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Search and Discovery gathers the tools people use to find things online. Dataset and data search covers portals that index public data, statistics, and open government records. Academic and research search looks through papers, citations, and scholarly archives, while general search engines and their tools cover everything from operator guides to alternative engines. Metasearch services query several engines at once, and image search, media search, and curated web directories fill in the specialised cases. News search, file and open directory search, and product and shopping search cover narrower needs. Topic names describe what each service searches, so you can tell a citation index from a general web engine before you open it. Some entries are experiments rather than finished products, so expect a mixed level of polish.
Fagan Finder is a comprehensive collection of online information-finding tools. It aggregates access to a wide range of search engines, databases, and encyclopedias, including alternative search engines, non-English search engines, utility tools, and region-specific Asian encyclopedias.
Is it big? is a website that lists brands affiliated with major large corporations. Users can search for specific brands or navigate through available corporate groups, with data sourced from scraping brand websites. All data is open source and available on GitHub.
Keyword Tool helps research keywords, search demand, related terms, and content opportunities for SEO.
Lullar is a free username search tool that looks up people profiles across 175+ social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and GitHub. Searches can be made by username, email, or name, with no signup required.
MAC Address Lookup is a tool that enables users to find the vendor, manufacturer or organization associated with a MAC or OUI address. It uses the IEEE directory and Wireshark manufacturer database for lookups, offers a free REST API for third-party integration, and provides access to its regularly updated MAC address prefix database.
Million Short is an independent, ad-free web search engine offering private search. It provides site removal, Boost/Block controls, and topic-specific mini search engines called Topicals. The site also offers a browser extension and filtering options.
Monster Crawler Search is a web search engine that aggregates results from top authority sites and major search engines including Google and Yahoo! to deliver search results. It supports web, image, video and news search categories.
The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database contains information on more than 810,000 offshore entities from the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations. Records cover more than 80 years up to 2020. A Reconciliation API matches user data against database entities.
Old'aVista is a search engine for old websites hosted on services such as Geocities, Angelfire, Xoom, AOL, and Tripod. It organizes indexed sites into categorized directories spanning Arts & Humanities, Business & Economy, Computers & Internet, Education, Entertainment, Government, Health, News & Media, Recreation & Sports, Reference, Regional, Science, Social Science, and Society & Culture. The site is a proud member of TheOldNet webring and maintains a public guestbook.
OpenDirectory helps research websites, public data, search results, or online communities.
OpenOwnership helps research websites, public data, search results, or online communities.
OpenXNG is a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine powered by SearXNG version 2026.9.26+c52ce3835. The site provides access to the SearXNG source code, issue tracker, engine statistics, public instances, and contact information for instance maintainers.
A self-hosted tool that searches many free book and audiobook sources at once, merges results into one ranked list, downloads files to the user's server and names and shelves each book. It is free and open source, and version 1.0 is a dockerised port of the former website.
Raw Web helps research websites, public data, search results, or online communities.
Dark-web style recon search page for finding indexed data and investigation leads.
Search All is a multi-search platform that combines multiple AI search engines and chatbots, private web search engines, image and video search, shopping sites and social media networks in one tab. It offers browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox and an Android app, plus an AI image and video generator.
Searchcraigslist.org is a third-party search tool for Craigslist. It enables users to search all Craigslist classified listings nationwide, rather than being limited to local area results. Users can enter keywords to find items or services, add terms to refine searches, or use minus signs to exclude specific terms from results. The site also hosts informational articles related to selling items on Craigslist, including guidance on creating effective ad images. It is not affiliated with Craigslist.
Search Engine Colossus is an international directory of search engines launched in early 1998. It catalogs search engines organized by country, territory, and language, and allows users to submit search engines for inclusion at no charge. The site also offers a mobile version of its directory, and is maintained by Bryan Strome.
Search My Site is an independent search engine focused on personal websites, digital gardens and the small web. It also offers a website search tool that adds a search box to a site with one line of code. The platform is ad-free, privacy-first and open source, with a free Basic listing, a one-month free trial, and a Full listing priced at £12/year.
Document search engine for finding text files, PDFs, documents, and public downloadable content.
WebSitesSearch is a web search engine or search directory for finding websites, pages, and online information.
Metasearch engine for finding web results, images, videos, and news from multiple providers.
Soovle is a free keyword tool that lets users find keyword variations and search suggestions across multiple search engines including Google, Amazon, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo!, Pinterest, Answers.com, and Wikipedia. Users can select up to six sources at a time, star preferred results, export their starred keyword lists, and use the exported keywords to develop content topics, page titles and headings. Soovle does not display keyword data such as search volume, keyword difficulty or cost per click.
gnod Search is a web search engine or search directory for finding websites, pages, and online information.
