Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Semantic Search for Ctrl+F
Hi HN! Ctrl+F sucks because I can never seem to find what I'm looking for. I built an NLP-based alternative that works pretty damn well. Let me know what you think. P.s. it will soon support image searches
Semantic Search for Ctrl+F is a browser tool that replaces the standard find function with natural language processing to help users locate content more effectively. It's designed for anyone frustrated with traditional… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Semantic Search for Ctrl+F launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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If you've ever used CTRL+F on websites or documentation, you'll love this functionality.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a small project i made years ago and updated to whisper last year, i still use it from time to time and thought it might be useful to others, or just put the idea out there for someone better than me to make a better implementation!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to build semantic search systems. From machine transition to question-answering.
2021 · pinecone.io · its alternatives →
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Sifty Search▲63Online tool for searching through documents. CTRL+F on crack
2019 · its alternatives →
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🔎 Search the information available on a webpage using natural language instead of an exact string match. - model-zoo/shift-ctrl-f
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Much improved new version. Search for words similar to the query. For example, "death" will find "death", "dying", "dead", "killing"... Incredibly useful for exploring large text datasets where exact matches are too restrictive.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Locus▲96AI-powered CTRL + F for quick document search on Chrome
2023 · locusextension.com · its alternatives →
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Local first semantic and hybrid BM25 grep / search tool for use by AI and humans! - GitHub - BeaconBay/ck: Local first semantic and hybrid BM25 grep / search tool for use by AI and humans!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN Over the New Year's break, I created semanticvideosearch.com. This can search any video based on meaning and context. I would love to get your feedback on it. What should I change and what can be improved? The preprocessed videos can be search very quickly, while the youtube video links take some time (yt videos also have a upper duration limit due to compute issues). I intend to add search based on the frames of the video soon. I would love to know your thoughts on the demo and any suggestions for improvements. Thanks! PS: the inspiration to create this was to get the 2 mins of…
2023 · semanticvideosearch.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I am Anubhav from Ramanlabs. We have been working on a native gui application to allow users to search any video data( mp4, mkv) or video streams (http/rtsp) using computer vision. Application is supposed to work like a video player which displays decoded frames and recognizes objects concurrently, making it an interactive experience. It works in super real-time and only expects a quad-core CPU with AVX2 instructions at minimum. Application is free to download (without any signup/account). We are only supporting WINDOWS for now [0]. Even though this is a binary application,…
2022 · ramanlabs.in · its alternatives →
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Hi folks! I created a frontend-only live semantic search engine based on transformers.js and sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2. Simply pour in your text and a query term. Hit enter and watch the search engine in action! It's highly customizable and stores the embeddings in a variable so that consecutive runs are very fast. You can tweak the segment length to reduce computation time or get get more precise results. I would be very happy to discuss some more usage ideas or receive PRs for improvements. Introduction blog post:…
2023 · geo.rocks · its alternatives →
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local-first semantic code search engine. Contribute to kantord/SeaGOAT development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…
2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →
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an exploration in reading and understanding code
2021 · artifacts.bypaulshen.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote this tool to get familiar with CLIP model, I know many people have written similar tools with CLIP before, but I'm new to machine learning and writing a classic tool helps my study. The unusual thing with my version is, it is in pure Node.js, with the power of node-mlx, a Node.js machine learning framework. The repo in the link is mostly about implementing indexing and CLI, the code of the model implementation lives as a Node.js module: https://github.com/frost-beta/clip . Hope this helps other learners!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built a search engine for art that uses natural language prompts to find real artwork instead of generating art.
Oct 2025 · semantic.art · its alternatives →
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Hey all, Last time when we were on HackerNews [1], we received a lot of feedback, and we incorporated most of it. - We have changed our name from grep.help to usegrasp.com - A privacy policy page - Bulk import - Pricing page We are happy to introduce a new feature: a personalized answer search engine that provides direct citations to the content on the page. Demo: https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949
2023 · usegrasp.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension: Gives Ctrl+F like find results which include non-exact (fuzzy) matches using string edit-distance and GloVe/Word2Vec. Also searches by regular expressions. - GitHub - ijkilchenko/Fuzbal: Chrome extension: Gives Ctrl+F like find results which include non-exact (fuzzy) matches using
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Search any webpage for ideas rather than just words.
Aug 2026 · ultra-ctrlf.dragotoba.com · its alternatives →
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