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24 alternatives to Dataset Search

Making it easier to discover datasets. Made by Google.

Dataset Search is a search engine made by Google that helps users discover datasets. It enables scientists, data journalists, and anyone interested in data to find datasets for research, reporting, or exploration. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dataset Search launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Search millions of datasets on the web

    2020 · datasetsearch.research.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Google's new tool turns boring data into GIFs!

    2017 · datagifmaker.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →

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    Understand datasets & improve data quality, by Google PAIR

    2021 · knowyourdata.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →

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    A free keyword tool that uses Google's data relationships

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Your GeoAI to combine in-house with public map-based data

    2024 · datamonkey.tech · its alternatives →

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    Search for datasets with Google

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

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    Find relevant keywords your audience is searching for

    2022 · dashword.com · its alternatives →

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    Find the perfect image datasets for your next ML project

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Dataset Explorer is now LIVE and FREE. -- Finding the right dataset shouldn't be this hard. Millions of high-quality datasets exist across Kaggle, data.gov, and other platforms, but discovering the ones you actually need feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. Whether it's seasonality trends, weather patterns, holiday data, tech layoffs, currency rates, political content, or geo information – the perfect dataset is out there, but buried under poor search functionality. That's why we built the dataset-explorer – a completely free tool that lets you search for datasets using natural…

    2025 · hunch.dev · its alternatives →

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    The all in one search engine for PH, DN, HN and GitHub ✊

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Go beyond search

    2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Explore GitHub live data in natural language

    2023 · ossinsight.io · its alternatives →

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    An experimental AI-organized search results page

    2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm Will, founder of Exa (YC21 - https://exa.ai). Today we're opening up Websets, a search engine that finds massive lists of correct results given complex queries. For example, you can search for: - “software engineers in the Bay Area, with experience in startups and big tech, who know Rust and have published technical content”: https://websets.exa.ai/cm7ax5bl8003276q689v0dde5 - “US based healthcare companies, with over 100 employees and a technical founder": https://websets.exa.ai/cm6lc0dlk004ilecmzej76qx2 - "research paper about ways to…

    2025 · websets.exa.ai · its alternatives →

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    It's like ProductHunt's search bar, but smart as Google's

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Free & searchable databases - companies, trends, funding

    2022 · insighthack.com · its alternatives →

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    A keyword research tool using Google Search Suggestions data

    2022 · keywordsea.com · its alternatives →

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    Step into the future with Searchbase Cloud's AI-enhanced search capabilities. Effortless to integrate, intuitive to use, and built for insightful discoveries. Transform your data into action with the smartest search on the market. Join the revolution.

    2024 · searchbase.dev · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight JavaScript library for building search UIs

    2020 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I got nerd-sniped by Bloom Filters this weekend, specifically for searching datasets with high "cardinality" (number of unique items). They're an _amazing_ data structure that, at a fixed size, tracks potential set membership. That means unlike normal b-tree indexes, they don't grow with the number of unique items in the dataset. This makes them great for "needle in a haystack" search (logs, document) as implementations like VictoriaMetrics and Bing's BitFunnel show. I've used them in the past, but they've never been center-stage in my projects. I wanted high cardinality keyword…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2014 · socialrank.com · its alternatives →

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