There are a lot of search engines, with more coming online every day. This is a list of search engines that I’ve come across, and some information about them that I found interesting.
| Name | Website | Own crawler | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bing | bing.com | Yes | No |
| Brave Search | search.brave.com | Yes | No |
| DuckDuckGo | duckduckgo.com, ddg.gg, duck.com | No | No |
| google.com | Yes | No | |
| Google dataset search | datasetsearch.research.google.com | No | No |
| Kagi | kagi.com | Yes | No |
| LeoSearch | search.gkbrk.com | Yes | No |
| Marginalia Search | marginalia-search.com, search.marginalia.nu | Yes | Yes |
| Mojeek | mojeek.com | Yes | No |
| MWMBL | mwmbl.org | Yes | Yes |
| Wiby | wiby.me | Yes | Yes |
| Exa Search | search.exa.ai | No |
Marginalia Search is an independent search engine with its own crawler. It focuses on searching the small web, and filtering out advertisement-heavy or otherwise low-quality websites.
The search engine is open source, you can find the source code here.
Marginalia Search recently got its own domain instead of being hosted on a subdomain on the creator’s personal blog.
Google dataset search is a search engine that indexes datasets. It is not a general purpose search engine, but it is useful for finding datasets.
Link: datasetsearch.research.google.com