r/searchengines

Hi! I'm doing a small survey to try to find which results from a variety of engines/indexes are better, without any bias from branding for specific search engines. I think that there are a number of great engines that go with far less market share, and I want to see just how much of it is due to actual result quality. I'll post results in the future if I get sufficient data from responses, please consider answering the survey :)

I keep noticing new or smaller search engines appear, and I usually try them out of curiosity.

I tried one recently called , and it made me think less about features and more about habits. Even when something feels fine to use, I still catch myself opening Google automatically without really deciding to.

For people who have actually switched and stayed with a different search engine, what made it work long-term? Was it a gradual change, or something specific that pushed you to stick with it?

When Yahoo was a popular directory/pseudo search engine, when Google was an extra. When helping DMOZ categorize things helped you and others. When you had to optimise for different engines like Lycos, Webcrawler, msn and others. When you used Netscape as the default website aligner and when it was all new? When people would gladly link reciprocally?

OK, things are different now I guess and we have new toys but I think it was more fun back then. Nowadays I feel the lemon has had all the juice squeezed out of it.

Not all are general search engines, but "Search" is one of the functions.
My apologies if the about might be off on some of them.

AOL

• URL:

• About: A web portal and search engine that combines results from other major engines with AOL’s own content and services.

Ask

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• About: A search engine that focuses on answering questions directly, combining web search with a Q&A-style interface.

Baidu

• URL:

• About: The dominant Chinese-language search engine, offering web, image, video, and other vertical searches primarily for users in China.

Bing

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• About: Microsoft’s search engine provides web, image, video, and news results, plus integrations with Microsoft services and rewards.

Brave Search

• URL:

• About: A privacy-focused search engine from the Brave browser team that aims to minimize tracking and rely on its own index.

CC Search (Creative Commons Search)

• URL:

• About: A tool for finding openly licensed images and other media that can be reused under Creative Commons licenses.

Dogpile

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• About: A metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple major search engines into a single results page.

DuckDuckGo

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• About: A privacy-oriented search engine that doesn’t track users and shows a simple, ad-light interface.

Ecosia

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• About: An eco-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree planting projects around the world.

ekoru

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• About: An environmentally themed privacy search engine that donates a portion of revenue to ocean and climate causes.

entireweb

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• About: A privacy-centric search engine and ad network offering web search without user tracking.

Excite

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• About: One of the early web portals, now a metasearch engine combining results from several other providers.

Fireball

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• About: A German-based search engine that emphasizes privacy and localized results.

Freespoke

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• About: A search engine that highlights content diversity and aims to reduce perceived bias in search results.

Gibiru

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• About: A privacy search engine that markets itself as uncensored and anonymous.

GoGoPrivate

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• About: A metasearch engine focused on private browsing and anonymous search results.

Google

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• About: The most widely used search engine globally, offering comprehensive search of the web and numerous specialized services.

Goo

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• About: A Japanese search portal providing web search along with local news and services.

Internet Archive

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• About: A digital library that lets users search and view archived versions of web pages over time.

infospace

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• About: A metasearch platform that aggregates results from several major search engines and specialized sources.

iseek

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• About: A search engine aimed at professionals and students, focusing on authoritative and educational sources.

iZito

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• About: A metasearch engine that combines results from various providers into a single interface.

metacrawler

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• About: One of the original metasearch engines, pulling results from several major search services.

mojeek

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• About: An independent search engine with its own index, focused on privacy and non-tracking.

Naver

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• About: South Korea’s leading search portal with integrated news, knowledge services, and community content.

Norton Safe Search

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• About: A search service from Norton that filters results using its security ratings to flag risky sites.

OpenMD

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• About: A medical search engine that indexes health, clinical, and biomedical documents from reputable sources.

Openverse

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• About: A search tool for openly licensed images and audio, providing Creative Commons and public domain media.

Presearch

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• About: A decentralized, community-driven search engine that rewards users when they search.

QuackQuackGo

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• About: A small, privacy-minded search front-end intended as an alternative interface to mainstream engines.

Qwant

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• About: A European privacy-focused search engine that avoids tracking and profiling users.

Rambler

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• About: A Russian web portal and search engine offering news, mail, and search services.

Refseek

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• About: An academic search engine that emphasizes scholarly and educational resources over general web content.

ResultHunter

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• About: A metasearch engine that combines multiple search sources with customizable filtering.

Right Dao

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• About: A search engine emphasizing censorship resistance and on-chain indexing concepts.

SearchThat (ST)

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• About: Customizable multi-source search hub that redirects queries to major engines with plenty of other tools and features.

Seznam

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• About: A major Czech search engine and portal with localized search, maps, and email.

Shodan

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• About: A specialized search engine for discovering internet-connected devices, servers, and services.

SlideShare

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• About: A platform and search engine for presentations, documents, and professional slide decks.

Sogou

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• About: A Chinese search engine known for web search and its popular Chinese input method.

Startpage

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• About: A privacy search engine that serves Google results but strips identifying information from user requests.

StartSiden

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• About: A Norwegian portal and search page that aggregates local news, links, and search results.

Swisscows

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• About: A Swiss privacy search engine using its own index and semantic technology, also promoting family-friendly results.

Torry

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• About: A search engine aimed at discovering tools, companies, and products in the Web3 and crypto ecosystem.

WebCrawler

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• About: One of the earliest search engines, now operating as a metasearch service aggregating results.

Wiby

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• About: A niche search engine focusing on small, old-style, and independent websites over large commercial sites.

WolframAlpha

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• About: A computational knowledge engine that answers queries by calculating results from curated data and algorithms.

Yahoo Search

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• About: A longstanding web portal and search service using a mix of its own technology and partnered search results.

Yandex

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• About: Russia’s largest search engine, offering web search plus maps, mail, and many integrated services.

Yep

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• About: A search engine from Ahrefs that shares a portion of ad revenue with content creators.

You

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• About: An AI-powered search engine that blends traditional search with AI summaries, apps, and chat.

YouCare

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• About: A search engine that donates ad revenue to charitable causes such as animal welfare and humanitarian projects.

ZapMeta

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• About: A metasearch engine that compiles results and information from numerous web sources and search providers.

If someone asks ChatGPT "best jeans under $100" and it mentions your brand, you'd never know. There’s no analytics, no way to track it, literally nothing.
But people are definitely using it to research purchases now. Feels like a huge blind spot compared to being able to track Google searches or social mentions.
I tried peecAI but found too much noise. Is anyone actually solving this or is it just impossible to measure right now?

What are the facts and what are your opinions?

Google is getting worst by the day and I just cant stand it anymore, and i cant find any AI-less alternative in the big 2026.

I felt unsafe posting this on the Google subreddit since it seems alot of people still support that company for some reason so I hope this place is okay haha. I want to stop using chrome and Google since I lack trust in them and want to use a browser that's not 1. from a terrible company 2. supports generative/harmful AI or 3. where my data is at risk. I want a good option for both mobile and desktop. I briefly used ecosia as a search engine through chrome before but I'd prefer not having to use chrome full stop. Is that an option as an android / Microsoft user? Also if anyone has good reccomendations for browsers and search engines (and ways to transfer my bookmarks, tabs etc. to them) that'd be much appreciated. I'm not huge on anything tech-related so this is not an area of knowledge for me. Thanks!

A trend I've noticed recently is that when I search through Google, I will get results for things that are similar-but-not-the-same as what I searched for, along themes and patterns that suggest the search engine is adding keywords to my search.

For example, searching, "Do bats share food?" on Google gives me results exclusively about vampire bats, and the word 'Vampire' is in bold in the search results despite not being something I searched - and not something I care about, because I'm trying to read about insect-eating bats.

By contrast, using DuckDuckGo, I get results about all variety of bats with no clear trend.

Am I just seeing patterns where they don't exist, or has Google changed their search algorithm to try and guess at what it thinks you want, instead of showing search results for what you actually searched?

Main reasons:

1. Google has started blocking searches for sources of 18+ images (it mostly blocks them if the chest is flat).

2. It blocks searches for cosplayers because searches related to people are restricted.

P.S. I know about the R..n Yandex, but it has RKN censorship on websites and links.

Every so often I notice a smaller search engine pop up and I end up trying it, mostly out of curiosity more than anything else.

I tried one recently called Lookr, and it didn’t really change how I search, but it did make me notice how automatic my habits are. Even when something works just fine, I still find myself opening Google without really thinking about it.

For anyone who has actually switched away and stuck with another search engine, what made it last for you? Was it something gradual, or was there a specific reason you didn’t go back?

اريد ابحث عن فستان معين عندي صورتة واريد احصلة بس اريد اعرف وين ممكن احصلة على الاقل اسم المتجر اونلاين او المحل بالواقع، اريد طريقة ممكن ابحث بيها عن منتج و تفيدني اوصل لنتيجة ١٠٠٪ فعلا هو، هل من الممكن انو تتواجد طريقة بأستخدام مواقع تواصل الاجتماعي انو احصل نفس الموديل

I searched for this exact French sentence on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo: "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage, il y a maintenant trois ans". To my great surprise, the only search engine that returned a result is Yahoo Search. (edit: now it seems Yahoo search has "catched up" on Bing, and has de-indexed the relevant page, which was this one for the record: )

However, it was my understanding that Yahoo Search relies on Bing results, but Bing returns nothing with this query. Why is there a difference between the two? It probably does not come from search results customization, as I tried from various browsers in incognito mode, from three different computers, and from various IPs located in different countries.

Subsidiary question: when I search for the sentence "Au cours de notre dîner de répétition de mariage" (which is a shorter version of the previous sentence), now Bing and other search engines like Google return one result. So they all have the page indexed in their system, they just seem to be unable to process a longer sentence, contrary to Yahoo search. Why is that?

(Context explaining why I search for this sentence: as Google search results have become horrendous, I'm benchmarking various search engines on random sentences taken from pages from my Web browsing history).

edit: ironically, now Google returns this very page in its results, but still does not return the original page where the exact sentence appears.

I'm annoyed that the AI Summary Garbage has taken over so much of many of the search engines, and I was wondering if there were any good search engines that would still offer those quick lookup features that give like a real quote from a relavent article, or automatically populates something like a movie's cast from imdb, etc

I’ve been wondering if there’s any app or tool that actually lets you search your own picture and personal info online. I’m mainly curious because I want to know if my photos are being reused for fake or scam accounts on social media. Google Image Search feels very limited and often misses social platforms entirely. Has anyone found a tool that actually works for this, without being sketchy or inaccurate?

I've had so many instances where i've reverse searched a image I found on platforms such as Instagram, facebook, Soundcloud, blogspot, TikTok and Tumblr that are not password protected and are publicly accessible yet they fail to appear on all conventional engines like Google Lens, Tineye, Yandex, Bing etc. Does anyone know of a universal tool that can comb through social platforms, forums, videos that are unlisted and/or not on the image section of search results?

Lately people have been looking for an alternative search engine to Google as it's been censoring more and more news, info, etc. Same with You Tube (now owned by Google), well I have compiled a list of all of the internet search engines and video platforms I have come across.

Alternative search engines & video sites to Google & You Tube:

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The site interface was designed basically what we expect out of modern day AI. You ask it a question, it gives you answers and breaks them into categories, all behind the respectable appearance of a butler. The issue was it operated like an inferior version of Google and completely fell off like every other non-Google search engine did at the time. Today every big corporation seems to be going all in on AI and offering the kind of interface Ask Jeeves did but with AI responses that can actually address the question, to varying degrees of success. It seems a no brainer to bring back this old brand and attempt to get a piece of the future AI marketshare by appealing to us boomers who remember it existed.

I don't know much about search engines available but I want a search engine which is privacy focused, unbiased, and fully uncensored. Is there any available????

Hello, I’m setting up a new divise for the first time and want to use the best stuff. ive been doing so much reasurch that I’ve got a bit turned around and don’t know what to believe anymore.
I just want something that doesn’t use Ai and won’t gather info and track me. Sorry if a post like this is already up, any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

Ran across this site in my web server logs (referrer), seems fairly simple search (aggregated) and still being built, it was down for a bit then back up, etc.,.

if I perform a search on DuckDuckGo, then I want to do another search, the browser refuses to let me delete the search Field's contents.

This is frustrating, how can I fix this? happening on my Linux computers and my phone.

Hi , I wanna know if there are really good only fans searcher , like I can choose many tags ( ebony , thicc , small , goth ,milf , fake , bimbo ) and have a good display of model .

Because when sometime I search for chubby , I found thin girl , or if I search for Asian, I found latina (you see the little problem).

And which content they are doing ( more anal , squirter , etc ).

I was trying to find the earliest date of a VERY famous photograph yet TinEye kept saying 0 results despite there probably being tens of thousands. Turns out TinEye protects all copyright images, and so im guessing that image is somehow copyrighted thus wont come up. Any alternatives?

Would like to know if can combine helping ecology with having slightly more privacy than using google or maybe I should stay with duckduckgo

Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but if not, please suggest other places to post this.

Anyway, something strange happened.

Lenso.ai and Pimeyes both stopped working for me simultaneously.

Lenso.ai keeps returning a Captcha error even though I am sure I am identifying the objects correctly.

Pimeyes just won't search. On mobile when I click the search bar it doesn't do anything. On my laptop when I try to click the search bar, the red circle with the diagonal crossbar prohibited 🚫 icon appears.

What is going on here? I wasn't doing anything crazy or nefarious. But they both just stopped working all of a sudden. Is this just a coincidence or is something else happening? Any suggestions?

I have trued a few privacy first search engines like ddg Qwant startpadge and mojeek and personally I think ddg is the most google like at the mo I know startpadge uses google results buy ddg feels more like google and Qwant has a nice feel to it like a more cut down google a pre ai google but mojeek it I think it’s more of a wired one it dose not feel like any others search engine it is one on its own

I would like it here’s opinions on these search engine

Hi all,

I´ve been using Ecosia for a long time, but around once a week I'll have to sign in again. I've checked everything but it keeps happening, unlike other search engines and pages. It happens in mobile and desktop (on Firefox and Brave).

I really want to keep using it, but I'm considering changing because of this.

I wanna find someone, I don't know the name, I have multiple photos!!

So can anyone help me tell any reverse image search engine!!!

Please which are best , free of use or even if paid then it's cheap

Hey all,

I’m working on a project called Helixis.

My current plan: • I forked the Rebel browser and rebranded it (Chromium-based). • I want to add an AI copilot sidebar. • On top of that, I’d like to build a small, opinionated “Helixis Search Engine” instead of just using Google/Bing.

I’m not trying to build a Google competitor — more like a focused search layer that works well with the browser + copilot.

I’m looking for someone who has actually built search / indexing / infra before and would be open to: • A short DM or call • Walking me through the main tradeoffs (meta-search vs own index, costs, scaling basics, etc.) • Helping me avoid dumb mistakes early

What eco-friendly search engine has the best privacy or should I give up and just go to DuckDuckGo? I've been using Ecosia and am frankly disgusted by them implementing AI as a search engine that claims to want to help the enviroment. I've looked at Search for Trees and Ekoru, but I'm still pretty unsure.

If I was on a webpage and clicked "back" until I got to the Google search page, would what appeared in the search box be what I specifically typed in, or could it be auto populated somehow?

And I’m not talking about “does it completely conceal all my personal data 100%,” I already know it doesn’t do that. Like from a security stand point, am I in any significant way more vulnerable using the qwant default search extension for firefox and safari. Ios gave me a scary looking warning about how it can see what I type into safari when I enabled said extension. I’m 99% sure this just apple being big brother, but I want to see if anyone else had any trouble before I go shopping with this thing in my browsers or whatever.

I found this a couple weeks ago and after reaching out to the dev I actually got to test it for a bit. Basically, it's an IR system that indexes all the files on your PC and then you can search for key terms and stuff like that (like a search engine but for your files). The good thing is that it doesn't just search file names but the actual content. I think it's more for companies but definitely recommend checking it out.
(Dev said he's happy to let people test it for feedback)

I've been having a hard time trying to use search engines to find anything, usually getting a bunch of vague or incorrect results. They used to work a lot better in the past and it's really frustrating me his useless they have become for finding anything. Are there any search engines that are actually good for in-depth research, since it seems like Google and many other options seem to be pretty useless these days? It's be nice if it could be one that's good for privacy, too.

I believe that most search engines, including kagi, use Google's webcrawler, and then use their own algorithm to pick and display results. This seems to have two problems: (1) Google is heavily censored and (2) many results are ads or AI slop that are optimized to have high ranks.

It seems like it would be possible to make a webcrawler and only do the legal minimum censorship, but I wonder if this would even accomplish anything with all of the AI slop. Is the age of being able to find information dying out forever?

Hey y’all

Need some help with this, hope you can give me some tips— where do people usually find experienced Search folks? LinkedIn hasn’t been really helpful.

For context we’re a Latam startup, working on a B2B marketplace with a pretty big catalog, and our search works… just okay; but we really need to improve it. We already have some people who put some work on it — but we need someone with stronger Search experience to take set us in the right direction.

Any useful tip, on where could I connect with such people would be really appreciated.

i have a widget that laods on peaples websites, i noticed that some of my customers face an issue:
when yoou search their website name< it will show the website with google search snippets that contain my widgets texts(instead of the website texts or descriptions)

my customer is very unhappy, i searched and found that i should put the data-nosnippet on my widgets container so it wont appear in search results and crawlers ignore the texts inside it,

but i still have a problem, his search result are still showing my widgets texts instead of his website although he deleted my widget from website(it seems that it can take some time before google recrawls the website)

how can i fasten this proccess and make his website search results like before? i dont have access to his search console

also is there any way to test if my new update on widget is working or not?

Dear community,

Hello, I have been interested in the concept of metasearch engines lately, and was wondering what might be the best one to try. I wanted to see what the majority of people on this subreddit might think. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Grayson W.

Or is reverse image search, as a concept, a thing of the past? Google Image search used to be great, but now all I get are product results. TinEye was also pretty good, but now I rarely get any results back. I just want a way to find the highest quality version of an image.

I am sick and tired of bloated web pages and having to deal with godawful generative AI shoving bs into my face whenever I use google so I want to find some search engine that is plain and simple and just gives me search results instead of showing me 5000 pop ups and an essay written by a computer telling me that 2000°C is perfect for a fish tank. Does anyone know of any good search engines like this?

Saw video on how slanted Google results are. Thought id try something new

I'm an Apple user, I've got an Iphone, Ipad and Mac. I used to use Safari, but last year I started using Chrome instead. I want to know which one is better in terms of security.

It started out small but the index has now grown to a pretty significant size. Thought this might interest some of you:

I really starting to think in who algorithms and corps are killing our experience of internet, I don't just want to find the mainstrem 10 webcites that we use every day, I really want to surf the web, scape from mainstream found freak webcites find alternatives ways of think.

I made a web tool that aims to uncover the real web.

The project I'm working on now has a beta to search results from its own independent search index that is working to be differentiated and favor small web, human-created results.

I need help with some initial feedback and habits. If you were to deep dive on a topic, what results on the the web would be differentiated enough to make you say, "Ooh, interesting," and actually discover new human-made content like the old days?

If you'd like, you can  right now and respond with what your experience was. It's still in beta but any experience is helpful!

I have two extensions to improve Google search: Google verbatim search (only shows results where each word appears verbatim) and Google search engine with udm=14 preset (gets rid of AI overview). With these two extensions, which is better in terms of search engine accuracy?

planning to switch to a different search engine cause opera gx is eating all my damn ram and my download speed are super slow

A search engine that doesn't prioritize things. When looking for a search engine that doesn't just give me the same results, no predictive algorithm or learning to suggest certain things, all I found were other search engines that prioritized smaller sites instead of popular sites.

That's not what I'm looking for. I wanted to know if the kind of search engine that searches purely off what you type even exists anymore?

Okay, technically I know they do in some places. Like the Wayback Machine. It doesn't have an algorithm at all. You just type something and it provides based off that. But the Wayback Machine is an archive, not necessarily a daily use search engine to surf the entirety of the Internet. Just what's been archived of it.

So does anyone know of one that exists?

The title says it all... started as a random hackathon project back in September 2020. It was Covid, so everyone was locked inside and OnlyFans was blowing up. Creators were flocking to the platform, but there was one huge problem: nobody could get discovered. There was no search feed on the actual platform, no discovery page, nothing. Everyone I talked to said the same thing: finding new subscribers was brutal and they spent more time marketing themselves than making new content.

Fans felt it too. They wanted a better way to find creators they actually liked, but the platform made it impossible. They wanted to be able to search by specific traits like location or content niche. By the end of the hackathon weekend we had a rough but working search engine that could index OnlyFans profiles. We didn’t win the hackathon, but we kept going because it clearly solved a real problem.

A few weeks later, we dropped it on Product Hunt and it took off. Traffic spiked, creators started getting clicks, and before long OnlySearch became the top ranked OnlyFans search engine on Google, a spot it has held ever since. For years, it quietly ran without ads or monetization, and we nearly forgot about it. That is, until my other product, Sunroom was acquired. Now I'm turning my focus to OnlySearch and launching paid ads. In just a couple months we've already garnered a long waiting list of creator agencies eager to advertise on OS.

OnlySearch has always been about making discovery actually work for creators. It’s still growing, still independent, and still run by people who genuinely get it. Stay tuned for what’s next.

I'm looking for a search engine that is good as a widget with my I'm launcher. I'm using lynx launcher and want a better widget than Google search

It's clear here, in this example from a normal google tab, that these results under my search are based on my past searches on this site.

But I've also seen these pop up in Incognito, tailored to searches that I did in a previous Incognito mode tab. Sometimes when I'm trying to switch to a version where I'm not signed into google or the site in question; for example when I can't be bothered to sign out, but I want to see how the not-signed-in version looks; I'll switch over and use google, and I've noticed this happen. Specific keywords keep cropping up that I'm sure I've only searched in these cases.

How does it retain that info and come up with these results when it's in Incognito? I thought cookies and search result history wasn't retained in Incognito?

Recently I've noticed that several websites indexed by Google are broken. If I search for something, I can get the results from Google search, but the domain names of such websites are never on the first line of the Google search. For example, I search for "handwiki.org" (hoping to find this website), but the first page always gives some random pages from this website, but not the main page with the domain name. I've seen similar patterns for other domains too.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experimenting with a small search engine that aggregates results from multiple open sources to help find content that’s often hard to locate with traditional engines.

It’s still early, and I’d love input from people familiar with search tech. Some questions I have:

• What features are most useful in a niche search engine?

• How would you expect results and filtering to work?

• Any ideas for improving the overall user experience?

I can share a link to a simple demo in the comments for anyone interested.

I'm really trying to find a Search Engine that has really good and clear pictures. I was using Yahoo Image Search. But every since they updated the Android App they have completely ruined it by putting Text Captions under the Images and making the pictures a lot smaller too now. What Search Engine can I use where I can see Pictures that are big and that don't have Text Captions under them? I'm open to all kinds of suggestions for Search Engines. You can barely see any pictures on the Yahoo Search Mobile Android App because the Text Captions are covering more than half of it.

I've built which allows you to do web search as from your command line. Examples:

• searches on Google Flights from Berlin to Ibiza, departing next Friday and returning on the next 5th. (The last two arguments are of and are converted to actual dates.)

• searches for a hotel in Ibiza from the 28th to the 29th.

You might know the idea as !bangs from DuckDuckGo but trovu's shortcuts take two or more arguments, and those arguments can even be typed. It also runs entirely in the browser, sending no query to my server, giving you maximum privacy.

Trovu also has built-in localization by organizing shortcuts into :

• picks the French–German dictionary if your browser’s preferred language is German.

• will search on if your browser’s preferred language is en-CA.

• searches Wikipedia in your language.

• searches the French Wikipedia, overriding your browser’s language.

You can also perform simpler searches:

• searches Google for “berlin”

• searches DuckDuckGo for “berlin”

• searches Google for “berlin”, but only pages in Polish

There are 6,000+ curated shortcuts, maintained in a .

Other features include:

• .

• Set a default keyword (e.g., g for Google) that’s used when no keyword is matched.

• Create your own and subscribe to other people’s shortcuts.

• Watch the 30-second .

• Use it or as a

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

, one of the most uncensored, private and big index search engines, have been plugged out from the wall, maybe forever.

and that was the last comment made by his creator on github repo.

Very sad so see it gone. Since it got defunded, and suddenly stopped being supported. another massive book burning in this year, and just one of many in the upcoming years.

i was searching an image i found online that was claimed to be a hate symbol but i wanted to verify that, however google refused to give me any results when i asked if the image i provided was affiliated with a "white supremacy group" and even simply a "hate group." Google apparently hasn't read 1984 or just doesn't realize the value and necessity of not locking away information because it could hurt someone's feelings.

i need a new search engine that will not attempt to filter sensitive search results, i need an engine that works like a virtual encyclopedia should, where all of the information in their resources are open and unrestricted to me if i search for them

Hey. Are we cooked? Even DuckDuckGo has introduced an AI feature and every single engine I've tried has removed the advanced search options (-,"", etc). Google still has an advanced search PAGE but it doesn't actually remove words when you put it in the field. What actually good search engine is out there?

I'm picturing something that pulls the same index Google uses, but strips every ad, shopping box, and SEO fluff.

Then show search bar below with "Search follow-up" to do follow-up search

It shows search results for follow-up query below the previous one, forming a thread.

So, if tomorrow a service mashed those two ideas together-Google-grade relevance + vertical-thread readability.

Would you be inclined to try and switch to such a search engine? Why or why not?

So there are a lot of websites coming in for analysing AI visibility or ranking in citations, is understanding the analysis the hard part or fixing the points raised by the reports harder for the same?

Site is 3 months old. GSC: 50k impressions, 227 clicks, CTR 0.5, avg position 39. Is this healthy for a new local site?

Not sure if it’s just ramping up or if it’ll stay like this for a while. Trying to figure out how stable it might be going forward