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24 alternatives to Dweb Search

A decentralized search engine for IPFS and Filecoin

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dweb Search launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Fabric▲690

    Make notes, tasks, and search, directly from the terminal.

    2023 · fabric.so · its alternatives →

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    End-to-end deep dive of the project, spanning a large GPU cluster, distributed RocksDB, and terabytes of sharded HNSW.

    2025 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →

  4. 4FS
  5. 5AD
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    IPFS▲84

    Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol for Blockchain powered web

    2015 · about.ipfs.io · 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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    An open source, non-profit web search engine. Contribute to mwmbl/mwmbl development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Support decentralized search by becoming a node operator.

    2021 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    The network powering presearch decentralized search engine

    2021 · nodes.presearch.com · its alternatives →

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    Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - torrent-net/README.md at master · lmatteis/torrent-net

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your Gateway to the Distributed Web. Contribute to PACTCare/Dweb.page development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14FS

    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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    FileMasta▲135

    Search the web for videos, audios, eBooks and much more

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :crystal_ball: Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch - dsys/match

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve started building a distributed search engine for scholarly literature, which is completely contained within a browser extension: install it from the Chrome Web Store. It uses WebRTC and magic, and is currently, like, right now, used by 0 people. It’s you who can be number...

    2014 · juretriglav.si · its alternatives →

  19. 19SP

    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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    Your Gateway to the Distributed Web

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Decentralized search engine, powered by the community.

    2018 · account.presearch.com · its alternatives →

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    Link sharing platform for experts, contextual search engine

    2022 · library.one · its alternatives →

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    🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tantivy▲68

    A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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