  Most of compact binary systems are expected to circularize before the
frequency of emitted gravitational waves (GWs) enters the sensitivity band of
the ground based interferometric detectors. However, several mechanisms have
been proposed for the formation of binary systems, which retain eccentricity
throughout their lifetimes. Since no matched-filtering algorithm has been
developed to extract continuous GW signals from compact binaries on orbits with
low to moderate values of eccentricity, and available algorithms to detect
binaries on quasi-circular orbits are sub-optimal to recover these events, in
this paper we propose a search method for detection of gravitational waves
produced from the coalescences of eccentric binary black holes (eBBH). We study
the search sensitivity and the false alarm rates on a segment of data from the
second joint science run of LIGO and Virgo detectors, and discuss the
implications of the eccentric binary search for the advanced GW detectors.
