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Big Search

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Collect search engines or websites then use / switch them on one UI (any website that supports GET/POST request. Even works with those don't support GET/POST). User cutomizable, with special technical features.

Browser Addon

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Online
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Vivaldi Browser
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera
  • Brave
  • Chromium
  • Firefox
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Properties

  1.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Multiple search engines
  2.  Meta-Search

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Big Search information

  • Developed by

    Garywill
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    11 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Online ServicesWeb Browsers

GitHub repository

  •  254 Stars
  •  16 Forks
  •  13 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 30, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Big Search, and it has gotten 2 likes

Big Search was added to AlternativeTo by garywill on Aug 4, 2021 and this page was last updated Feb 20, 2022.

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Top Negative Comment
Nick M
Jun 27, 2022
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Hi there!

  1. No Icons.
  2. No multiple links are open in one click. How can I select 5 or 7 links and open them at one time???
  3. No Russian language.
  4. No folders and SubFolders (infinity nesting).
  5. The visual design sucks 🤢🤮
  6. Can't get how to use it for this site? [https://andisearch.com](https://andisearch.com) The product is still raw. Right now I'm using Trufflepiggy and Selection Search. Take care 🖤

What is Big Search?

Handily use / switch any one or multiple search engines (or search any websites) via a flexible tool.

Basic

  • 🔎 Use any search engines or inquery websites (multiple uninterruptedly) from one UI. Any websites that support GET/POST.
  • 🔎 User adding custom-defined search engine (syncronizable in extension)
  • 🔎 Support using browser-installed search engines (browser extension)

More

  • 🖋? Single-line or multi-line text edit/input and sending Useful when for e.g. you want to have article paragraphs translated
  • 🗂? Search engines categorization
  • 📋 Save, reuse and manage your input history (only saved locally in the browser localStorage)
  • 🖱? Quickly use user selected text on webpage as search term (browser extension, context menu)
  • ?? Keyboard shortcut (browser extension)
    • Open popup
    • Set selected text as search termchrome://extensions/shortcuts
  • 🖥? Support both desktop (browser extension & web app) and mobile (web app only) devices

Even more: What's special about it

  • 🔎 Even works with those websites that don't provide GET/POST interface to public (so-called Ajax-only websites)
  • 🔎 Do many operations at once by one button
  • ? Good-looking, powerful and lightweight
  • 💪 Uses JSON as unified search engines database (both built-in and user-defined). Has strong flexibility & extensibility in engine data:
    • 🔲 Multiple buttons for one engine: more than one operations for one engine. (Buttons inherit data from engine. Some key-value data ??in button can override the ones in engine name)
    • 📞 Cross-engine use: Call another engine (or it's certain button action) to do the action
    • 🔏 String-formatting or character-replacing user's input, according to engine's need. And, charset specifying.
    • 🔎 Combining above two to search websites that don't support search

Special technical features make it more satisfying to technician people comparing to similar tools. Of course, it is also completely easy for ordinary people to use.

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