Google Custom Search Alternatives

Google Custom Search is described as 'Adds a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google Search. It is useful in the ways that is free, but has quite bad crawlers for YOUR website' and is an website in the online services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Google Custom Search , not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Google Custom Search alternative is Meilisearch. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Algolia or Elasticsearch. Other great sites and apps similar to Google Custom Search are OpenSearch, Apache Solr, Manticore search and Searchspring.

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  1. Meilisearch icon
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    Meilisearch helps you shape a delightful search experience in a snap, offering features that work out-of-the-box to speed up your workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. Algolia icon
     78 likes

    Algolia helps product teams connect their users with information by providing the building blocks they need to create fast, relevant, personalized search.

    70 Algolia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android SDK
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Angular
    • cURL
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Node.JS
    • Objective-C
     
  3. Elasticsearch icon
     53 likes

    Unmatched relevance. Real-time insights. Anything is possible — when the precision of search meets the intelligence of AI.

    66 Elasticsearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. OpenSearch icon
     9 likes

    OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

    37 OpenSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. Apache Solr icon
     26 likes

    Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document handling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  6. Open source search server designed to be fast, scalable and with powerful and accurate full-text search capabilities derived from Sphinx search project.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Searchspring provides solutions for online retailers such as site search, personalization, merchandising, and insights. It's compatible with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, and Miva.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Typesense icon
     6 likes

    An open source, blazing fast, typo tolerant search engine for building delightful search experiences. Focuses on developer happiness and ease of use, with a painless out-of-the-box experience.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Pagefind icon
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    Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
     
  10. Sphinx is a software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC-compliant databases as data sources natively. Other data sources can be indexed via pipe in a custom XML format.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Heritrix icon
     5 likes

    Open-source, extensible web crawler designed for large-scale, archival-quality web archiving, preserves digital artifacts, supports modular plugins, distributed crawling, detailed monitoring, scheduling, and exports data in standardized formats for preservation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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