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Searchify is a search-as-a-service platform that adds full-text search functionality to websites through a simple API compatible with IndexTank. It eliminates the need to manage search servers and offers real-time… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. IndexTank's search API will live on at Searchify launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web▲137

   Impossibly fast web search, built for static sites.

   2020 · stork-search.net · its alternatives →

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   The Search▲335

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

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   instantsearch.js by Algolia▲332

   JavaScript UI library for building great search experiences

   2015 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →

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   SeekAll▲417

   Search across multiple platforms in one tab, even AI & YT

   2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Searchable.ai▲316

   One search across all your local, cloud and app files

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a full text search engine in Go▲131

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

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   SearchApi▲103

   Real-time search engines results API

   2024 · searchapi.io · its alternatives →

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   Apifier – hosted web crawler for developers▲101

   Thousands of tools to automate your business. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate your apps and AI agents.

   2015 · apifier.com · its alternatives →

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   Firesearch▲82

   Serverless full-text search for Google Cloud Platform.

   2020 · firesearch.dev · its alternatives →

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    DocSearch▲259

    The easiest way to add search to your documentation

    2015 · community.algolia.com · its alternatives →

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    Apifier▲223

    The web scraping and automation platform

    2015 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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    Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch▲74

    Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported

    2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →

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    Frontend Fuzzy Search▲120

    I have spent several years working on search engines in the backend and have now utilized that experience to develop a fuzzy search library for the frontend. It's fast, accurate and can be used for all languages. It should be easy to integrate into your Javascript / Typescript projects. If you test it and find any edge cases that did not work for you please let me know. The implementation is based on 3-grams by the book, augmented with a novel trick of sorting the characters within the 3-grams for enhanced accuracy. For a detailed explanation you may refer to my related blog post at…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    URX App Search API▲109

    the first deeplink search engine for developers

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    A search engine based on RSS feed▲134

    The best RSS Search experience you can find. Contribute to davidesantangelo/dato.rss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Apisearch▲77

    Apisearch is a performant search-engine as a service

    2021 · apisearch.io · its alternatives →

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    Appbase.io▲92

    Build relevant search with NoCode, JS components or REST API

    2020 · reactivesearch.io · its alternatives →

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    Super Simple Search▲107

    Finally, great search for any website

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Fist – Persistent Full Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C▲124

    A lightweight full-text index server with a focus on speed and efficiency. - GitHub - f-prime/fist: A lightweight full-text index server with a focus on speed and efficiency.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Highly cost-efficient search engine in Rust▲61

    Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability. Contribute to quickwit-oss/quickwit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mixpeek▲78

    Full-text file search API for your app

    2021 · mixpeek.com · its alternatives →

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    Serpdog Google Search API▲67

    An API which allows you to obtain Google search results

    2022 · serpdog.io · its alternatives →

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    Index and search *all* your documents▲21

    Hey HN! I've build a simple tool to index and search your documents. This uses two great open source libraries: apache tika (for extracting content from docs) and apache lucene (for searching). It's been built with kotlin ktor as a web framework. You can index all kind of files (i.e doc, docx, xls, ppt, pdf, txt, html even ORC pdfs) and then search them using very advanced queries like "always contain X", "never contain X", "X near Y", wildcard search, proper stemming support etc. We're using it on my work where we have hundreds of thousands of doc/docx/pdf files and it works…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Searchbase – Plug-n-play semantic/fuzzy search for your data▲63

    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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