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24 alternatives to Backdata

It will be a fast, relevant and user-friendly search engine.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Backdata launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8 If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing…

    2025 · crustdata.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2YC

    Skip the groundwork with our AI-ready Web Search APIs, delivering advanced search capabilities to power your next product.

    2021 · you.com · its alternatives →

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    GetData▲291

    Get data from any webpage in 3 clicks

    2019 · getdata.io · its alternatives →

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    Watup Hackernews, We have created a new type of search engine that searches on the full source code of webpages, not just the on-page text. It's called NerdyData (nerdydata.com) and we're launching today! Our search engine is different from search engines you've used before. Traditional search engines are geared towards providing answers, whereas our goal is to give you the best list of results for a query. Our crawler has visited over 140 million homepages and collected terabytes of HTML, Javascript, and CSS code. We've also designed several search interfaces that allow anybody to query…

    2013 · its alternatives →

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    HasData▲430

    Get valuable data from any website without need for a proxy

    May 2026 · hasdata.com · its alternatives →

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    A backlinks research tool for competitive intelligence

    2019 · neilpatel.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, Last time when we were on HackerNews [1], we received a lot of feedback, and we incorporated most of it. - We have changed our name from grep.help to usegrasp.com - A privacy policy page - Bulk import - Pricing page We are happy to introduce a new feature: a personalized answer search engine that provides direct citations to the content on the page. Demo: https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949

    2023 · usegrasp.com · its alternatives →

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    You.com▲381

    Private search engine that summarizes the web

    2021 · you.com · its alternatives →

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    Making it easier to discover datasets. Made by Google.

    2018 · datasetsearch.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    On-demand backlink data for developers and agencies

    2021 · link-assistant.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off! I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.

    2022 · search.feep.dev · its alternatives →

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    A backlink tool to index your links quickly and freely.

    2021 · backlinktool.io · its alternatives →

  13. 13OS
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    A decentralized search engine for IPFS and Filecoin

    2021 · dweb-search.on.fleek.co · its alternatives →

  16. 16AS
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    Full Text Search Engine - built for Hackers not Hyperscalers - 0xnyn/blaze

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Link sharing platform for experts, contextual search engine

    2022 · library.one · its alternatives →

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    Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.

    2018 · netdata.kpots.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortless backlink indexing, faster SEO results

    2024 · backlinkmonitor.co · its alternatives →

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    Search engine for your personal data

    2021 · letsfind.io · its alternatives →

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    Linkbox▲66

    The backlinks SEO tool that helps to manage link campaigns

    2021 · linkbox.pro · its alternatives →

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    Thousands of marketplaces, one interface.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Visual analytics for Big Data

    2018 · insightsoftware.com · its alternatives →

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