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.

Website Source Code Demo

★2398 2025-12-19 Docker K8S MIT

Search Engines Knowledge Management Tools

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.

Website Source Code

★1644 2026-07-18 Java Docker K8S Apache-2.0

Search Engines

bitmagnet#

BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.

Website Source Code

★4211 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.

Website Source Code Demo

★1119 2026-07-20 Java Docker Apache-2.0

Search Engines

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.

Website Source Code Demo

★1656 2026-07-20 Go Docker AGPL-3.0

Search Engines

Manticore Search#

Full-text search and data analytics, with fast response time for small, medium and big data (alternative to Elasticsearch).

Website Source Code

★11903 2026-07-20 Docker deb C++ K8S GPL-3.0

Search Engines

MeiliSearch#

Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.

Website Source Code

★58670 2026-07-16 Rust Docker deb MIT

Search Engines

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.

Website Source Code

★693 2026-07-15 Docker Apache-2.0

Search Engines

OpenSearch#

Distributed and RESTful search engine.

Website Source Code

★13348 2026-07-20 Java Docker K8S deb Apache-2.0

Search Engines

SearXNG#

Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases (Fork of Searx).

Website Source Code

★34177 2026-07-19 Python Docker AGPL-3.0 ⚠ Anti-features

Search Engines

Sosse#

Selenium based search engine and crawler with offline archiving.

Website Source Code

★2 2026-03-24 Python Docker AGPL-3.0

Search Engines Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)

Typesense#

Blazing fast, typo-tolerant open source search engine optimized for developer happiness and ease of use.

Website Source Code

★26337 2026-07-18 C++ Docker K8S deb GPL-3.0

Search Engines

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).

Website Source Code

★1159 2026-05-13 Rust Docker AGPL-3.0 ⚠ Anti-features

Search Engines