Search Engines#
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. This includes Web search engines.
Software#
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Aleph#
Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.
Amgix#
Hybrid search engine built for flexible deployment and real-world messy data.
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Apache Solr#
Enterprise search platform featuring full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.
★1700 2026-11-06 Java Docker K8S Apache-2.0
bitmagnet#
BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.
★4448 2026-05-21 Go Docker MIT
Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) File Transfer - Peer-to-peer Filesharing Search Engines
Fess#
Powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server.
★1145 2026-11-08 Java Docker Apache-2.0
Hister#
Personal web search engine with automatic indexing of visited websites. Supports offline local result previews, local files, multi-user handling and optional semantic search.
Manticore Search#
Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).
MeiliSearch#
Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.
Meme Search#
AI-powered meme search engine. Automatically extracts descriptions from images using vision-language models, then indexes with vector embeddings for semantic and keyword search.
★770 2026-10-19 Docker Apache-2.0
OpenSearch#
Distributed and RESTful search engine.
★13977 2026-11-06 Java Docker K8S deb Apache-2.0
SearXNG#
Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (fork of Searx).
Sosse#
Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.
Typesense#
Blazing fast, typo-tolerant search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.
Websurfx#
Aggregate results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. It is extremely fast and provides a high level of customization (alternative to SearX).
Yacy#
Peer based, decentralized search engine server.