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. ParadeDB icon
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    ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. Built for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
     
  2. Findberry icon
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    Findberry is an internal site search service that enables web developers and site owners easily add professional, ad-free search engine to their websites so that their visitors can find content faster and easier.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Vespa icon
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    Vespa is an engine for low-latency computation over large data sets. It stores and indexes your data such that queries, selection and processing over the data can be performed at serving time.

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    • Linux
     
  4. TinySearch is a lightweight, fast, full-text search engine. It is designed for static websites.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Sharitek icon
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    Sharitek enables search by image for e-commerce websites and apps via Visual Search API. How it works? User snaps or uploads a picture of what they want to buy and finds the exact or similar products. It is developed by computer vision AI.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Open-source neural search framework for text, images, audio, or video. Leverages pre-trained neural network algorithms to index and query data without need for complex rules and fragile pipelines.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Appbase.io provides a supercharged Elasticsearch experience with a #nocode relevance control plane (or JS UI components or a declarative REST API) and out-of-the-box search/click analytics and insights.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • elasticsearch
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Lixia Search is a customizable site search engine with a Search API. It's lightning fast, works on all devices, gives you full control and is easy to install.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Coveo icon
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    The Coveo Relevance Cloud™ is a market-leading AI-powered relevance platform. We aim to enable our customers to deliver the relevant experiences that we believe people expect in the new digital economy.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Most website users don’t bother with menus. They instantly start searching on your website to find what they need. We created Findability to give you the best search experience across your website. Pages, documents and even images are easily findable with one simple search.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Tribus icon
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    Enterprise search, simplified. Cloud-based enterprise search solution that search across all of your organization’s content sources — Aconex, Procore, Dropbox, Microsoft Sharepoint, Onedrive, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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