Vertical Search Engine resources
Popular Vertical Search Engines (VSEs)
- Looksmart
- Certainly one of the big players in this field; they offer 180+ vertical search sites with specialized content. They also provide applications to find, save and share articles - including Furl.net and FindArticles.com .
- Become.com
- A shopping site that provides a research service, comparison shopping service, news search, dynamic suggestions and other shopping-focused content and applications.
- Simply Hired
- A vertical search engine company building the largest online database of jobs on the planet. They provide deep filters for job search, resume submission, suggestions, and more.
- indeed
- A search engine for jobs - includes job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages.
- trulia
- Residential real estate search engine, that gathers data from real estate broker Web sites. Provides services to both end users and real estate professionals.
- Healthline
- Healthline searches the top health sites on the Web and puts the information into context. They also offer starting points for users who wish to browse health information online.
- Health site Guide
- Finds information from leading healthcare information websites. Community features allow users to review web sites and participate in forums.
- Kayak
- A meta-search engine that searches hundreds of travel sites to provide the widest possible choice of flights and prices.
- SideStep
- Searches more than 100 sites to find the Web's best travel bargains, with no service fees.
- Farecast
- Focused on airfare prediction - answers the question: should you buy now, or wait? Helps shoppers buy directly from airline sites.
- Centrro
- Provides information for financial products like loans and credit cards.
- Topix.net
- A vertical search engine for news. Users can search for news items based on both parameters (like zip code, date and source) and keyword search.
- Clusty
- A meta search engine that combines the results of several top search engines with "clustering" - grouping results into topics for better search and discovery.
- blinkx TV
- A search engine for audio, video, podcast, viral and tv content.
- Meevee
- TV programming search and discovery.
- Krugle
- A search engine that helps software developers find source code and technical information from open source repositories and from the web. Allows users to save, annotate and share search results with others.
- foodieview
- Allows you to search the major recipe sites and save the favorite ones, all in one place.
- FirstGov.gov
- The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
- GlobalSpec
- Vertical search company that serves the engineering, manufacturing and related scientific and technical market segments. Data includes proprietary and aggregated web-based content.
- Northern Light
- This company can build a custom "vertical industry search engine" for your website, by aggregating your internal content with internet web pages.
- Vortaloptics
- Vortaloptics builds custom search solutions for your site.
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