AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MiniSearch, a minimalist search engine with integrated browser-based AI
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,…
MiniSearch is a minimalist search engine that combines traditional web search results with browser-based AI analysis. Using Web-LLM and Transformers.js, it runs AI models directly in the browser on desktop and mobile… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MiniSearch, a minimalist search engine with integrated browser-based AI launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Perplexity Labs▲638We built a search engine interface on top of OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing that summarizes and cites top search results in response to natural language questions. By using search results, the AI is able to reference recent news and provide citations for specific facts. Our interface offers concise answers, without having to click through links, scroll past irrelevant content, or read ads. No login is required; no personal data is collected. We believe in the power of combining the intuitive UI of web search with the intelligence of large language models. The search engine does indexing…
2025 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I am Jiayuan, and I'm here to introduce a tool we've been building over the past few months: Devv (https://devv.ai). In simple terms, it is an AI-powered search engine specifically designed for developers. Now, you might ask, with so many AI search engines already available—Perplexity, You.com, Phind, and several open-source projects—why do we need another one? We all know that Generative Search Engines are built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)[1] combined with Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of the products mentioned above use indexes from general search engines…
2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →
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RankAI▲581Hey HN, we are building Rankai (https://www.rankai.ai), an AI agent that pushes SEO blogs and code fixes automatically to your site. My teammate previously scaled a product to 4M users via organic traffic and SEO. And we understood the importance of driving SEO traffic for small businesses. But after we talked to a lot of small businesses and startups, we realized that majority are not doing SEO at all. For them, learning and doing SEO weekly is too time-consuming, and no way they'd hire an agency for $4k+. So we tried to automate each step of SEO process in an agentic way using…
Apr 2026 · rankai.ai · its alternatives →
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Lessie AI▲406Hi HN! I’m Yanjun, co-founder of Lessie AI. We built Lessie AI as a People Search AI Agent — designed to help you find anyone in seconds: - Influencers for campaigns - Partners for collaborations - Experts for insights - Founders or investors to connect with Instead of spending hours doing LinkedIn / Google searches, Lessie automates the whole workflow: - Understand your request — type what you need, any role or profile - Search across multiple data sources — trying different strategies to find the right people - AI review + scoring — profiles are automatically filtered and ranked so…
Apr 2026 · lessie.ai · its alternatives →
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AI SEO My Site▲404Get your website ready for AI powered search engines
2023 · thesamur.ai · its alternatives →
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Automate your SEO and start ranking
2024 · searchatlas.com · its alternatives →
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I built this tool because I wanted a way to just take a bunch of URLs or domains, and query their content in RAG applications. It takes away the pain of crawling, extracting content, chunking, vectorizing, and updating periodically. I'm curious to see if it can be useful to others. I meant to launch this six months ago but life got in the way...
2024 · embedding.io · its alternatives →
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Tiny LLMs▲94Powerful browser-based AI models for a wide array of tasks
2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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We’ve trained a generative AI model to browse the web and answer questions/retrieve code snippets directly. Unlike ChatGPT, it has access to primary sources and is able to cite them when you hover over an answer (click on the text to go to the source being cited). We also show regular Bing results side-by-side with our AI answer. The model is an 11-billion parameter T5-derivative that has been fine-tuned on feedback given on hundreds of thousands of searches done (anonymously) on our platform. Giving the model web access lessens its burden to need to store a snapshot of human knowledge…
2022 · beta.sayhello.so · its alternatives →
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2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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GoSearch Free▲163GoSearch is the newest AI-powered enterprise search solution — by the makers of GoLinks, a YCombinator company. Available now at gosearch.ai! If you’re still reading, check out our other new product that just launched: GoProfiles.io, the only AI-powered HR platform.
2025 · gosearch.ai · its alternatives →
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MiniSearch is celebrating its 1st birthday! Exactly one year ago, I shared the initial version of this side-project here. Since then, there have been numerous changes under the hood. I use it daily as my default search engine and have done my best to make it useful. I hope it's interesting for you too!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there! When Supabase announced their recent hackathon, I thought it was a good time to build something to learn more about so many of the new AI models and tech out there. From the different techniques of embedding documents to the future RAG. With the rise of short form content with TikTok and Youtube. A lot more knowledge is in videos than ever before. Finding specific answers within millions of videos can be difficult for any one person to go through. So the question is if there is Google that indexes text on website making it easier to find based on the context of on your question,…
2023 · avse.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Meilisearch AI▲241Boost relevance and UX with fast hybrid and semantic search
2025 · meilisearch.com · 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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Trails▲81Hey all, Justin here. I previously built Phind, the AI search engine for developers. One of the biggest problems we had there was figuring out what went wrong with bad searches. We had tons of searches per day, but less than 1% of users gave any explicit feedback. So we were either manually digging through searches or making general system improvements and hoping they helped. This problem gets harder with agents. Traces are longer and more complex. It takes more effort to review them, so I'm building a tool that lets you analyze LLM outputs directly to help developers of LLM apps and agents…
Jan 2026 · trails-red.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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An experimental AI-organized search results page
2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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GenSearch▲15Your Personalized AI-Powered Search Engine Builder
2024 · gensearch.serenebase.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I’m Kamil. The past months have been filled with news about ChatGPT, Bard, etc. Thankfully, there are some heroic attempts to bring that power to the users. I wanted to contribute to that effort with my side project, an extension for Chrome: it makes searching the history by meaning – instead of the exact words – possible. This is only a proof of concept, building on the excellent transformers.js[0], and running entirely in the browser. My goal here is to explore the possibilities unlocked by a client-side AI. I would love to have your feedback, to know which direction that project…
2023 · getpinbot.com · its alternatives →
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Phind▲120AI search engine with visual answers & agentic capabilities
2025 · phind.com · its alternatives →
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Personalized search and Q&A with AI on your own documents
2024 · thirdai.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node - lucaong/minisearch
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TinyFish▲102Enterprises need ~90% accuracy to deploy web agents. Until now, no agent has come close on real-world tasks. TinyFish is the first production-ready web agent. Here's the evidence. Results of hard task scores on Online-Mind2Web (300 tasks, 136 live websites, human-correlated judge): - TinyFish: 81.9% - OpenAI Operator: 43.2% - Claude Computer Use: 32.4% - Browser Use: 8.1% Why not WebVoyager like everyone else? Because it's broken. Easy tasks, Google Search shortcuts, and a judge that agrees with humans only 62% of the time. Browser Use self-reported 89% on WebVoyager — then scored 8.1% on…
Aug 2026 · tinyfish.ai · its alternatives →
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