Marginalia Search is an experimental internet search engine focused on text-oriented websites, particularly small, old, and obscure sites. It aims to provide alternative, non-commercial discovery without requiring expensive data centers. The system can be self-hosted on affordable hardware and also offers a white-label option for custom data. Funding is planned through grants, donations, and commercial API licenses, while non-commercial use remains free.
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Mavink is an intelligent image search engine built to simplify image discovery. It features a range of trending search categories including fashion, recipes, DIY projects, seasonal content, and entertainment-related imagery.
MediaWiki Code2Code Search is an AI-powered semantic neural retrieval tool for searching MediaWiki source code. It uses Sentence-Transformers to enable meaning-based search rather than keyword-only matching, allowing users to find functions, types, and templates across the entire MediaWiki ecosystem. It supports multiple programming languages including PHP, Python, JavaScript, Go, TypeScript and Lua, and provides sample evaluation queries for common code search tasks.
Meilisearch is a search engine that indexes content and exposes it through search, conversational interfaces and APIs. It supports full-text search, semantic search and hybrid search, and can be used on the managed Meilisearch Cloud or self-hosted as an open source engine. Official SDKs are available for several programming languages and frameworks.
Mojeek is a web search engine that states a no tracking privacy policy and offers search results. It also provides search APIs for individuals and organisations that want to retrieve results from Mojeek's web search index, with customisable packages and pricing listed separately.
NerdyData is a search engine for website source code and technographic data. It crawls millions of live domains, fully rendering pages including JavaScript, and indexes the resulting source code, cookies, headers and network requests. Users can search for sites using specific technologies, scripts, HTML patterns, cookie names or HTTP headers. The platform supports sales prospecting, market sizing, competitive tracking and security research, and provides API access, a browser extension, Gmail add-on and MCP integration for AI assistants.
Paste Skimmer is a modern paste search engine developed by L33Tech. It enables users to search content across paste sites on the internet, and was created as a replacement for an outdated similar tool. The service is hosted on a Google Sites page.
A custom OSINT search tool for investigating national and international telephone numbers. It checks whether a phone number appears in different formats via search engines, with fields for users to fill in. Using the tools redirects to external search engines and websites.
PodSearch is an interactive podcast discovery directory. It provides easy-to-use search tools to find podcasts based on user interests. Users can listen to short show samples, access information about shows and hosts, and bookmark favorite podcasts. The platform offers free podcast listing for creators, mobile applications for Apple and Android devices, and a full-service podcast advertising agency called PodSearchAD for advertisers.
Recherche-Ebook is a free ebook search engine that finds sites where a requested ebook can be downloaded. It searches multiple manually verified sites and links to each site's search page. Downloads may be direct or via torrents, and epub files are described as compatible with several e-readers, with Calibre needed for Kindle.
Recipe Search is a search interface for browsing recipes from the RecipeNLG recipe database, using Typesense Instant Search. The page states it covers 2 million recipes and suggests example searches such as Pizza, Kale and Curry.
A page from Aware Online Academy presenting custom OSINT search tools for investigating Reddit. It describes searching by author, post, title, subreddits, flairs, URLs and NSFW items, and states that no Reddit account is needed to use the tools.
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.
arXiv Xplorer is a semantic search engine for arXiv. It supports open access interoperability with arXiv, bioRxiv and medRxiv, and is built using OpenAI's embeddings as a semantic search tool for these repositories.
search.fuckoffgoogle.net is an instance of SearXNG, a privacy-respecting, open source metasearch engine. The site is branded as FuckOff Google, and is powered by SearXNG version 2026.5.8+d8ab61a9e. It provides links to the SearXNG source code, issue tracker, engine statistics and a list of public SearXNG instances.
SearchFiles.de is a file search engine that searches for content in files hosted on services including Mega, Mediafire, 4shared, and Easy-Share. It allows users to filter results by keyword location and date range, requires JavaScript to operate, and can be added to browser search bars.
Searx is a free metasearch engine that aggregates results from over 70 search services. It does not track or profile users by default, does not use cookies unless configured, and supports access over Tor for anonymity. It can be self-hosted, with support for private token-restricted engines, offline local-result engines, and integrations with databases and indexers including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, and Solr.
Sourcebot is a self-hosted tool that helps human users and coding agents search, navigate, and understand complex enterprise codebases. It provides fast code search across all repositories and branches, AI-powered Q&A that references code and connected external tools, and a code context layer for agents. It is deployed via a single Docker container on user-managed infrastructure, with free Basic, paid Pro, and custom Enterprise pricing plans available.
Sploitus is a search engine for exploits and hacktools. It collects proof-of-concept code, CVEs, and the products they affect from across the internet in one place. Users can search by CVE identifier, product name, exploit, or security tool.
TMHunt is a search engine for clothing trademarks. It uses a database updated daily with official USPTO records for clothing class IC 025. The tool offers multi search, split search, and wildcard search options, and allows users to filter results by trademark status, type, and registration status.
Trovu.net is a web search command line tool that allows users to search over 1000 websites using customizable, curated and personal shortcuts organized by namespaces. It supports multiple and typed arguments and prioritizes maximum privacy for users. Advanced settings and personal shortcuts can be configured via a free GitHub account, and the service includes example shortcuts for travel, web search, AI, video, Wikipedia, and programming queries.
The page offers a custom OSINT tool for creating advanced search queries within Twitter and refers to tools for analyzing and monitoring accounts. It states that no Twitter account is needed for the described search steps.
VISE is a standalone open-source visual search application developed by the Visual Geometry Group in Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science. It enables visual search of large image collections using an image as a query. Installers are available for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux, with source code provided for compilation.
Yandex Images is an image search service operated by Yandex. It enables users to search for a range of image content including postcards, desktop screensavers, funny pictures, diagrams, and illustrated manuals, and allows users to get visual answers to their questions.