Search Directory
Every engine worth knowing, with a search box that takes you straight there.
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The Small Web
Personal sites, classic pages, non-commercial content. What the internet used to feel like. What Google buries.
Marginalia
small web
Specifically indexes non-commercial, small websites. Personal blogs, hobbyist pages, real humans writing about things they care about. The opposite of SEO content. Swedish, open source.
Wiby
small web
Indexes only old-school, lightweight web pages. No JavaScript-heavy sites, no content farms. If someone made a simple HTML page about a topic, Wiby probably found it. Feels like searching the 2003 internet.
Million Short
discovery
Removes the top 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, or 1,000,000 most popular sites from results. Forces discovery of smaller sites. Useful when Google keeps showing you the same 10 domains.
Forums & Discussions
Real people talking. Not articles, not marketing, not AI-generated content.
Boardreader
forums
Searches 300+ million forum posts. When you want to know what actual people said about something, not what a blog post summarized. Includes niche forums Google doesn't index well.
Hacker News
tech forums
Tech discussions, startup culture, developer perspectives. Dedicated search via Algolia. When you want to know what engineers think about something.
Reddit (via Google)
Adding site:reddit.com to a Google search. Often the fastest way to find real opinions, reviews, and troubleshooting from people who actually dealt with the thing.
Academic & Research
Peer-reviewed papers, actual data, primary sources. When you need the real thing, not someone's interpretation of it.
Semantic Scholar
academic
200+ million academic papers with AI-powered discovery. Shows citation graphs, related work, key findings. Free. When Google Scholar isn't cutting it.
Internet Archive
archive
The Wayback Machine and 735+ billion web pages archived. Books, films, software, music. When something disappears from the internet, it's probably still here.
Google Scholar
academic
The standard academic search. Papers, citations, patents, case law. Bigger index than Semantic Scholar but less intelligent discovery.
Non-English Perspectives
Independent indexes from other countries. Completely different source material, editorial slant, and coverage. Use the Parallel Search tool to auto-translate queries.
Yandex
russian index
Russia's search engine. Completely different perspective on global events. Strongest for Eastern European and Russian-language content. Try searching in Russian for genuinely different results.
Naver
korean index
South Korea's dominant search engine. Own index, massive Korean-language web coverage. Strong for tech, culture, and East Asian news. Search in Korean for best results.
Baidu
chinese index
China's search engine. Completely different internet. Valuable for tech hardware, manufacturing, and getting the Chinese perspective on anything US-centric. Search in Chinese for real results.
Qwant
european index
French, building their own European index (strong for French and German). Falls back to Bing for other languages. Good for EU perspective on regulation, policy, tech privacy.
Independent English Indexes
Their own crawlers, their own rankings. Not Google, not Bing, not wearing either as a costume.
Mojeek
own index
UK-based, fully independent crawler, no tracking. Smaller index but genuinely different rankings. The wildcard that surfaces things nobody else does.
Stract
own index
Open source with its own crawler. Independent ranking, no corporate agenda. Still young but growing. Supports advanced query syntax.
Yep
own index
Built by Ahrefs, one of the biggest web crawlers in existence. Their index is massive. They share 90% of ad revenue with content creators, so results favor real publishers over SEO farms.
Presearch
hybrid
Decentralized search with its own index supplemented by other sources. 40,000+ nodes. Privacy-focused. Interesting tech, still maturing.
Andi
hybrid
14 billion page index of their own, plus AI-generated summaries alongside results. Good for getting a quick synthesized answer while still seeing sources.
Brave Search
own index
Built their own index from scratch. Privacy-focused, no tracking. Falls back to Google/Bing for thin queries but core results are independent.
The Familiar
The ones you already know. Here for convenience, not discovery.
Google
own index
The biggest index. The baseline everything else is compared to.
Bing
own index
Microsoft's index. Powers DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yahoo, and most "alternative" engines behind the scenes.
DuckDuckGo
Bing's index with privacy and !bangs (shortcuts: !w for Wikipedia, !yt for YouTube, !g for Google). The !bangs alone make it worth having.
Startpage
Google's results without Google's tracking. Includes an "Anonymous View" proxy that lets you visit results without the site knowing who you are.
Ecosia
Bing's results, profits fund tree planting. Building their own European index alongside Qwant.