Similar to Google in that it has a simple interface with a primary focus on searching. It also provides a simple interface for submitting your site for free. Turnaround time of 24 hours for accepting your site submission. Alcarna does not take its results from other search engine databases such as Google or Yahoo, submission is totally manual.

BIGLOBE (ビッグローブ) (combination of the words "big" and "globe") is one of the leading internet service providers in Japan, operated by NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd., a 2006 spin-off from NEC. KDDI acquired the company in January 2017.

Excite is one of the smaller search engines in Japan, it is powered by Google. Excite's Online Translation tool is popular with people in Japan. Excite's portal site aimed at women is similar to Yahoo! Shine.

goo is an Internet search engine (powered by Google) and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites (before switching to Google).

Google not only operates under its own domain at google.co.jp, but also is starting to provide most of the search results for Yahoo! Japan. In addition, it provides search results for goo, Biglobe, @nifty, Infoseek, Excite and Mooter.

Ly­cos is a web search en­gine and por­tal, en­com­pass­ing a net­work of email, web-host­ing, so­cial net­work­ing, and en­ter­tain­ment web­sites. Use the Japanese site to ac­cess gam­ing and blog­ging net­work sites in your tar­get lan­guage.

The MSN Japan website offers a search engine (powered by bing) and a variety of news, current affairs, and media information.