• Dragon Search Engine (Japan's KANJI search engine)
• Goo Japanese-language Internet search engine by NTT and Inktomi
• Yahoo! Japan
• The Japan Web Guide
• Geisya Internet
• Lycos Japan
• The Japanese language version of InfoSeek:
• Japanese search engines are available, including University of Tokyo's Odin , Hitachi's Hole-in-One , NTT's Titan , and Keio University's Nippon Search Engine .
• The Provider a website that has hundreds of stories that might be able to help you in your time of need.
• Japanese Search Engines
  A comprehensive index of Japanese Search Engines. This page is maintained by ATRIUM Books. English versions are indicated.
  
  • Japanese Search Engines
  • Japan Search Engine
  • All-in-One Search-Engines Japanl
  • Welcome to CyberSpace Japan ( CSJ )
  • Easy Search - Honda_
  • Hole-in-one
  • InfoNavigator
  • Japanese Search Engine - English-
  • NETPLAZA
  • NIPPON SEARCH ENGINE/dive
  • NTT Directory -English-
  • Open Documentary Information Navigator
  • Mondou search -kyoto-u.
  • Titan
  • Osaka Regional Information
  • InfoPlaza - WAVESearch -Sony-
  • Webdew
  • Impress WWW
  • Computing Japan
  • shaun@atrium.com
  • Shaun Lawson Public Relations
  • Senrigan search
  • in Japanese

• Singapore Search Engines
  • Ministerial Speeches Search Engine SPRInter by MITA provides a search on selected ministerial speeches by categories, author and date.
  • iAgent Singapore's very own Intelligent Information Agent. iAgent Server supports English, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Japanese (JIS/SJIS/EUC), Korean, Malay/Indonesian, Thai, Tamil (Murasu/Mylai/Kanian) and some European languages.
  • National Contact Information Service (NCIS)
    "Looking for a phone number or address ? National Contact Information Service is a new service which brings you contact information of people and organisations in Singapore. The only one of its kind, the service will search multiple online directories to find your contacts in one simple step. You'll also find out where to go for more information, like product descriptions & company business interests."
  • Surfers' Edge a searchable and browsable index of Singapore and Singapore related web sites.
  • Goldenvillage new search engine for Singapore related sites (Sept 98)
  • TechnoBiz Ventures Search Engine (http://www.technobiz.com/tbv/lo_band.html or http://www.technobiz.com/tbv/hi_band.html)
    TechnoBiz's search engine, TechnoFind is a free online facilities for the cyber community in Singapore to look for commercial, organisational, governmental or business web sites locally.
  • TechnoFind Search Engine (Singapore)
    Singapore InfoMap - a vehicle for government, business and social on-line information.
  • Search Singapore By SparkNet, Singapore. Browse and search Singapore web sites.
• Malaysia
  • Malaysia Search Engine (CARI)
• Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Search Engine
  • See also: Chinese Search Engines
• India
  • 123 India is a search engine dedicated to Indian links and information on the Internet.
  • Agni IndiaWatch's search engine
  • Indian Search Engine Jadoo A Yahoo!-style searchable catalogue of web links with "information on different topics related to India
  • Khoj
    Bombay-based Ravi Database Consultants (RDC) has launched khoj, a Yahoo-like searchable online directory that currently has over 800 India-related Web sites. "Khoj" is a Hindi word that means search. khoj catalogues the Web sites into 11 primary categories, and has a multilevel classification system.
• Korea
  • AnySearch Samsung Corporation (South Korea) recently launched AnySearch, a Korean Internet search engine that allows the search of Korean and English Web sites as well as articles of major daily newspapers.
  • Naver
  • Simmany - Korean search engine.
  • Wakano - Korean language search engine.

  Philippine

  • G-Spot GSI Spot - Phillipine search engine
• Taiwan
  • Yam Web Navigator - searchable database of Taiwanese web sites.
  • Taiwan Infoseek
  • See also: Chinese Search Engines
• Tamil
  You can download Tamil software: Murasu and more at Tamil WWW archive in NUS
  
  • Theni search tamil webs (in english)
  • iAgent: Tamil Search (if you have Murasu fonts)
  • iAgent: Tamil Search (if you have Tamil Kanian fonts)
• ASIA / ASEAN
  • GlobePage (USA).Search for Asian (mainly Taiwan, HK and China pages) sites.
  • SAIR South Asian Internet Resources search engine has the largest and most complete resources for India and other South Asian countries -Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bngladesh and Nepal.
  • ASEAN Internet Search
  • Yahoo! in Asia
• Australia and New Zealand
  • Australian Internet Directories
    A searchable index of Australian Web sites, Usenet and e-mail discussion groups.
  • ANZWERS
    If you are searching for Australian and New Zealand websites, a new search engine we've been using which will allow you to confine your searches by country/region is ANZWERS
  • Fiji Search Engine
  • Kapow! - a one-stop search site for Australian content.
• North America
  • Yahoo! Metros: Atlanta - Austin - Boston - Chicago - Dallas / Fort Worth - Los Angeles
    Miami - Minneapolis / St. Paul - New York - S.F. Bay - Seattle - Wash D.C.
  • Author's note: see also major search engines such as altavista, excite. Regional editions are available:
    • Regional Editions Overview
    • Regional Editions Chart
    • AltaVista Regional Editions
    • Excite Regional Editions
    • Infoseek Regional Editions
    • Lycos Regional Editions
• Canada
  • Alcanseek - Alaskan and Canadian web sites.
  • Find-It! -- Quebec, Canada
  • Yahoo! Canada
• Europe
  • European search engines, directories & lists
  • Euroseek
    European Search Engine
    
  • Euroferret
    European search engine from Muscat. Users may elect to search all of Europe, or by individual countries including the UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia and a great many others.
  • Johnes - a search engine for European users.
  • Jubii! (Denmark search engine)
  • JumpStation II -- Stirling, Scotland
  • France Search Engines (In French)
    • Lokace - The first all-French search engine. votre moteur de recherche francophone
    • Francit - French Search Engine.
    • Yahoo! France
    • Lycos France
    • CoCorico!
    • Nomade
    • France Pratique
  • Germany
    • Yahoo Germany
    • Lycos Germany
    • LEO - Link Everything Online
    • Crawler.De
    • Dino
    • InterSearch.net
    • Web.de
    • finden.de
    • Kolibri
    • Suchmaschine.com
    • Sharelook.com
    • bellnet.com
    • netguide.de
    • hotlist.de
  • Greece
    • Next Crawler a Greek search tool.
  • Heuréka - search engine for the Hungarian Webpages
  • Netherland Search Engines
    • Findit
    • Metroscope
    • Dutch Home Page
    • Location Info Organization
    • Search.NL - Search Dutch cyberspace. Unique fuzzy searching eliminates the need for correct spelling of search queries.
  • Swiss Search - full text search engine for Switzerland, Suchmaschine für die Schweiz. L'index de recherche pour la Suisse entière. Il cercaindice per tutta la svizzera. Full text search engine for Switzerland. Offered in English, Germany, French and Italian languages.
  • UK Search engines
    • UK Lycos
    • UK Search - searchable database of UK web sites.
    • Excite UK
    • UKIndex
    • UKPlus
    • The Internet Directory UK
    • Euroferret
    • G.O.D.
    • UKCybersearch
    • Yahoo UK
    • UK Engineering Search Engine
      "An extremely useful new service has been made available by EEVL: the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library. It is called the UK Engineering Search Engine, and basically it is a searchable index of every word from the Web pages of almost all of the UK engineering resources included in the EEVL database."
    • UK Search Engines : Company Names Search
  • YuSearch The ultimate Search for everything that is in any way related to Yugoslavia
• Other regions
  • ArabSeek
    'The first Arabized search engine,' created by al-Nadeem, provides over 1,001 specific and up-to-date sites related to the Middle East.
  • Brazil Cade? Brazillian Search Service
  • Malta Search Maltese Islands of Malta, Gozo & Comino in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Maven - A searchable A-Z guide to thousands of Jewish/Israel links
  • Sesna Seach Ukranian
  • Russian Search Engines
  • Russia NYet Russia on the Net delivers a "yahoo-ish" organized directory of hundreds of Web sites, though all are in Russia or associated with Russia.
  • Snooz metaSearch Syntax translating javascript metasearch page that can search inside any one or two domains.
  • South Africa
    • Ananzi
      The South African home grown search engine, Ananzi positions itself as a local answer to Yahoo, with a directory of sites in categories ranging from Advertising to Travel.
      The latest addition to South African search resources comes from the New Media Laboratory at Rhodes University Gogga, which searches the news archives of the Mail & Guardian, Independent Online, Financial Mail, Business Day, Beeld, Die Burger, and the South African embassy in Washington, DC.
  • Spanish ...
    • All 31 search engines of the Spanish/Portuguese/Catalan world, gathered by Ogilvy&Mather BrandNet, the O&M trilingual corporate site.
    • el índice
    • ¡Olé!
    • tu Spain
    • Ugabula - buscador: search Spanish and Latin sites.
  • Sea Crawler - search engine for Seattle web sites.
  • eDirectory
    Wonderful directory of search engines from around the world, listed by country, including Argentina, Columbia, France, Japan, Spain and many more. Pick country and link will list search engines particular to that country.
  • ZZZ Search search in Estonian.

• Noah, the animal search engine
  Your one-stop resource for everything animal on the web! Discover Noah, The animal search engine dedicated only to quality animal sites.
• Fish This form activates the fish-search on www.win.tue.nl.

• Aleph
  The french Architecture Resource Site offers Internet search service. Searches are performed by Aleph staff and answers E-mailed within 48 h. Page in french but most important European languages are understood, English, Spanish, German, Italian, French.
• Argos Has been designed to let you search ancient and medieval worlds.

• Special search engines for the Fine Arts

• Automotive search at eAuto

Note: Users may install commercial multi-lingual software that allows processing of Chinese characters. For more information, see Chinese Webs and Reading Chinese on the Internet

• Recommended (Purified Models):
  • Yahoo! Chinese Query in Big5 or English. GB version available
  • GlobePage Chinese Search Engine (USA and mirrors). GB, BIG5 or English.
  • GoYoYo Chinese Search Engine ±y¹C¤¤¤å·j¯Á¾¹ (USA and mirrors at HK, Beijing, Taiwan, Chungking and Shanghai)
  • Jasmine and ANSers
• Chinese GB search engines evaluation
• Seed Net (Taiwan site) ´
• whatsite «z¶ë¤¤¤åºô ´ (Taiwan site)
• HiNet Simple Search ¤¤µØ¹q«H
• WaCow (taiwan)
• WWW Index HK searchable Big5, GB, english. (Hong Kong)
• Wownet ºôºô¬Û³s ] (taiwan)
• Yam Web Navigator ¿»Á¦ÃÃ¥xÆWºô¸ô¯Á¤Þ - searchable database of Taiwanese web sites. Big5.
• China Big searchable yellow pages of China
• Great China Web ¤j ¤¤ µØ ºô Their online news, statistics, law, business etc) are searchable in Chinese.
• Chinese Pages Web Guide (Singapore)

• Livelink Pinstripe - the source for business knowledge
  Indexes only web pages pertinent to business users. Database is refreshed every 2 weeks.
• ASAE American Society of Association Executive
  This ASAE service takes you directly to many of the associations currently operating on the World-Wide Web. Use this searchable directory for the fastest way to locate an organization.
• Author's note: You can also use a regional/country search engine to locate company web sites from that country
• Web Scope Electronics Manufactures Searchable directory.
• MRO-Explorer - industrial search engine to locate distributors, manufacturers, and related subjects.
• Author's note: Many business directories on the web are fully searchable. The list is too long to be listed here. If you are searching for companies or manufacturers, try the Business Directories page.
• IBM infoMarket Search
• Ee Toolbox Advanced Search
• WebFinder Search for web pages associated with organizations by entering information about the organization.

• Computing Search Engine
• CMP Publications Search Computer publications
• Censorware Search Engine
• Filez
  Filez allows users to search for files in a number of different ways: a. Search for files specific to an operating system: Macintosh, Windows, Amiga, etc. b. Search for specific types of files: games, graphics, fonts, movies, midi files, or sounds. c. Search through ten popular shareware/freeware archives or 25 popular commercial ftp archives. d. Search servers with a particular domain suffix - .com,.edu, or .gov.
• FTP Search
• ISPcheck
• MacinSearch full-text Macintosh WWW search engine.
  Every word of each page has been indexed. Sites are displayed based upon the relevency of the search keywords. Multilingual interfaces are available. Searches will give higher relevency to sites in your native language or country.
• MacroBot
  Its a search agent where you users can send out robots to search specific sections of your Intranet.
• Sprockets and Cogs Technical Search Tool
  - indexes technical sites with documentation of specific interest to Web developers and programmers.
• Ziff-Davis Publications Search

• Cybercafe Search Engine
• CyberStar CafeLocate
• Cybercafe Worldwide

• Educational Search Engine
• Education World Search

• Aqueous - water related content.
• EEVL E-journal search The Engineering E-journal Search Engine se arches the full text of over seventy engineering e-journals which are listed in the Main EEVL Database of engineering resources.
• Energysearch
  Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) launched Energysearch, a new Internet search engine for energy-related topics. The Energysearch database includes more than 180,000 documents from over 500 sites tailored especially for the energy professional.
• GeoIndex
  a search engine specially geared towards geo-environmental professionals
• Patent Search
• Search Engine Seminar for Engineers
  This web based seminar at NTU, Singapore, is designed to help engineering teaching staff understand and use search engines and search tools more effectively to locate resources and information for curriculum planning, teaching, daily administrative and simply for surfing!
  

• FinanceWise search engine focuses specifically on financial-only content.
  Topics from risk management to syndicated finance and equities is indexed in depth, with the contents of each site evaluated by an editorial staff before sites are allowed into FinanceWise's search index. This free service from Xtranet indexed 3,300 sites covering financial media, technology companies, professional associations, research companies, consultants, banks and brokers and government; and contains over 5 million pages.
• JustQuotes
  A stock and mutual fund search engine. Over 200 links to web pages that carry financial information. Searches link to quotes charts, news, profiles, earnings estimates, SEC filings, analyst and research reports, magazines and newspapers, and search engines from the likes of MS Investor Quote, Reuters MoneyNet and StockPoint Analysis Summary.
• StockWiz
  There is a new search engine on the Internet, exclusively for investment information. Unlike Yahoo, Alta-Vista, Hotbot, etc., this search engine provides only financial information, retrievable by ticker symbol or company name. The output of the search is a table with categories and relevant links for each category.
• StreetEYE [Wall Street Search Engine]
  (NetEYE, Inc)
  A new search engine listing over 1400 of the most relevant and up-to-date Internet resources for financial professionals, including sites from the financial news media, market data providers, brokers, banks, investment managers, government agencies, newsletters, academic institutions, and industry organizations.

• Achoo! Healthcare Directory
• AIDS Search Engine
• Cancer Search Engine
• Center for International Health Information (CIHI) The CIHI Website provides data on current status and trends in population, nutrition, and health for developing countries. Country, regional, and time series data are available in tables in either text or .pdf format for sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Dentistry Search Engine
• Drug Database Search engine for drugs.
• Engine Diseases & Disorders
• General Health Search
• Health & Medicine Search Engine
• HealthGate Search MEDLINE, CANCERLIT, and more for free.
• The Internet Drug Index has a search engine of over 4000 prescription medications...Plus it has a listing of the top 200 prescribed medications and listings of the side effects of various medications.
• MEDLINE database search (free) contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from about 3,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years.
• Medical Products Search
• Medical World Search Medical World Search combs "major (unnamed) sites," Infoseek, HotBot, AltaVista and Webcrawler.
• Medsite: medical search engine keyword searchable, also options for browsing by medsite categories.
• Mental Health Search
• PhyNet Medline
• PubMed Health Industry Manufacturers Association
• Snooz MEDLINE Search
• Medindex: directory of suppliers of healthcare equipment and services (mostly UK).
  This is not a search engine, but included here as I find the directory useful if one needs to search for medical products or manufacturers. Search for suppliers of a particular product or service: or search for a company by name, go to the company index

• Clip Art Search Engine
  Customized search forms designed specifically to locate clip-art, icons, backgrounds, bullets, lines, buttons and sounds.
• Image Surfer Web
  A search engine for images on the Web. You enter keywords and receive thumbnails versions of correlating pictures.
  
• Query by Image Content (QBIC) IBM project.
• WebSeek
• Webseek based at Columbia University.
  To rack down imagery. Locate file names containing acronyms, such as GIF or MPEG, that designate graphics or video content. Content based image and video catalog and search tool provides searching through one million images and videos by subject categories, text and visual features.
• WebSeer
  A 700,000 plus image database. Search for graphics by subject, dimensioins, colors and image origin.
• Yahoo! Image Surfer

• Northern Light
  Northern Light (new in Fall 1997) combines in one search a very large full-text Web-page database with over 1,500 searchable full-text published (print) journals. In one search command, you may access both relevant web-pages and relevant journals. Each item in your search results will be tagged "WWW" or "Special Collection" (published, fee-for-viewing journal or other publication).
• Author's note: Many major publishers provide journal table of contents on their web site. For a list of these publishers, see table of contents and abstract services

• FindLaw - LawCrawler
  Search engine which allows you to search for laws from a wide range of sources, including: FCC, FTC, SEC, Library of Congress, US Military Sites and the Federal Judicial Center.
• Kimes International Law Diretcory - Practioner Search
• Virtual Legal Search Engines
  This site contains 500 specialized search engines in more than 40 categories. There are links to search engines for dictionaries, directories, and search engines. The site includes links to the search engines for a number of the legal research/resource sites, and you can search Supreme Court decisions, constitutions, statutes, and codes.
• Webseeker Legal Researcher Downloadable web searching tool for law related sites. Requires Windows 95/NT.

• A Business Compass
  A free search engine that furnishes market resources from 1,000+ online business news providers. Each business site profiled is organized by Subject, Industry and Geography.
• Electric Library [$$$]
  Simultaneous search through more than 150 full-text newspapers, (1,739,023 newspaper articles and two international newswire), 352,166 magazine articles, over 162,278 book chapters (from 2000 works), 1,103 maps, 32,336 television and radio transcripts, and over 28,000 photos and images
  If you are using Electric Library for the first time, please sign up for your 30 day free access period
• GRIT - internet broadcasting station with web reviews, politics, news, sports, music, excercise and more via StreamWorks & RealAudio.
• LiquidNavigator
  You can access a "lite" version of LiquidNavigator for FREE through GamePen - SEARCH ENGINE FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA EXECS. This online information tool is designed as a research companion for business entrepreneurs in the field of interactive media, entertainment, the Internet and affiliated industries.
• News Index and Total News A "news only" search engine.
• News Index is a NEWS ONLY search engine. Indexing current articles from hundreds of sources from around the world. It is not an archive but a resource for finding more articles on current stories.
• Newsbot the news only search engine here at Wired Digital, turned up articles from today on the same topic.
• Philip.Net Your Channel Guide
  IXE Launches PHLIP.NET - the First Push Media Directory and Search Engine * an easy-to-use, multilingual directory and search engine designed to provide a one-stop site dedicated exclusively to push media "channels." (8/1/97)
• Scour.net
  Multimedia search with media type options audio, video, images.
• Whoopie! The Index of Audio and Video on the Internet
  Comprehensive audio and video search engine on the Internet. Live daily program guide of streamed audio and video. Allows you to search both directories at once, individually, or browse through a number of categories including news, sports, medical, miscellaneous clips and educational/documentary.

• James Kirk Search Engine Star Trek sites.
• Jazz Artists Search Engine
  Looking for the latest news, concerts and Internet links for your favorite Jazz Artist? Check out the new Jazz Artists Search Engine.
• Lyrics Server at University of Wisconsin at Parkside
  Search for lyrics: full text search or artist/title search.
• MusicSearch
• Music Mega Search Engine
• Scour.net
  Multimedia search with media type options audio, video, images.

• Pollinia: Network Orchid Stuff - search engine that focuses on orchid-related web sites.

• Ahoy! The Homepage Finder search for personal homepages by name, family name, country etc.

• Einstein's SIC Codes for Windows95 Freeware
  Einstein's SIC Codes for Win95 is a freeware utility demonstrating the search capabilities of HYPER Einstein.
  
• MathSearch - search a collection of mathematical Web material

• Junglee at Compaq
• Hotbot Shopping Bot
• Visa Shopping by Yahoo!
• WebMarket

• Ferret The Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool. FERRET is a computer search tool developed by the Census Bureau and BLS. It is designed to aid not only sophisticated researchers, but also reporters, students, government policy-makers or amateur statisticians.
• Author's Note: Statistical Locators is a list of web sites providing statistical data. Many of the statistical database on these sites are searchable.

• The Accommodation Search Engine
• Accommodation Search Engine UK
• Airport Search Engine ASE
  ASE can be used to search three letter airport codes, information on 9000 airports from all over the world and 200 links to airport home pages.
• Campsearch - global directory of summer camps
• DIY search for DIY music, e-zine and arts community.
• Humor search search the web for humor sites
• SearchSport THE Sports Directory
• Seniors Search Engine SeniorsSearch cuts to the chase and contains subjects relevant to the lifestyle of the over 50 age group.
• Travel-Finder Spider - demonstration contains information collected on travel related resources and information.

• Hall of Names Surname Research Search Engines
  Ever wonder where you family originated? Online Search Engine in which you key in your family name will search database of 650,000 surname histories for origin information as well as time and county/prov/state/country.
• LatinPoint SearchEngine
  "Search the more than 23,000 Latin Records and 3000 Internet Selected Links inside our Business Contacts Database."
• AvatarSearch search engine dedicated to magick, paganism and the occult.