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24 alternatives to Built a small search engine without the fluff

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Built a small search engine without the fluff launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Nullity AI▲185
Build your internal search engine in 30 seconds
2024 · nullityai.com · its alternatives →
2SM
Search Made Easy▲5
2013 · ankane.github.io · its alternatives →
3NF
New, Fast, Anonymous, Tor-First Search Engine▲9
2019 · search4tor7txuze.onion · its alternatives →
4UR
Udacity really did teach me to build a search engine▲6
2012 · davedavefind.appspot.com · its alternatives →
5PS
Private Search – Decoupled identity and search, no Google/Bing▲5
2020 · private.sh · its alternatives →
6BA
Built Anonymous Search Engine for Facebook Pages▲5
2013 · facebookpagesearch.apoorv.pro · its alternatives →
7SD
Searching documentation made easy. (Web & API)▲9
2013 · doks.io · its alternatives →
8SF
Solve for All – customizable, private, hackable search engine▲7
2016 · solveforall.com · its alternatives →
9BR
Built RealTime Search for Google Chrome▲6
2013 · apoorv.quora.com · its alternatives →
10
MiniSearch, a minimalist search engine with integrated browser-based AI▲17
Hey everyone! I’m excited to announce the release of my last project, MiniSearch. I admire Perplexity.ai, Phind.com, You.com, Bing, Bard and all these search engines integrated with AI chatbots. And as a curious developer, I took the chance and created my own version. Using Web-LLM and Transformers.js to provide browser-based text-generation models on desktop and mobile, I built a minimalist self-hosted search app on which an AI analyses the results, comments on them and responds to your query summarising the info. In the backend, it still queries a real search engine, but besides that,…
2023 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
11IM
I made the first search engine for Remote Only jobs▲7
2022 · remoteonlyengineers.com · its alternatives →
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(gle) a tiny but completely functional Google searcher lib in python▲9
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
13IM
I made a web scraper that you don't need to study for to use it▲5
2020 · scraper.ai · its alternatives →
14IW
I wrote a search engine + aggregator for WordPress sites▲5
2011 · presstags.com · its alternatives →
15ID
I developed a no code web scraper for effortless data extraction▲5
2025 · scrapementor.com · its alternatives →
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Google Search from the Terminal▲8
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
17IB
I built a 2B-page search engine, independent of Google/Bing▲8
Hi HN, For the last 18 months, I've been working solo on building a completely independent search engine from scratch. Today, I'm opening it up for beta testing and would love to get your feedback. The project powers two public sites from the same 2-billion-page index: Searcha.Page: A session-aware search engine that uses a persistent browser key (not a cookie) for better context. Seek.Ninja: A 100% stateless, privacy-first version with no identifiers at all. The entire stack is self-hosted on a single ~$4k bare-metal EPYC server in my laundry room (no cloud, no VC funding). The search…
2025 · its alternatives →
18EB
effortless bookmarking site▲7
2011 · rinnku.com · its alternatives →
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Sonar▲14
A linting tool for the web
2017 · its alternatives →
20AU
An URL shortening experiment▲7
2014 · kq.io · its alternatives →
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Minimalist Stack Overflow▲8
2020 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
22OS
Open Source SEO Tool▲5
2017 · open-seo.org · its alternatives →
23PC
Privacy conscious, discovery focused search engine – Whize (Alpha)▲6
2020 · alpha.whize.co · its alternatives →
24KA
Knocker, automate finding businesses without a website▲6
2020 · knocker.io · its alternatives →

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