Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I'm building a personal web search engine
A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more! - spyglass-search/spyglass
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I'm building a personal web search engine launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Apollo▲76Unix-style personal search engine for your digital footprint
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! It’s hard to find interesting people to work with on your ideas. Our solution: index the /about, /ideas, /now pages of 1000s of personal websites. There are thousands of cool personal sites out there, with amazing ideas on them, but there’s nowhere to easily search through. So we built a simple site that indexes 7k+ personal sites [0]. We were inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page movement [1] and other IndieWeb directories [2], but we figured that it would be more useful if we: * Let you search directly across personal sites without having to visit them * Take the content…
2024 · aboutideasnow.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · aava.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else. Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts. You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and…
2022 · blogsurf.io · its alternatives →
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Fetching for Mac▲215The personal search engine of all the webpages you've seen
2014 · fetching.io · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, There has been some talk about search engines here so I thought maybe I'd share a new project I'm working on. Built it partly to help me sell my own projects. Still a lot of work to be done but would be happy to get feedback. Very early phase so don't trust your life with it. Cheers --- Edit: if anyone needs a free/no CC account just DM me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/
2024 · singulatron.com · its alternatives →
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I made this site for myself, SimpleSearch.info, as new default browser page. I’m not sure if it actually _saves_ time or clicks (though, for me, it saves at least one click per search), but I find the search experience more pleasant. On desktop, it’s nice to just have these search bars as the first thing that pops up in a new window or tab vs clicking bookmarks in the toolbar or elsewhere then searching. Similarly, on mobile, I like just clicking on one icon for all my searches. The vast majority of my web browsing begins with a search or LLM query. I’m curious if this is helpful to anyone…
2025 · simplesearch.info · its alternatives →
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Nullity AI▲185Build your internal search engine in 30 seconds
2024 · nullityai.com · its alternatives →
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Library.one▲111Link sharing platform for experts, contextual search engine
2022 · library.one · its alternatives →
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Full-Text Search your Browsing History & Bookmarks
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · searchcommons.org · 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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2013 · awaxman.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · verse.sh · its alternatives →
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2020 · kuurio.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · sotosearch.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, We have a website and an extension called "Jooseph" which is basically for saving and discovering articles, videos and more in a personal online directory. You can build your own library or discover other users collections. For instance, you can follow a collection for learning "PHP for beginners" or create your own "Best of sales for startups" list. Now, we're starting to create collections for our users. If you want to learn a subject on and couldn't find a time to search for, we can create a personal collection for you. You can sign-up and we'll send you to form for…
2020 · its alternatives →
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