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SearchPedia: A List of 250+ Search Engines

An Exhaustive List of All Search Engines from the Dawn of the Internet

Since the dawn of the Internet Era, we have been flooded with an ocean of information. But without a good search engine, this ocean is useless.

Search Engines have gone through a great journey, we saw a lot of them, some came and went, and some stay to this date.

Here is an incomplete, but a big list of search engines. If you find something wrong or missing, then shoot your suggestions in the comments.

We have categorized the search engines according to their use-cases. Enjoy!

All-Purpose Search Engines

Google: Well, probably you used this for coming to this article. The world’s most popular search engine. Visit: http://www.google.com

Bing Search: Microsoft’s entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never. Visit: http://www.bing.com

Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen NetRatings report. Visit: http://www.yahoo.com

AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 — Yahoo technology powers AltaVista. Visit: http://www.altavista.com

Cuil: Cuil was a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the ‘Google Killer’ was launched in July 2008 and claimed to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of MS. Now defunct. Visit: http://www.cuil.com

Excite: Now an Internet portal was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90’s dotcoms. Visit: http://www.excite.com

Go.com: The Walt Disney Group’s search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly! Visit: http://www.go.com

HotBot: It was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. Visit: http://www.hotbot.com

AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. Visit: http://www.alltheweb.com

Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin Visit: http://www.galaxy.com

search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official. Visit: http://search.aol.com

Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search): Microsoft’s web search engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer web browser. Visit: http://www.live.com

Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix. Visit: http://www.lycos.com

GigaBlast: It was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages. Visit: http://www.gigablast.com

Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applications run their own search. Visit: http://www.alexa.com

Accounting

IFAC.com: For resources and information on IFRS and Accounting.

Bit Torrent

Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over 1,800,000 active torrents. Visit: http://btjunkie.org

Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by CRIA. Visit: http://www.demonoid.com

FlixFlux: From its website, “The ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with film information, making it easy to find new film releases.” Visit: http://www.flixflulx.com

isoHunt: a comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, P2P file search, and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per month. Visit: http://isohunt.com/

Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org — a search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database, over 4 Billion downloads. Visit: http://www.mininova.com

The Pirate Bay (aka “TPB”): Based in Sweden where torrent trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is clearly labeled. Visit: http://thepiratebay.org

TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire’s feed into its front page. Visit: http://www.torrentspy.com

Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable portal. Visit: http://www.torrentz.com

Blog

Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere, sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa. Visit: http://www.amatomu.com

Bloglines: It is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005. Visit: http://www.bloglines.com/

Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search

BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. It currently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with 275.6million posts. Visit: http://www.blogscope.net

IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs. Visit: http://www.icerocket.com

Sphere: It connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web. Visit: http://www.sphere.com

Technorati: It catalogs over 112 million weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its byline of “What’s percolating in blogs now”. A supporter and contributor to open source software.

AR/VR

Blippar: A search engine(2011–18) based on AR. Now defunct. Visit: https://www.blippar.com/

SVRF: A search engine for AR/VR content. Visit: https://www.svrf.com

Books

FreeBookSearch.net — Comprehensive book searching portal with more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books. Visit: http://www.freebooksearch.net

Google Book Search: The power of Google to find books. Google’s entry will not let you see full text if the copyright is still active in your jurisdiction. Visit: http://books.google.com

Pdf Drive: The Search engine for PDF files(mainly eBooks). Visit: http://pdfdrive.net

Business

Alibaba.com Claims to be the world’s largest database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a marketplace of export and import, offers search, company directory, catalog, trade leads and more. Visit: http://www.alibaba.com

Bankersalmanac.com: It provides intelligent reference data solutions to the banking industry for payments, due diligence, risk assessment and financial research. Visit: http://www.bankersalmanac.com

business.com: contains more than 400,000 listings within about 65,000 categories. Search results are preceded by four types of paid links. Visit: http://www.business.com

Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company, maintains a database of over 23 million companies. Some information is provided free, other information is available to paid subscribers. Good for company stock information. Visit: http://www.hoovers.com

Kompass: 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive names. A guide for worldwide sourcing. Visit: http://www.kompass.com

Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the “world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information”. A searchable archive of newspapers, public records & more. Visit: http://www.lexisnexis.com

ThomasNet: Powered by the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (The Big Green Books published since 1898). Catalogs over 650,000 American companies in 67,000 categories. Visit: http://www.thomasnet.com

Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number of tools for searching email addresses. Find current, former email addresses, extract them from the web. Visit: http://www.email-search.org

Nicado: Free to register, Search email addresses. The Nicado search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an email address or telephone number. Visit: http://www.nicado.net

TEK: This search engine is an email-based search engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to search the Web using only email. It is intended to be used by people with low internet connectivity. Visit: http://tek.sourceforge.net/

Enterprise

AskMeNow: S3 — Semantic Search Solution for mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a consumer mobile search utilizing proprietary technology & natural language based interaction. Visit: http://www.askmenow.com

Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly Verity), Ultraseek Visit: http://www.autonomy.com

Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation. Dieselpoint provides an advanced full-text search with data navigation capability. It gives users highly relevant results not possible with either traditional search engines or SQL databases. Visit: http://www.dieselpoint.com

dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web. dtSearch provides simple to use but very powerful tools which create and maintain full-text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes of text can be searched. Visit: http://www.dtsearch.com

Endeca: Endeca’s search and information access solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and understand information. This is the Guided Navigation experience. Visit: http://www.endeca.com

Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead — Internet search engine, image search engine, video search engine … WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » · Advanced search. 8 billion pages indexed to date. Visit: http://www.exalead.com

Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer in developing semantic technologies to understand and manage unstructured information. Expert System’s semantic approach enables rapid classification of information. Visit: http://www.expertsystem.net

Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) Visit: http://www.fastsearch.com/

Funnelback: It is an Internet and Enterprise search engine company offering a suite of search solutions, hosted solution for the web and a fully customizable enterprise solution for searching behind the firewall. Visit: http://www.funnelback.com

Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for employees to find information inside your organization as it is to find information on google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance. Visit: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/

Microsoft’s SharePoint Search Services: Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architecture with Windows Search. Visit: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx

Northern Light Search: Search articles from over 800 online news feeds and over 1,000 industry authority blogs. Visit: http://www.northernlight.com/nlsearch.html

Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions supporting +/- 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. Visit: http://www.opentext.com/

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. Visit: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/index.html

SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large collections of documents. Visit: http://help.sap.com/search/sap_trex.jsp

TeraText Suite: Most data resides in semi-structured, primarily textual documents, not in structured, organizational repositories. Teratext is designed for text-rich data repositories. Visit: http://www.saic.com/products/software/teratext/

Vivisimo: A Clustering Engine developed by scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic knowledge to find relationships between search terms and bring them to light. (Web search: Clusty) Visit: http://www.vivisimo.com

ZyIMAGE: Information Access Platform for government and corporates. It does capture, archiving, searching, security, and context-specific content-management. Visit: http://www.zylab.com/

Forum

Omgili (Oh My God, I Love It!): Find out what people are saying. Personal experiences, solutions to problems, ideas, and opinions. Visit: http://www.omgili.com

Games

Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any game. Visit: http://www.cheatsearch.org

Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search. Visit: http://www.genieknows.com

Wazap: It is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site that distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads, and reviews. Visit: http://www.wazap.com

Human Search

ChaCha Search: It is a search engine that pays human “guides” to answer questions for users. This is a technique known as social searching. Visit: http://www.chacha.com

Eurekster: It is a New Zealand company, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis (search+wicki). Visit: http://www.eurekster.com

Mahalo.com: It is a web directory (or human search engine) — the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines by tracking and building hand-crafted results for searches. Visit: http://www.mahalo.com

Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their search results. Visit: http://www.rollyo.com

Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you create while searching and finding information on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share your “search trails”. Easier searching of the “deep web”. Visit: http://trexy.com/

Wink: Wink People Search: Over 333,304,647 people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more. Visit: http://www.wink.com

Decentralized

Quasar: An Open, Decentralized, Anonymous search engine on IPFS. Visit: https://clusterlabs.io/quasar/

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. Visit: https://yacy.net

Desearch: A search engine for crypto related stuff. Visit: https://desearch.com/

Ipfs-search: Another search engine on IPFS. Visit: https://ipfs-search.com/

Country-Specific

Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence. In addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches and its signature “SuperTarget” feature. Partnered with China Daily, a large Chinese portal.

Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly organized directory of Filipino websites. Visit: http://www.alleba.com

Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. Ansearch Ltd is involved in various online media activities, including the Ansearch.com.au search engine and the Soush online media network Visit: http://www.ansearch.com.au

Araby: Middle East — Arabic language search engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which owns the world’s largest online Arab community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only) Visit: http://www.araby.com/

Baidu: China — The Google of China, Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market. Visit: http://www.baidu.com

Daum: Korea — Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea which offers many Internet services including search, a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping, and news. Visit: http://www.daum.net

Guruji.com: India — an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context. Visit: http://www.guruji.com

goo: Japan — an Internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites. goo is operated by the Japanese telecom giant NTT. Visit: http://www.goo.ne.jp

Miner.hu: Hungary — a vertical search engine for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian content on the internet. Miner.hu indexes about 129.000 blogs. Visit: http://www.miner.hu

Najdi.si: Slovenia — a Slovenian search engine and web portal created by Interseek. It’s the most visited website in Slovenia. It uses a technology created by Interseek written entirely in Java Visit: http://www.najdi.si

Naver: Korea — The undisputed number 1 search engine in Korea with over 16 million visitors and 1 billion pageviews per day. Visit: http://www.naver.com

Onet: Poland — Polish language web portal and search. Visit: http://www.onet.pl

Onkosh: Middle East — Arabic language search. Visit: http://www.onkosh.com

Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web search (Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory, media, e-commerce, and other services to the Russian-speaking websurfer. Visit: http://www.rambler.ru

Rediff: India — India’s leading internet portal for news, mail, messenger, entertainment, business, mobile, e-commerce, shopping, auctions, search, sports and more. Visit: http://www.rediff.com

SAPO: Portugal — Portuguese language search based in Portugal and focused on Portugal. Visit: http://www.sapo.pt

Search.ch: Switzerland — a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as a regional search engine, later many other services were added: phonebook, SMS service. Acquired by the Swiss Post. Visit: http://www.search.ch

Sesam: Norway, Sweden — Based in Norway and focused on Norway and Sweden. Visit: http://www.sesam.no

Walla!: Israel — Search the web in Hebrew with an Israel focus. Visit: http://www.walla.co.il/

Yandex: Russia — Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian search engine and one of the largest Russian Web portals. Yandex was launched in 1997. Visit: http://www.yandex.ru

Jobs

Bixee (India): Comprehensive job search for India. Visit: http://www.bixee.com

Career Builder: The career builder website. Visit: http://www.careerbuilder.com

Craig’s List: is a centralized network of online communities, with free classified ads (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums. Visit: http://www.craigslist.com

CV Fox: A search engine that is designed to hunt down and retrieve resumes (CV’s) from all over the Internet. Free to use, has become a popular tool with professional recruiters. Visit: http://www.cvfox.com

Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For technology experts in areas such as Information Technology (IT), software, high tech, security, biotech, and more. Recently purchased eFinancialCareers.com. Visit: http://www.dice.com

Eluta.ca (Canada) — High-paying jobs in Canada directly from employers’ websites. Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+ employers across Canada. Visit: http://www.eluta.ca

Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your resume, research careers at featured companies, compare salaries and get career advice on Yahoo! HotJobs. Visit: http://www.hotjobs.com

Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the first Korean matchmaking site between job seekers and companies and claims the first Korean Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998). Visit: http://www.incruit.com

Indeed.com: A job ‘meta-search’ that scours job boards, newspapers and multiple sources with one search interface. Visit: http://www.indeed.com

Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish team of MBA’s, Poland’s leading job portal. Partially owned by European Media Group “Orkla Press” from Scandinavia. Visit: http://www.jobs.pl

JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific focused job and recruitment site with databases dedicated to each country in the Asia/Pacific region. Visit: http://www.jobsdb.com

JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European job site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on European jobs with branches in a number of European countries. Visit: http://www.jobpilot.com

Jobserve: UK based job search focused originally on IT Contracting work, but now covering multiple areas. Resume database, a large number of job postings. Visit: http://www.jobserve.com

Monster.com: The world’s largest resume database and online job search. Visit: http://www.monster.com

Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job search engine. Visit: http://www.naukri.com

Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows you to search jobs worldwide. Visit: http://www.recruit.net

SimplyHired.com: Search over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs sites to find a job you love. Visit: http://www.simplyhired.com

StepStone (Europe): European online recruitment site based in Scandinavia with operations and subsidiaries throughout Europe. Visit: http://www.stepstone.com

TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for professional jobs in the most comprehensive source of $100K+ jobs on the internet. Visit: http://www.theladders.com

Legal

Canadian Law List: List of Canadian lawyers. Visit: http://www.canadianlawlist.com

Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company Visit: http://www.lawyers.com

FindLaw: Search FindLaw’s database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your area. All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by Subject Area. Visit: http://www.lawyers.findlaw.com

The Lawyers’ List: Search for lawyers all across the United States. Visit: http://www.thelawyerlist.net

LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only. Visit: http://www.lexis.com

Martindale.com and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit: http://www.martindale.com

QuickLaw: LexisNexis owned portal for searching for lawyers and things legal (Canada) Visit: http://www.lexisnexis.ca/

Maps

Géoportail: French Geographic portal. French language only. Visit: http://www.geoportail.com

Google Maps: Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States as well as other countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. Visit: http://www.googlemaps.com

MapQuest (AOL) was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons & became an independent company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc. Visit: http://www.mapquest.com

Michelin (Via Michelin): The European map specialists’ webpage includes standard map features with good European coverage. Visit: http://www.viamichelin.com

Windows Live Maps: Enter an address, click enter… be sure to check out “Bird’s Eye View”. You can see a close-up aerial view of nearly any US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing. Visit: http://maps.live.com

Yahoo Maps: Maps, directions, reverse-direction satellite view but no ‘bird’s-eye-view’. Visit: http://maps.yahoo.com

Medical

Bioinformatic Harvester: From the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic Harvester crawls and crosslinks dozens of bioinformatic sites and serves 10’s of thousands of pages daily. Visit: http://harvester.fzk.de/harvester/

Entrez (Pubmed): The life sciences search engine. Visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery

EB-Eye — EMBL-EBI’s (European Bioinformatics Institute): Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI’s data resources. Visit: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

GoPubMed: Knowledge-based: GO — GeneOntology — Searching sorted — Social network and folksonomy for sciences. Visit: http://www.gopubmed.com

Healia: The health search engine. From the site, “The high quality and personalized health search engine”. Visit: http://www.healia.com

KMLE (King’s Medical Library Engine): Full American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary comprehensive resource including tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and abbreviation guides. Visit: http://www.kmle.com

MeSH — Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed): Knowledge-based. Visit: http://www.meshpubmed.com

SearchMedica: Professional Medical Search Visit: http://www.searchmedica.com

WebMD: A source for health information, a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, and a place to store personal medical information. The leading US Health portal, it scores over 40 million hits per month. Visit: http://www.webmd.com

MetaSearch

Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer. Visit: http://www.brainboost.com

Clusty: The clustering search engine powered by Vivisimo. Visit: http://www.clusty.com

Dogpile: Brings together searches from the top search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more. Visit: http://www.dogpile.com

Excite: Now an Internet portal was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90’s dotcoms. Visit: http://www.excite.com

HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. Visit: http://www.hotbot.com

Info.com: Metasearch bringing together results from the top search engines. Visit: http://www.info.com

ixquick: Eliminate Big Brother! The Ixquick metasearch engine permanently deletes all personal search details gleaned from its users. Based in the Netherlands, results come from 11 search engines. Visit: http://www.ixquick.com/

Kayak: Metasearch for travel — search 140 travel sites all at once for the best deals and buy tickets and make reservations direct. Visit: http://www.kayak.com

Krozilo is a virtual web browser, similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses AJAX and DHTML, so does not require installation. Visit: http://www.krozilo.com

Mamma: “The Mother of All Search Engines” — was one of the web’s first metasearch engines (1996). Now owned by Copernic Inc. of Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2 search engine. Visit: http://www.mamma.com

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. Visit: http://www.metacrawler.com

MetaLib is a federated search system developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers, and the web. Visit: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/MetaLibOverview

Mobissimo.com is a travel meta-search website. Like other travel meta-search websites, Mobissimo does not sell directly to the consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a referral fee. Visit: http://www.mobissimo.com

Myriad Search: Ad-free search lets users select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! Select search depth and place a bias on the search results from the major search engines. Visit: http://www.myriadsearch.com

Sidestep: Searches over 200 travel-related websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare. Find cheap airfares, discount hotels, car rentals and cruise deals to popular travel destinations worldwide. Visit: http://www.sidestep.com

Surfwax offers a variety of tools for finding, saving, and sharing information on the Internet, including Nextaris, the law-article research site LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax Scholar services. Visit: http://www.surfwax.com

Turbo10.com is a metasearch engine which uncovers information in the Invisible Web. Turbo10 can access information from 800 online databases and searches 10 databases simultaneously. Visit: http://www.turbo10.com

WebCrawler was used to build the first publicly-available full-text index of a subset of the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines. Visit: http://www.webcrawler.com

MultiMedia

YouTube: Owned by Google, the web’s largest media site. This search will search through the videos of YouTube only. Visit: http://www.youtube.com

blinkx: Over 18 million hours of video. Search it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine searching the media files of sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and more. Visit: http://www.blinkx.com

FreeBookSearch.net: The famous book searching portal also searches for audiobooks. This same search will also find MP3 files. Visit: http://www.blinkx.com

SoundCloud: A famous platform for music; mainly for upcoming artists. Visit: http://soundcloud.com/

FindSounds: Search engine to find any kind of sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF, AU — search by sample rate and quality… a great place to find those sound effects. Visit: http://www.findsounds.com

Tenor: A great Search Engine for GIFS. Visit: http://tenor.com

Unsplash: A search engine for Free, awesome pics. Visit: https://unsplash.com/

MetaCafe: Search videos hosted by MetaCafe. If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid for videos — the more viewers, the more cash. Visit: http://www.metacafe.com

Musgle: Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a clever boolean search string into Google to return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files. Visit: http://www.musgle.com

PBS provides resources to air its standard programming & also provides its audience with multiple online archives of specific video programs. All video archives can be searched for any spoken word pronounced in them. Visit: http://www.pbs.com

Picsearch: Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures. Visit: http://www.picsearch.com

Podscope: “Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!”. Finds audio and video files based on actual content! Visit: http://www.podscope.com

SpeechBot was a search engine for audio & video. It was created by HP Research, but unfortunately, is now offline. Visit: #

Singing Fish: An audio and video search engine, now AOL media search. Visit: http://www.singingfish.com

StrimOO: a Video search engine. Find videos on Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with one search. Visit: http://www.singingfish.com

TVEyes: TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable by keyword, phrase or topic — just as you would use a search engine for text. TVEyes is the first company to deliver real-time TV and Radio search. Visit: http://www.tveyes.com

Veveo / VTap: a video search platform for mobile phones. Vtap is an offering from Veveo and it currently works on Apple iPhones as well as Microsoft Mobile-powered phones. Visit: http://www.veveo.net

Web-Cam-Search.com: Search and hack nearly a million webcams for free on the net. This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover cams — public & supposedly ‘private’. :-) Visit: http://www.web-cam-search.com

News

Google News: News by Google. Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously. Visit: http://www.news.google.com

MagPortal: Find individual articles from many freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. You can mark articles or find similar articles with several useful tools. Visit: http://www.magportal.com

NewsLookup.com: Search thousands of news sites by the source region and media type. News headlines updated continuously. Visit: http://www.newslookup.com

LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only. Visit: http://www.nexis.com

Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. It was created by the founders of the Open Directory Project. Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and Gannett own 75% of Topix.net. Visit: http://www.topix.net

Yahoo News: Use Yahoo! News to find breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on top stories, world, business, politics… Visit: http://news.yahoo.com/

OpenSource

DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open source web-based search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system. Visit: http://www.dataparksearch.com

Egothor is an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB, etc. Visit: http://www.egothor.org/

gonzui is a source code search engine for accelerating open source software development — a source code search engine that covers vast quantities of open source codes available on the Internet. Visit: http://gonzui.sourceforge.net/

Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. Their website claims, “We want to help fix search.” Visit: http://www.grub.org/

ht://Dig is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. ht://Dig is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or website. Visit: http://www.htdig.org/

iSearch: PHP search engine allows you to build a searchable database for your website. Visitors can search for keywords and a list of any pages that match is returned to them. Visit: http://www.isearch.com

Apache Lucene: It is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Full-text search & cross-platform. Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download. Visit: http://lucene.apache.org/

Lemur Toolkit is an open-source toolkit designed to facilitate research in language modeling and information retrieval. Lemur supports a wide range of industrial and research language applications. Visit: http://www.lemurproject.org/

mnoGoSearch: Web search engine software. Visit: http://www.mnogosearch.org/

Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Not only does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as a personal search. (Namazu means “Catfish” in Japanese.) Visit: http://www.namazu.com

Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine based on Lucene Java for the search and index component. The fetcher (“robot” or “web crawler”) has been written from scratch solely for this project. Visit: http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/

OpenFTS: OpenSource Full-Text Search is an advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data and relevance ranking for database searching. Visit: http://openfts.sourceforge.net

Sciencenet: For scientific knowledge based on YaCy Technology. Current search engines are based on popularity and/or sponsored links. This makes it difficult for scientists/students/teachers. Sciencenet is the solution. Visit: http://liebel.fzk.de/collaborations/sciencenet-search-engine-based-on-yacy-p2p-technology

Sphinx is a free software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL and PostgreSQL natively. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Visit: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

SWISH-Enhanced (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans — Enhanced) is a fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system for indexing collections of Web pages or other text files. Visit: http://swish-e.org/

Terrier is software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. A modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval applications. Visit: http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier/

Wikia Search: Jimmy Wales and Wikia aim to create an open source Internet search engine, to which the community can contribute. Visit: http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It’s written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!) Visit: http://www.xapian.org

YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy installation can store more than 10 million documents, but in a community of search peers, YaCy can provide a search index of unlimited size. Visit: http://www.yacy.net

Zettair is a compact and fast text search engine designed and written by the Search Engine Group at RMIT University. It was formerly known as Lucy. Visit: http://www.zettair.com

People

AnyWho.com: Part of AT&T, mostly a telephone directory and reverse phone number directory. Visit: http://www.anywho.com

Ex.plode.us: Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use. Visit: http://ex.plode.us

Finding-People.com: Finding-People.com is the best place to start a people search, as they have a huge number of tools all in one place to find whomever you seek. Visit: http://ex.plode.us

InfoSpace: From their webpage, “The yellow pages and white pages directory from InfoSpace is the most convenient way to find people and businesses.” Visit: http://www.infospace.com

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site used for professional networking. As of March 2008, it had more than 20 million registered users. An easy way to search for business people or professionals. Visit: http://www.linkedin.com

Spock advertises itself as, “The world’s most accurate people search. Sign up to find people you know.” Visit: http://www.spock.com

Wink is a free people search engine that helps you find people at social networks, blogs, and across the Web. Visit: http://www.wink.com

Zabasearch: Honestly free people search. All US postal addresses & telephone numbers revealed free. 3-times more listings than white pages phone directory. Visit: http://www.zabasearch.com

ZoomInfo: Founded in 1999, ZoomInfo is a Web-based service that extracts information about people and companies from millions of published resources. Visit: http://www.zoominfo.com

Question and Answer

Quora: One of the most popular question and answer platform and search engine. Visit: http://www.about.com

StackOverflow. One of the most popular programming QnA site. Visit: https://stackoverflow.com

StackExchange: QnA site for a diverse set of fields. Visit: https://stackexchange.com/

About.com. The majority of their results come from their own site. Used to be miningco.com. Visit: http://www.about.com

Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world’s leading publishers. Visit: http://www.Answers.com

Ask Jeeves was designed to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language. Ask.com was the first such commercial question-answering search engine for the Web. Visit: http://www.ask.com

AskMeNow: Questions answered from your mobile telephone. From their site, “We thought it would be cool if we could get simple answers from our phone anytime, anywhere — so we built AskMeNow.” Visit: http://www.askmenow.com

AskWiki Beta is a preliminary integration of a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions using information from Wikipedia articles. Visit: http://www.askwiki.com

Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer. Visit: http://www.brainboost.com

eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 140000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything” Visit: http://www.ehow.com

Lexxe processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions. Visit: http://www.lexxe.com

Lycos iQ is a community-driven “human search” site by Lycos Europe GmbH. Users on iQ can post questions and answers in a similar manner to sites such as Yahoo Answers, Google Answers, and Wondir.com. Visit: http://iq.lycos.co.uk/

Powerset is betting on the wisdom of the crowds with a new online community site called Powerset Labs. The company hopes the site will get people to help build and improve its search engine. Visit: http://www.powerset.com

Windows Live QnA: Ask any question and get answers from people in the know. Try it. Real answers. A little late to a crowded market, but Windows is there now too. Visit: http://qna.live.com/

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! that allows users to ask questions of other users and answer other users’ questions. Over 60 million users. Visit: http://answers.yahoo.com/

Real Estate

ForSaleByOwner.com: Search homes being sold by their owners without the intermediation of realtors — save on commission. Visit: http://www.forsalebyowner.com

Home.co.uk: Comprehensive Property Search for UK houses for sale, estate agents, house prices and guides on buying and selling property and mortgages advice. Visit: http://www.home.co.uk

Inman News: Real Estate News search. Visit: http://www.inman.com

Properazzi.com is an online real estate search engine. Launched in March of 2007 by Yannick Laclau, it allows users to search and view property listings for Europe. Visit: http://www.properazzi.com

Realtor.com: The official site of the National Association of Realtors. Search listed properties all across America. Visit: http://www.realtor.com

Rightmove: Find property online, search a wide range of property for sale in various areas in the UK, London and Overseas with Rightmove. Visit: http://www.rightmove.co.uk

Trulia: Find property online, agents can list their properties free, a robust real estate portal for homebuyers and sellers. Visit: http://www.trulia.com

Zillow provides free real estate information including homes for sale, comparable homes, historical sales, home valuation tools and more. Visit: http://www.zillow.com

Schools and Colleges

The College Search Engine.com: Searches the websites of colleges and universities worldwide, not just the USA. If it is on a university website somewhere, this search engine will find it. Visit: http://www.thecollegesearchengine.com

Skoolz.org: Search colleges and universities. Use this search to search only the websites of colleges — to find courses, information, professors, curricula, etc. Visit: http://www.skoolz.org

Google University Search allows you to search a specific site — one school at a time. The list of schools is comprehensive. Skoolz searches them all at once, Google University Search allows them to be searched one at a time. Visit: http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Scientific

Scirus: The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. Over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count. Search journals, scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents, more… Visit: http://www.scirus.com

Shopping

Amazon: The online retail Giant. Visit: https://amazon.com

Google Product Search: (Formerly Froogle) use Google to search for the best deals on products when you are shopping. Visit: http://www.google.com/products

Kelkoo: A Yahoo! company. Also powers Yahoo! Shopping in several countries. Visit: http://www.kelkoo.com

MSN Shopping: Comparison shopping made easy: Offering 33,155,627 products from over 8,000 stores — all in one place — and over 470 pages of shopping advice to help you make the right choices. Visit: http://shopping.msn.com/

MySimon: Price Comparison Shopping Visit: http://www.mysimon.com

Nextag Comparison Shopping. Product directory and search. Shows popular searches — what others are searching for. Visit: http://www.nextag.com

PriceGrabber.com: “Comparison Shopping beyond compare” Comparison shopping and search engine. Visit: http://www.pricegrabber.com

PriceRunner: Price Comparison website and search engine Visit: http://www.pricerunner.com

RetailMeNot: From the people who brought you “BugMeNot”, check here before you buy for discount coupons and promo codes. Why pay retail when you can find coupons at RetailMeNot? Visit: http://www.retailmenot.com

Shopping.com: A shopping directory and search owned by eBay. Visit: http://www.shopping.com

Shopwiki: Shopping directory and search cataloging some 241,416,304 products, and counting… Visit: http://www.shopwiki.com

Shopzilla (Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers find, compare and buy anything, sold by virtually anyone, anywhere. 20 million unique visitors according to ComScore. BizRate reviews stores and products. Visit: http://www.shopzilla.com

TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine as opposed to a comparison search. The search database includes over 150 Million products from over 500,000 online stores. Visit: http://www.thefind.com

Source Code

Google Codesearch: Searches public source code using a variety of parameters. Visit: http://www.google.com/codesearch

JavaScriptSearch.org searches for javascripts, ajax, DHTML and JavaScript snippets from all over the web. The fastest way to find a JavaScript. Useful for web developers and webmasters. Visit: http://www.javascriptsearch.org

JExamples analyzes the source code of Java open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat, and Batik and loads them into a java examples database for easy searching. Enter the name of a Java API Class and click Search. Visit: http://www.jexamples.com

Koders Searces some 766,893,913 lines of open source code. Securely searches private source code. Create and share a custom code index that is easily searched from Visual Studio, Eclipse or any browser. Visit: http://www.koders.com

Krugle Code Search Engine can turn your company’s code and related development assets into a searchable, shareable asset. Visit: http://www.krugle.com

PHP Classes Repository: Find the PHP class you need at PHP Classes. The leading PHP site for coders. Everything PHP! Visit: http://www.phpclasses.org/

Usenet

Google Groups: Formerly Deja News, Google Groups lets you post on usenet forums without using a mail client via their easy-to-use web interface. Visit: http:groups.google.com

Visual Search Engines

Grokker visual Meta Search Engine lets you choose which sites to search and presents the results in multiple views — outline view, map view. Visit: http://www.grokker.com

Kartoo visual Meta Search Engine searches multiple search engines and presents its results in a visual map. Visit: http://www.kartoo.com

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About

YouTube is a video hosting and sharing website created in February 2005. With eight hundred million unique visitors a month, it is one of the most trafficked websites on the internet along with Facebook and Google.

History

Although YouTube is often considered one of the early trendsetters in the social media game, other video-hosting platforms like Metacafe and Vimeo had been in existence prior to the launch of YouTube in 2005. According to one of the co-founders Jawed Karim, YouTube was originally envisioned as the video version of the beauty rating site Hot or Not, which has been also credited as the source of inspiration for the social networking service Facebook.

The site was founded by three former employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim on February 14th, 2005 and the first YouTube video titled “Me at the zoo” was uploaded on April 23rd, which featured one of the co-founders Jawed Karim in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. The beta version of the site became publicly available in May of that year, followed by its official launch in November 2005.

The registered userbase continued to grow rapidly in the following months. By July 2006, the company revealed an impressive record of 65,000 new uploads and 100 million video views per day. In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock; the deal was finalized in mid-November.

On March 31st, 2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface and increasing the time users spend on the site.

In November 2011, the Google+ social networking site was integrated directly with YouTube and the Chrome web browser, allowing YouTube videos to be viewed from within the Google+ interface (shown below, left). In December 2011, YouTube launched a new version of the site interface (shown below, right), with the video channels displayed in a central column on the home page, similar to the news feeds of social networking sites.

On June 5th, 2013, Google rolled out the new “One Channel” interface for YouTube, enabling all users to customize their channels with a cover photograph and an introductory video. According to Google’s official blog post, the “One Channel” could lead to an increase in getting new subscribers and channel visits.

2017 Redesign

On August 29th, 2017, YouTube redesigned its website, tweaking the logo, interface, and typeface of the website. The logo has been tweaked such that the brand’s iconic red play button is in front of the word “YouTube,” rather than have the word “Tube” highlighted in red. The company also announced several new features on its blog. New features include the ability to swipe to previous and next videos on the site’s mobile app, allowing mobile users to change the speed of a video like desktop users can, and double-tapping to fast-forward or rewind a video.

YouTube Music Awards

On October 1st, 2013, Google announced its plan to host the first YouTube Music Awards, a live-stream ceremony event to recognize and highlight the most influential musicians of the year. The event, which is to be held at Pier 36 in New York City on November 3rd, will be co-hosted by actor-musicians Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts and feature live performances by Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire and Eminem, as well as five music events that will be simulcast from Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, London and Rio de Janeiro. On October 22nd, YouTube unveiled the list of nominees in six categories for the inaugural event, along with an introductory video in which the co-host Reggie Watts asks the viewers to vote for the winning acts (shown below).

Epic Rap Battles of History – “Obama vs Romney”

Demi Lovato – “Heart Attack”

Girls’ Generation – “I Got a Boy”

Justin Bieber (ft. Nicki Minaj) – “Beauty and a Beat”

Lady Gaga – “Applause”

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Same Love”

Miley Cyrus – “We Can’t Stop”

One Direction – “Best Song Ever”

PSY – “Gentleman”

Selena Gomez – “Come & Get It”

Kendrick Lamar

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Naughty Boy

Passenger

Rudimental

Anamanguchi -- “Endless Fantasy”

Atoms For Peace – “Ingenue”

Bat For Lashes – “Lilies”

DeStorm – “See Me Standing”

Toro Y Moi – “Say That”

Google+ Comments Update

On September 24th, 2013, the YouTube Official Blog announced the beta launch of an improved commenting system that is more closely integrated with the Google+ social networking service, which was subsequently implemented across-the-board on November 6th. Upon its release, YouTube’s new commenting system was instantly met by criticisms and backlash from the community, mainly for requiring a Google+ account to comment on any video and prioritizing the visibility of comments made by friends on Google+ without having established a significant user base.

On November 7th, 2013, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted a comment on the site asking why the Google social networking service was required for commenting. Throughout the day, a number of video bloggers uploaded their own response videos to address the intergration issues in the new commenting system, most notably YouTubers Cr1TiK (shown below, top, left), somegreybloke (shown below, top, right), Jon (shown below, bottom, left) and Gopher (shown below, bottom, right).

Meanwhile, some YouTubers created short animations to vent their frustration with YouTube’s Google+ commenting system (shown below).

On February 6th, 2017, YouTuber BlackScreenTV discovered a major glitch on the site that counted each unsubscription from a channel as two, which could be easily exploited by trolls to diminish the audience base of popular YouTube channels. To demonstrate the glitch, BlackScreenTV started a livestream session showing the drastic decrease in subscribers on some of YouTube’s most popular channels, including PewDiePIe, H3h3Productions, The Young Turks, LeafyIsHere and Keemstar, as well as iDubbbz and Tana Mongeau, who had recently engaged each other in a feud over their use of a racist slur against black people.

By February 8th, YouTuber BlackScreenTV’s livestream video had reached the front page of Reddit and 4chan’s /pol/ board, further inviting a massive influx of trolls who would repeatedly subscribe and unsubscribe from channels in order to bring the counter down below zero. As a result, the subscription base for a number of popular YouTube channels targeted in the raid dipped into negative numbers.

Later that day, YouTube tweeted an official response explaining that the malfunction was prompted by an update implemented on February 6th and the company is working to fix the glitch. By 4:00 p.m. (EST) on February 9th, several tech news outlets reported that the glitch in the subscription counter appears to have been fixed.

Extremist Video Prohibition

On August 1st, 2017, YouTube announced that they would implement a feature where extremist and supremacist videos that technically did not violate any rules would be put in a “limited state,” meaning they are hidden and cannot make money. An automated system identifies and flags such videos. In their blog post, YouTube announced that “over 75%” of videos of this nature were removed before being flagged by a user. The system, however, is imperfect. On August 24th, YouTuber Philip DeFranco went into some of the problems with the algorithm, including that the algorithm deleted videos dedicated to the war in Syria. The video has over 1 million views (shown below). Also on the 24th, Bloomberg posted an article about the new restrictions.

Features

The basic features of YouTube consists of uploading videos, watching videos uploaded by other users and interacting with other users via comments and response videos. Unregistered visitors can watch videos without ever signing up for an account, but the registration is required for uploading videos and commenting on other uploads. YouTube initially allowed users to upload long-format videos, but later implemented a ten-minute length limit on all uploads in March 2006 after learning that the majority of videos exceeding the ten minute mark were unauthorized or copyright-infringing materials such as TV show episodes and films.

In addition to the basic functions of a video-streaming platform, YouTube offers a variety of optional tools to improve the viewing experience, such as closed captioning services, automatic speech recognition, in-video annotations and 3D anaglyphic playback.

Embeddable Videos

The near-ubiquitous presence of YouTube videos on the Internet can be credited to its easy video embedding feature, which allows users to copy and paste the video player object into almost any blog or website that supports HTML.

Interactions

Registered users (sometimes referred to as YouTubers) of the site can interact with others through a number of different channels, from private messaging and wall posts on the channel page to comments in the video pages and response videos that can be linked to the referenced video. Users can also rank a video or a video comment through an upvoting / downvoting system.

Shows & Rentals

YouTube also runs a section called “Shows,” which allows major U.S. entertainment studios and distributors to upload full-length films and TV episodes to the site with advertisement options. In January 2010, YouTube introduced an online film rentals service offering more than 6,000 films, which is available only to users in the US, Canada and the UK as of July 2012.

Easter Eggs

Snake Game: In July 2010, YouTube released an easter egg feature with its new video player which enables users to launch an impromptu game of Snake by holding down the left and up arrow keys during pause and playback. This feature only works on YouTube video pages without any annotations or advertisements.

Snowflake Animation: In December 2011, YouTube added a snowflake button as a holiday special easter egg on its video player. Upon clicking, the feature would trigger animated snowflakes to fall from the top of the video.

500 Error Message: In 2010, YouTube began displaying a 500 Internal Server Error message that read “500 Internal Server Error: Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information” followd by a random code.

Nyan Cat Progress Bar: In June 2011, YouTube temporarily enabled a custom flash player for the original Nyan Cat video page, which displayed an animated miniature Nyan Cat flying across the progress bar with a rainbow trail during playback.

The Wadsworth Parameter: In October 2011, YouTube employee and Redditor newtuber enabled the new video URL parameter “&wadsworth=1,” which can be suffixed to any YouTube video URL to load the video at 30% of the total length in reference to The Wadsworth Constant.

Self-Subscription: In 2012, YouTube began displaying a mouseover error message that read “No need to subscribe to yourself!” when a user attempted to subscribe to one’s own channel.

Psy Character Sprite: In December 2012, YouTube added an animated character sprite of Psy doing the horse dance on the Gangnam Style video page to commemorate the unprecedented milestone of passing 1 billion views on the site.

Harlem Shake Search Results: In March 2013, YouTube introduced an easter egg for the search option in which typing in “do the harlem shake” would trigger various components of the search results page to wobble in the style of Harlem Shake dancers.

VHS Tape Mode: In April 2013, YouTube enabled a VHS tape emulator button on a limited selection of videos in homage to the 57th anniversary of the first commercially available videocassette recorder (VCR). Upon clicking, the video quality would be downgraded to match the aesthetics of VHS image resolution, such as white static lines, fuzzy grains, occasional vertical holds and even distortion of images when in pause mode.

On January 29th, 2013, the advertising industry news blog AdAge published an article reporting that YouTube has a plan to launch paid subscriptions for a select few channels in April. The article included a quote from a Google spokesperson, who stated that the company believed certain types of content require alternative payment models. On the following day, YouTuber PrettyMuchIt uploaded a video in support of the idea, asserting that paid subscriptions could provide users with more options and better content (shown below, left). Also on January 30th, YouTuber Lamarr Wilson uploaded a video in which he criticized the paid subscription model (shown below, right), arguing that no one should have to pay for content on the video-sharing site.

On May 9th, YouTube launched the pilot program for its paid subscription service, offering its users free trial access to premium content published by more than 50 channels for the first two weeks, after which a monthly fee ranging from $0.99 to $7.99 would be charged per subscription. In the coming days, the new service was reported on by Yahoo,CNN, The Wall Street Journal and CNET among many others. As of May 10th, there are 54 paid channels available, including Sesame Street, National Geographic, Rap Battle Network, Recipe.TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Impact

Since its launch and subsequent rise to prominence, YouTube has played an essential role in the creative process of internet memes in a multitude of ways, foremostly as the ground zero site of countless viral videos and spawning pool of user-generated videos, and secondly as the primary exchange ground for social commentaries and discussions on topical events. The site’s strong affinity with both amateur vloggers and mainstream media outlets also gave rise to an uncharted era of citizen journalism, public discourse and internet stardom, thus establishing itself as a hub site of user-generated content.

2013 YouTube Study

In June 2013, undergraduate media students at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois released a 175-page report on YouTube’s most popular content creators and their contributing factors. Conducted over the course of the Spring semester in 2013, the study analyzed the statistical data of YouTube’s 241 most viewed channels to deduce a number of commonly observed practices that may contribute to their online popularity. Among its key findings were:

All but one of YouTube’s top channels focus on producing non-serial, episodic videos, with MachinimaPrime being the sole exception that serializes its content with a consistent storyline.

The 58 percent majority of YouTube’s top channels do not use introductory clips or credit rolls in their videos. The median frequency of jump cuts is at around 9 cuts per minute, the median pace of narrative speech is 150 spoken words per minute, while the median word count in video description stands at around 56.5 words per video. All of these findings suggest the importance of brevity and search engine optimization.

Approximately 34 percent of the analyzed videos feature at least one other collaborator in the description; comedians have the higher rate of peer collaboration with 43 percent of videos being co-hosted or co-produced, while gamers rarely team up with only two percent of gaming videos produced as a result of collaboration.

The median video length for YouTube’s top channels is 4 minutes and 19 seconds (4:19); comedy videos have the shortest median video lengths at 3 minutes and 25 seconds (3:25), while fashion/beauty, news commentary and gaming videos have the longest median video lengths at 7 minutes, 44 seconds (7:44), 8 minutes and 55 seconds (8:55) and 9 minutes and 36 seconds (9:36) respectively.

The median number of subscribers for YouTube’s top channels is measured at around 1.23 million subscribers and the majority of the top ten channels are run by independent video-bloggers.

The median frequency of new release is at 1.25 videos per week, while the average number of videos uploaded in a week period is just short of three videos per week. Among the top content creators, gaming-related channels have the highest number of 8.31 videos uploaded per week, while comedy channels have the lowest cout of 1.23 videos uploaded per week.

Twitter is the primary means of distributing new video content for YouTube’s top channels. On average, YouTubers tweet 7.11 times a day and garner around 4.28 mentions per day.

Largely due to the broad range of content hosted on the site and its virtual monopoly over video hosting services, the scope of this section is limited to internet memes that have emerged as a result of interacting with other users or using a specific feature on the site. For more comprehensive listings of viral videos and catchphrases that have originated from YouTube, check out KYM Tag – Origin:YouTube. For an index of notable YouTube video bloggers and celebrities, browse KYM Tag – Origin:YouTube Category:Person.

One of the longest enduring mysteries of YouTube features has been the seemingly arbitrary view counter that gets stuck at 301 or 302, which soon became regarded as a positive sign that the video is undergoing a significant lift in viewership. The number 301 displayed under a video can be read as the minimum threshold of view-counts required to initiate a new counting method or “a statistical verification process” designed to filter out any counterfeit or invalid view counts from being taken into account.

YouTube Automatic Caption Fails

YouTube Automatic Caption Fails are the humorous, incorrect captions produced by Google’s automatic speech recognition technology for videos on YouTube. Both real and fake screenshots of particularly absurd automatic transcriptions are often posted on various sites.

Operation YouTube

Operation YouTube (also known as “YouTube Porn Day”) is a series of porn spamming raids launched by Anonymous which took place on the video sharing site in early June 2009.

I’m 12 Years Old and What is This?

“I’m 12 Years Old and What is This?”, also known as “I’m 12 and what is this?”, is a catchphrase typically used to react to something that is considered vulgar or outlandish, such as x-rated media. The comment was posted in a video titled “Jonas Brother Live On Stage” during Operation YouTube in May 2009, when 4chan users flooded the site with x-rated clips under the guise of popular teen idols like Lazy Town, Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus.

The Wadsworth Constant

The Wadsworth Constant is an Internet axiom which states that the first 30% of any video can be skipped because it contains no worthwhile or interesting information. This observation was named after Redditor Wadsworth, who defined the term in a discussion thread about how to properly fold a bed sheet.

X People Missed the Like Button

X People Missed the Like Button is a type of comment usually found on YouTube, in which the “x” represents the number of dislikes the video has accumulated at the time of the commenter’s viewing. The phrase can also be modified to take on a biased tone as to criticize the viewers who chose to dislike the video.

Am I Ugly?

“Am I Ugly?” is a YouTube trend in which adolescents upload videos of themselves asking for commenters to rate their physical attractiveness. In February of 2012, the phenomenon rose in visibility after news media began criticizing the trend as an unhealthy means of seeking approval.

Reply Girls

Reply Girls, often spelled “reply girl”, is an Internet slang term used to identify female YouTubers who mainly upload videos as a “reply” to an already popular or trending video in an attempt to capitalize on the high view counts. They typically use sexually suggestive thumbnails, often with prominently exposed cleavage, to gain views. Reply Girls seek to gain YouTube partnerships through high view counts, and then make/steal money for every video they produce.

Traffic

As of January 2012, YouTube has a Quantcast US score of 3, Alexa Global and US rank of 3, and Compete rank of 4. On January 23rd, 2012, YouTube announced that it was receiving an average of more than four billion views a day on both computers and mobile web, as well as an hourlong worth of footage uploaded per second. To better illustrate the vast numbers and statistics associated with YouTube videos, YouTube launched the site One Hour Per Second in December 2011.

Search Interest

Search queries for YouTube began to increase visibly in February 2006 and the total volume of online interest has been steadily on the rise ever since.

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