Some of the start-up engine companies say they could ultimately get orders from makers of power generators or boat engines.

WSJ: How to Make Better Car Engines

Barney Pell co-founded the ambitious start-up Powerset in 2005 that aimed to upend the search engine market.

FORBES: From Search Engine To Space Exploration For Co-Founder of Moon Express

In 2002, Tancer, a former Navy prosecutor, was working for the search engine LookSmart when he discovered the recently-launched start-up Hitwise.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The man dragged the bike away, straddled it, and tried to start it, bobbing up and down, pitching his weight onto the lever, the engine whirring but not catching.

NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The 15-employee, Palo Alto-based start up has launched a surprisingly effective, platform-agnostic search engine to help you find apps for every relevant platform.

FORBES: Quixey Raises $3.8M Round; Searching The Functional Web

Push the backlit engine-start button and the dashboard air vents automatically rotate open while the rotary shift knob rises up from the center console.

FORBES: A Jaguar With A Four-Cylinder Engine...Really?

With the combination of the back-illuminated CMOS sensor and TruePicVI SLR image processing engine, the iHS Technology made it improve the image quality, the speed from camera start-up until shooting, focus time, and continuous shooting time.

ENGADGET: Olympus Stylus TG-625 Tough adds AF light for tricky shots in rough situations