5 Industry Specific Search Engines

Posted in Internet, Web Search | June 6th, 2008

Some days back I have written one post for search engines for specific search queries. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live search is not always the right place to search information over the internet. Now I found 10 search engines that can be used to fins a new business product, services or information, places where to advertise. If you are looking for a general product then Google, Yahoo or Microsoft Live search is best suited for your search query otherwise if you are looking for a product that is targeted a particular business the choose any of the following search engines.

TopTenWholeSale.com

Looking for a wholesale provider for your retail business then you may find that TopTenWholeSale.com is best suited for you. Site is aimed to put all wholesalers together on to the single place, so when you search for a particular product you will find the wholesalers of that product not the product information. The site also offers news, a blog, directory listings, forums and classifieds, fulfilling Prescott’s goal to create not just a wholesale search site, but a wholesale portal.

Findlaw.com and Lawyers.com

Findlaw and Lawyers are made for the same purpose that they allow users to search attorneys by location and specialty. Both search engines offers the general search functionality, blog and message board. Findlaw has a very clean user interface as compared to Lawyers. One thing that I like about Findlaw is the Findlaw answers, which are missing in Lawyers.

USA.gov

This US government’s portal/ search engines give users to search businesses and nonprofit Websites by different categories. One area “Get It done online” is very useful if you want to do some government activities online.

SearchFinance.com

The name it self say all about the search engine. Search finance is basically a search engine for financial executives. There are a ton of browsing options: blogs, podcasts, events, Webcasts, magazines and alerts. Search results are particularly impressive. Directory matches pop up first, but you can also scroll over the results sources for more information on a particular company and choose to remove any "commercial" sources from your results.

Yahoo Local Search

Yahoo Local is the search engine that most of us know. Yahoo local allows you to search restaurants-and-nightclubs city guide mold to offer a number of business categories like health and beauty, automotive, and real estate–useful information whether you’re looking for professional service vendors in your neighborhood, a new bistro to take a client to, or a local advertising solution for your business

If you find some more search engines that can used to search a particular vertical the please let us know, I will include that search engine and I will also mention the contributor name

5 Responses to “5 Industry Specific Search Engines”

Pallab on June 6th, 2008 | 5:17 pm

Nice list of niche search engines.
Aseem Kishore on June 6th, 2008 | 8:33 pm

That’s a good list…have you heard of the new search from the guy who created Wikipedia? It’s called Wikia Search and looks pretty cool!
Manan on June 6th, 2008 | 9:13 pm

Well, Google too is coming out with it’s own Local Search engine, it has forwarded cards to most of the businesses who use their services to fill in keywords and they will be coming out with their own local search db, they have already done so for cinemas in India.
Yogesh Amberkar on June 7th, 2008 | 11:30 am

Oh great work. I was not aware at all about the exixstance of such specific search engines (except yahoo local search).
David Kraft on June 7th, 2008 | 12:55 pm

WTF ?
Google has ALWAYS BEEN LOCAL SEARCH -

“term” , zipcode

works every time, and you can even text the numberpad translation of “google” and it will answer back top responses.

Well, here is an actual description of the sms -
http://sms.google.com

What 1970’s internet on a C-64 are you working with anyway ?