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Search engines and tools covers general web search, specialist indexes, and the utilities that query them. Entries include mainstream engines, privacy-focused alternatives, code and dataset search, and advanced query builders. Coverage is what separates them, since a general engine covers many subjects while a specialist index goes deep on one kind of material and may miss everything else. Compare how each one handles operators, filters, and result ranking, and check who runs it and where the index comes from. A smaller engine can still be the better choice for a narrow question.
VHSearch is a search tool built for searching content hosted on the Neocities platform. Created by Coyote Reyne, it includes features such as a StartHere directory, About page, contact information, and an updates and news section for users.
Mozilla web browser focused on open standards, privacy controls, extensions, and cross-device sync.
Endless Google is a userscript and Firefox extension that automatically loads more Google search results at the end of the document as the user scrolls, enabling endless result loading without manual pagination.
Google Advanced Search Operators is a guide that lists 44 Google advanced search operators, special commands that filter search results to make searches more precise, with categorization of operators by working status.
A compiled list of Google Dork search queries with usage examples. It provides specialized Google search strings to locate specific web content, including .edu domain contact details, websites running vbulletin forum software, and other targeted information.
Social search page for finding public results across social platforms and web sources.
A Moz blog post by Dr. Peter J. Meyers presenting 67 Google search operator examples across five areas: content research, title research, plagiarism check, competitive research, and technical SEO/audits. It explains operators such as quotes for exact match, parentheses for grouping terms, and exclusion of specific terms.
Operatory Poiska Google searches for images, video, audio, or other media by keyword or visual input.
WordPress.com search page for finding public posts, blogs, and topics across WordPress sites.
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data intelligence company. It provides real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trend data to help businesses accelerate their growth through access to digital market information.
Searx Index is a search instance or metasearch resource for private web discovery.
Public AWS S3 & Azure Search is a cloud storage bucket search tool hosted at buckets.grayhatwarfare.com. It indexes public AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Digital Ocean Spaces, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud buckets and their contained files. Users can search via logical AND keyword queries, with keyword exclusion supported using the - prefix. A paid Buckets Stream addon provides live updates of newly discovered open buckets, valid private buckets, and unlisted Azure domains, with an API available for stream searches.
Userscript for Custom Sidebar, adding browser customization or automation to supported websites.
Virgil Game Search is a beginner-friendly guide, reference, or tool for safer browsing, media, apps, or web resources.
Bookmarks is an OSINT Toolkit V2.1 collection of browser bookmarklets that enable open-source intelligence tasks directly from a web browser without requiring toolkit login. Included bookmarklets support functions such as extracting external links from the current page, conducting Facebook searches, highlighting specified text on pages, and retrieving webpage last modified dates.
Telegram link for search engines updates, bots, resources, or community discussion.
Intelligence X is a provider of free open source intelligence (OSINT) and forensic tools for investigative use. The platform offers a suite of tools for searching third-party sites, performing social media intelligence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram and YouTube, plus utilities for validating email addresses, looking up domains, IPs, Bitcoin addresses, images and other data types.
Yandex Search Operators collects search operators and dorks for advanced web searching and OSINT research.
DisableAMP is an open source userscript developed by AdGuard that redirects supported AMP and Yandex Turbo pages to their original canonical non-AMP versions. It is compatible with AdGuard for Android and popular userscript managers including Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey. The script can rewrite AMP links before clicking, redirect AMP pages after load, and remove visible AMP indicators from rewritten links.
This is a Moz educational guide explaining Google search operators, which are special characters and commands that extend the capabilities of standard Google text searches. The guide lists 62 advanced search operators, categorizes them by functionality status, outlines SEO and content research use cases, and provides example search strings for each operator.
Instance Scores is a search instance or metasearch resource for private web discovery.
Custom Google search engine focused on finding video and streaming resources across selected websites.
Userscript for Google Bangs, adding browser customization or automation to supported websites.
Virgil Software Search is a beginner-friendly guide, reference, or tool for safer browsing, media, apps, or web resources.
