Australia has a proud web history, and one key component is the search engine. yes, google reigns supreme, but for country-specific and niche searches, there are plenty of additional, lesser-known resources. In Australia, these search engines will help a searcher find everything from car rental information to Aussie-specific geography to health and beauty topics.

Australian search engines include:

• Web Wombat: automatically searches over 20 million websites in Australia based on the user’s search.
• Google Australia: functions exactly like the American Google version with extra features to search for images, videos and blogs.
• Yahoo! 7: Yahoo! search engine meant specifically for Australian users, with news and other updates posted on the main page.
• Sensis: Australian based search engine that searches pages from around the world or pages only in Australia.
• Bing: Microsoft's old "Live" engine, reborn, which promises more and better results than ever ...
• Ansearch: Australian based search engine that looks for images, video or the web and lists the more popular searches and search terms.
• Anzwers: shows the popular searches for the day, but also searches for terms through Australian and New Zealand websites.
• Alta Vista: search directory that searches Australian websites or through pages from around the world.
• Aus Everything: lets users search the web, search Australian pages or search worldwide.
• Australian Crawler: web crawler from Australia that searches all the major search engines at one time for the best results.
• Big Roo: Australian search engine that searches through over 200,000 businesses registered with them.
• Black Stump: searches through the Black Stump archives or lets users search worldwide.
• Click Find: commercial search engine that looks for businesses and organizations in Australia.
• eZilion Australia: web directory in Australia that categorizes things based on different topics such as health, shopping and travel, including car hire info.
• Lord Howe Island Crawler: web crawler that looks at the major search engines in Australia to find the top results.
• Mikojo: lets users search the web or look for images and videos, not based in Australia, but tested in the country.
• Search the Hunter: search engine for the Hunter Valley Region; looks through websites based in that area.
• D&B Australia: searches through business pages and related pages in Australia.
• Yoseek Australia: Australian search engine that searches through multiple directories to look for better results.
• Tasmania Online: Tasmania subject directory with its own internal search engine.

These search engines cover all topics and work the same way as any other search engine. They base the searches on keyword density and the reliability or fame of the website where the article is located. This helps those performing a search get a large number of results from various pages. They can get a large amount of information in a short amount of time and get their questions answered quickly and effortlessly. Those looking for car rental Sydney or treatment for cancer can find their questions answered simply by using one of these search engines.