google Web
https://www.google.com/
Google search
How to use it
Master operators: site:, filetype:, intitle:, inurl:, quotes, minus, and date ranges via Tools. Combine operators to find documents others miss.
Open resource →
bing Web
https://www.bing.com/
Bing search
How to use it
Often indexes content Google misses; its visual search and maps are useful OSINT pivots.
brave Web
https://search.brave.com/
Brave independent search index
How to use it
An independent index (not Google-based) — use it to cross-check results and escape filter bubbles.
duckduckgo Web
https://duckduckgo.com/
Privacy search engine
How to use it
Anonymous searching with !bang shortcuts (e.g., !gh, !so) that jump directly into thousands of site searches.
startpage Web
https://www.startpage.com/
Anonymous Google proxy
How to use it
Google results without tracking; its Anonymous View lets you open pages through a proxy.
mojeek Web
https://www.mojeek.com/
Independent crawler search engine
How to use it
Fully independent index — finds pages absent from Google/Bing.
qwant Web
https://www.qwant.com/
European privacy search
How to use it
EU-based search with its own index, strong for French/European content.
baidu Web
https://www.baidu.com/
China's dominant search engine
How to use it
Essential for Chinese-language content; indexes WeChat ecosystem and Chinese sites Google can't reach.
sogou Web
https://www.sogou.com/
Sogou search
How to use it
Tencent-backed engine; its WeChat search (weixin.sogou.com) searches public WeChat articles.
so Web
https://www.so.com/
360 search
How to use it
Chinese search engine useful as a second source for Chinese content.
archive Web
https://archive.org/web/
Internet Archive
How to use it
Search archived web pages, books, video and software. The /web path is the Wayback Machine.
archive Web
https://web.archive.org/
Internet Archive
How to use it
Search archived web pages, books, video and software. The /web path is the Wayback Machine.
commoncrawl Web
https://commoncrawl.org/
Massive web-crawl archive
How to use it
Free petabyte-scale crawl data; query the index API to find historical captures of URLs programmatically.
webcheck Web
https://webcheck.xyz/
Website analyzer
How to use it
Enter a URL to get headers, DNS, SSL, redirects and tech-stack info in one report.