

Blog

BlogScope

Marketwire

Defunct/acquired

BOL

google.com

Brainboost

Answers, Inc.

Defunct/acquired

BRS/Search

OpenText Livelink ECM Discovery Server

Defunct/acquired

BTDigg

BitTorrent

Btjunkie

Defunct/acquired

Business.com

Business

CareerBuilder

USA

Job

ChaCha Search

Social

Chegg

Education

ChemRefer

Education

Ciao!

bing.com

CiteAb

Medical (antibody)

CiteULike

Education

codeseek.com

Source code

Copernic

Closed

30

Yes

The full trial version downgrades after the trial period automatically to the free version, which is (anno 2018) limited to indexing a maximum of 10.000 files.

Craigslist

Job (by city)

Cuil

Google

Defunct/acquired

Daum

Korean

Korea

Geographically localized

Francisco Ferioli Marco. 17/08/2021.

Best regards,

Francisco Ferioli Marco (talk) 20:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: @Francisco Ferioli Marco: Hello! I'm going to deny this request because a) this isn't a "change X to Y" but mostly because b) if you make one more edit anywhere on Wikipedia you will be autoconfirmed, which will grant you the ability to edit this page yourself. I apologize that your attempted contribution didn't go through because of the page protection. For the future, you can look at the top right of any page and see what level of protection it has. After your next edit you will be able to edit pages that are "semi-protected". Happy editing! —Sirdog9002 (talk) 21:09, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Right, thank you. I will see if I find anything worth editing so I can edit this whole page myself. Francisco Ferioli Marco (talk) 21:19, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I could make the edit I wanted. The only thing I messed and I don't know how to fix is the references, though I've kept a copy of the previous version to add them later on when I have time. The "REF#" column I added is specifically intended to contain the reference numbers that will link to the "References" section".

Also, as I stated in my edit comment, I feel lists of specialised search engines should be put in the "See also" section of the article, not in the middle!!! Francisco Ferioli Marco (talk) 00:11, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

• I am sorry, but I reverted the change of the various lists into the one big table. Clearly, making the table was a big task and I have to admire the effort involved, but the resulting table is far too big to be readable. It is a difficult to follow on my large desktop screen and impossible on a small mobile screen. Also, much of the table is empty cells, so having one unified table does not seem very valuable. It might be worthwhile to re-organise the article and also to convert some of the lists to tables, but only if the resulting table is fairly "full" — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:44, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

  If you didn't like it being "too big", you could have divided it into smaller parts like the ones on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems, instead of throwing all my work away.

  I felt sceptic about how long this edit would last, so I saved an off-line copy of it on my computer. Thank goodness I did!

  It's really not of much value for me to work on a software article in which the amount of listed open source programs/services is disproportionately smaller than those which are closed source. Indeed, I made the edit to help future readers realise which projects were worth looking at based on an objective comparison.

  In my opinion the only ones which are worth are just the open source ones. Generally, they are more privacy friendly and they DO wish to CONTRIBUTE with their code/data/content to potential derivative works, which is the driving force of Wikipedia itself, and clearly not the one of Google, Microsoft, etc.

  I just find ridiculous that in a website like Wikipedia (supposedly copyleft) there are so many closed sourced projects and so little open source ones listed. Again, structuring everything into a table would have helped see this difference to further encourage adding more open source projects.

  Regarding the empty cells, I only used the information it was already present in the article, so if there are so many empty cells, it's because there's a lack of previous work in relationship with "information parity". I'd love to be able to fill every cell all alone, but the task is just huge. There are like around two hundred websites listed, clearly not something that can be completely edited in one day.

  My last comment, may a future edit of mine last if publish the same table divided into smaller tables, if no one else does it already. Francisco Ferioli Marco (talk) 05:54, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

• Believe me, I understand the frustrations of having your work reverted – I did not undo your work lightly. The advantage of a wiki is that all versions of a page are preserved (unless specifically erased due to some major transgression). Your version is still available in the article history and it could be referenced in any future discussions like this {{oldid2|1039307154}} which makes this link: [1] or with a permalink, which looks like this.
  The main issue with the One Big Table was the width – on a small screen it vanishes off to the side and scrolling to view the right side of it loses the row labels on the left side. Many articles use tall tables, but wide ones are often a major problem.
  The other issue was the amount of empty cells. It is not only that previous editors have not provided the information, but in many cases the column was not relevant to the type of entry.
  A way forward with this article would be to start converting some of the lists into tables. Pick lists where the table would have a limited number of columns with most cells having content or could be expected to have content reasonably easily. Work in smaller steps so that each edit is around just one table. Then, if two or more tables have most columns in common, maybe combine them. Over time, other editors will work to fill in the gaps — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 11:38, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

It would be nice if Wikimedia offered selectable columns, so that by default you only saw specific columns, but could either add columns, or require that a column contain specific values. In spreadsheet parlance, hide/show columns and auto-filtering. For hidden info, a link to click to show a popup with the hidden info. Scott McNay (talk) 17:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 December 2021

Please add Cốc Cốc Search to the General list and Geographically localized list.

Domain: Name: Cốc Cốc Search Language: Vietnamese Country: Vietnam

Sources:

Thank you, Alisa Zhazhieva (talk) 11:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 13 February 2022

Please add FileSearchEX to the list of desktop search engines.

Ref: https://goffconcepts.com/products/filesearchex/index.html

- ! Hartator (talk) 00:34, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: FileSearchEX. See WP:WTAF Cannolis (talk) 00:56, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2022

Change "Alexa Internet" to "Alexa Internet (now defunct)" under Bing section. Alexa Internet is currently discontinued. Xceptyon (talk) 09:57, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

 Done — CAPTAIN JTK (talk) 14:45, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Anonymous search engines

What do you think about a category or a subdivision "anonymous search engines"? Tuxyz (talk) 12:47, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Second to last item of first table

Says youdao operates on NetErase, pretty sure that's NetEase.

I'd change it myself but the beaurocracy here is a friggin nightmare 2600:1700:DF50:A1F0:8C11:7717:476C:F9F1 (talk) 01:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 November 2022

https://www.etools.ch is a Metasearch Engine from Switzerland not listed here. 185.207.144.81 (talk) 20:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: It must be notable enough for a Wikipedia article. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Unexplained reversion

Why did this reversion happen?

22:15, 4 February 2023‎ Luckylemming talk contribs‎ 24,369 bytes +34‎ Two search engines added to ¨Child-safe search engines¨ section Tag: Reverted — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luckylemming (talk • contribs)

It was not unexplained. When reverted, there was an edit summary of "rmv addition with no article". When you edit the article, there is a large warning that states: "Entries in these lists should be "notable". They should already have a stand-alone Wikipedia article based on in-depth coverage in multiple independent sources (see also WP:GNG and WP:WTAF)." It would be best practice to create sustainable articles for your additions first. Thanks. Sam Kuru (talk) 21:07, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry if I did not make that clear earlier through the way I posted, but both Qwant and SwissCows are already listed on the main article for other categories and they also filter inappropriate content, so, I believe they are notable enough for the purpose of the previous edit. Could I be wrong for some reason I did not consider?

Luckylemming (talk) 01:46, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

I see now. You added a link to a specific brand for Qwant that deals with a child-friendly search. That does not have an article, but you can add a label to a link for Qwant like this: "[[Qwant|QwantJunior]]". The link for Swisscow did not work as you added a capital C in the middle (our links are case sensitive). I've re-added both with working links - see if that's okay qith your original intent.Sam Kuru (talk) 02:03, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2023

Requesting addition to Defunct search engines list for MyStanky.com ran from 2001-2008 as a PPC Metasearch engine and one of the first to run PPC tech. https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/mystanky.com Delvalwebdev (talk) 10:01, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: It must be notable enough for a Wikipedia article. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:57, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 March 2023

Add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wego.com to this page below skyscanner since wego is also a legit meta search engine. Snehansusekharsahu (talk) 06:45, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done ■ ∃ Madeline ⇔ ∃ Part of me ; 22:18, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

DuckDuckGo vs Brave Search backend distinction

Both DuckDuckGo and Brave Search use Bing to source links, supplemented by their own indexes (see https://search.brave.com/help/independence#third-parties and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results). Is there a reason why DuckDuckGo is listed as being powered by Bing while Brave Search is listed as having it's own backend? 128.138.65.68 (talk) 19:51, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 June 2023

Add Timpi.com. There is a new search engine called Timpi. Their webpage is Timpi.com, and they have been in open Beta for a while now. Timpi is the first decentralized search engine that maintains its own index, which is independent from 3rd parties. Timpi International Limited is a registered business in New Zealand, and the founders are from there as well. SpybotNZ (talk) 23:12, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

 Not done for now: Timpi. See WP:WTAF Cannolis (talk) 23:33, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 June 2023

There is a dead link in this page PICO Search. I have a great article written on this topic and will help users to gain additional information. Please give me this opportunity to contribute my work in Wikipedia. Thanks Prabhjot604 (talk) 11:21, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it is not clear what you're requesting. If you'd like to create a Wikipedia article on PICO Search, you may do so by clicking the red link on the page and familiarizing with article creation guides like WP:FIRST. If you need any help, you can ask in the Teahouse.

Thank you for your contribution! NotAGenious (talk) 12:38, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2023

Add "4get.ca" to the list of available search engines, preferably placed under "searx" as they are quite similar (they are both open source). Lolcat12345678 (talk) 15:08, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: Per WP:WTAF. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 17:08, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 August 2023

Presearch.com has been active since 2017 and should be listed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minddragon (talk • contribs) 19:28, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 February 2024

Please add the search Engine Stract.com in your comparison - they have their own index as well 83.137.122.211 (talk) 17:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: To be included on this list, a search engine needs to be sufficiently notable for an English Wikipedia article first. PianoDan (talk) 18:29, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Should Google be added under individual specialized search engine sub list?

Videos, shopping, map, news, image, books, finance? The tabs are sonetimes present, sometimes not. Core tabs are always present. Greatder (talk) 16:42, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 June 2024

Exalead as a company is dead since 2014 and as something withing Dassault Systèmes does not exist anymore since 28 February 2024. It should be moved to the "Defunct or acquired search engines" section.

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton (talk) 16:58, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Kvasir - Norwegian search engine

Consider adding the Norwegian search engine Kvasir to the list, it's fairly unique as (according to this Norwegian Wikipedia entry) there are only four other countries that have search engine specialised for local results as Kvasir does.

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvasir_(s%C3%B8ketjeneste) 90.143.5.13 (talk) 20:42, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

The Norweigian wiki would seem to be wrong. There are more such engines already on our list. At any rate, this is a list of engines with preexisting English Wikipedia articles. MrOllie (talk) 20:55, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

Kvasir seems to only point to a google CSE form, they don't have their own index. 4luul4 (talk) 13:44, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 August 2024

Please add the search engine 4get.ca. It's a metasearch engine comparable to Searx that's been running for a few years. 4luul4 (talk) 13:48, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: WP:WTAF. DMacks (talk) 13:56, 7 August 2024 (UTC)