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Regional search engines (round the world)

Occasionally we encounter other regional search engines, usually because they start crawling our site (itself a measure of their quality). Many of the portal sites like Yahoo and Lycos have regional sites.

http://world.voila.com/

A French portal site with a fairly comprehensive search engine (powered by ECHO). An English version is at www.voila.com

Country Engine URL
Arabic Google www.arabia.com
Australia Inktomi www.anzwers.com.au
  n/a www.ausindex.com.au
  n/a www.cowleys.com.au
  AltaVista www.goeureka.com.au
  n/a www.ozengine.com/ozengine
  n/a www.ozguide.com/search/
  n/a www.ozsearch.com.au
  n/a www.platonsearch.com/australia
  n/a www.sofcom.com.au
  n/a www.webfind.com.au
  Cradle www.websearch.com.au
  n/a www.webwombat.com.au
  n/a www.wilddogsearch.com.au
  Excite www.excite.com.au
  Looksmart www.looksmart.com.au
  Yahoo www.yahoo.com.au
Austria n/a www.abacho.at
Brazil n/a www.exploora.com.br
Canada UdmSearch www.maplesearch.com
  n/a + Google www.toile.com (French)
  n/a www.canseek.ca
  n/a www.canadiancontent.net
Chinese n/a www.openfind.com
Czech Republic n/a www.seznam.cz
Denmark Acsys www.jubii.dk
  Fast www.kvasir.dk
Finland meta www.walhello.com/mainfi.html
  n/a http://www.fi
  Fast/Looksmart www.evreka.fi
France n/a www.spray.fr/search/index.jsp
  n/a www.trouvez.com
  Fast www.free.fr/chercher/
  ISpoke www.webhelp.fr
  Inktomi www.nomade.fr
  meta www.walhello.com/mainfr.html
  meta www.infozoid.com/francais/
  n/a http://fr.abacho.com/
  n/a http://fr.sgtsearch.com/
Germany KIT-Fireball www.fireball.de
  n/a http://crawler.de/
  n/a http://search.spray.net/index.jsp
  n/a www.eurip.com
  (meta) www.multimeta.de
  n/a www.speedfind.de
  Twirlix www.twirlix.de (offers preview images of pages found)
  n/a www.nettz.de
  meta www.walhello.com/mainde.html
  meta www.infozoid.com/deutsche/
  n/a www.abacho.de
  InfoSeek www.webseek.de
  n/a www.suchbot.de
  n/a www.mediastreet.de
Greece AltaVista www.robby.gr
  Trinity www.pathfinder.gr
  n/a www.phantis.com
Hungary Nothern Light http://vizsla.origo.hu/katalogus?
India n/a http://search.forindia.com/
(US-based meta-engine at portal for Indians round the world)
  AltaVista www.rediff.com
  AltaVista http://search.indya.com/
  Lycos http://in.lycosasia.com/
Israel (meta) www.zooloo.co.il/Z_SearchACTACT9.asp?SO=2
(in Hebrew)
  n/a http://www.parapara.co.il/ (software library)
Italy n/a http://search.spray.it/index.jsp
  Infoseek http://websearch.virgilio.it
  meta www.infozoid.com/italiano/
  n/a www.ilmotore.com
  Google www.jumpy.it
  Google http://search.supereva.it/
  n/a www.iltrovatore.it
Japan InkTomi www.goo.ne.jp
  n/a www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/namazu/namazu.html
Netherlands meta www.walhello.com/mainnl.html
  meta www.metaspider.nl
  n/a http://zoek.vinden.nl/
  n/a http://web.planet.nl/zoeken/
New Zealand n/a www.linknz.co.nz
Norway n/a http://dpsearchno.spray.net/index.jsp
  Fast http://search.sol.no/ or http://kvasir.sol.no/
Poland Google http://szukaj.ahoj.pl/
Portugal Google http://opiniao.sapo.pt/
  DMoz/portal www.SearchIberia.com
Russia Rambler http://search.rambler.ru/
  Yandex www.yandex.ru
Spain/Spanish metabusca http://metabusca.com/
  n/a www.eresmas.com or www.alehop.com
  meta www.walhello.com/mainsp.html
  Fast http://buscador.ya.com/
  n/a www.buscadorespanol.com
  meta www.infozoid.com/espanol/
  n/a www.hispavista.com
  Google www.demasiado.com
  n/a http://es.abacho.com/
  DMoz/portal www.SearchIberia.com
  n/a www.typicallyspanish.com
Sweden AltaVista www.evreka.com
  n/a www.spray.se/sok/
  meta www.walhello.com/mainse.html
Switzerland AltaVista http://sear.ch/
  n/a www.surfer.ch
  n/a www.search.ch
  n/a www.abacho.ch
Thailand n/a www.thaifind.com
  n/a www.thaiseek.com
  n/a www.ut9.com/cgi-bin/thaisearch
Turkey AltaVista http://arama.turkvista.com/
  Google www.porttakal.com
UK directory www.askalex.co.uk
  directory currently offline www.ukdirectory.co.uk
  directory www.centralseek.com
  directory www.scoot.co.uk
  directory www.thomweb.co.uk/uk.thomw/index.htm
  directory www.yell.com
  Excite www.webtop.com
  n/a www.abacho.co.uk
  n/a www.mirago.co.uk
  n/a www.ochayethenoo.com (Scotland! :-)
  n/a www.searchuk.com
  n/a www.selu.co.uk
  n/a www.SgtSearch.co.uk
  n/a www.slinkyslate.co.uk
  n/a www.sparksearch.co.uk
  n/a www.ukindex.co.uk
  n/a www.ukplus.com
  n/a www.uksearcher.co.uk
  n/a www.uksearcher.com (not the same as the above)
  n/a www.wotbox.com

My thanks to Erica Brewer for the list of Australian search engines.

There is frames-based site listing a large number of international search engines at http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html. This site displays the logos (as
links) of each engine by country, making some of the pages a bit slow to load.

There is also http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/ which claims to list engines at
149 countries round the world. Again it displays logos.



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