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 Algolia. 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. Whoosh icon
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    Whoosh is a library of classes and functions for indexing text and then searching the index. It allows you to develop custom search engines for your content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. RediSearch icon
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    Redisearch implements a search engine on top of Redis, but unlike other Redis search libraries, it does not use internal data structures like sorted sets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. swiftype icon
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    The easiest way to add great search to your website

    Swiftype is a hosted software service that eliminates the need to create your own search software from scratch, making it possible for any website owner or mobile app developer to add great search to their product. Features inc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    i-Search Pro changes the way of WordPress Search. It’s full WooCommerce compatible. Provide Live search results in milliseconds. Include almost everything in your search results.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
    • wordpress i-search pro is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Google Custom Search .

    • wordpress i-search pro is Paid and ProprietaryGoogle Custom Search is Free and Proprietary
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    With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Site Search 360 icon
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    An intelligent yet easy-to-install site search for any website. Simply start typing to get search autosuggestions and semantically enriched structured data at your fingertips.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    OpenSearchServer is an open source application server allowing development of index-based applications like search engines. Main features of OpenSearchServer are : An integrated crawler for databases, web pages and rich documents; a user friendly GUI allowing development of most...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Xapian icon
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    Xapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is a full text search engine library for programmers. It is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. ItemsAPI icon
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    The goal of ItemsAPI is creating search application without spending time for backend. You just provide json data and your backend is ready to go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • elasticsearch
    • Heroku
    • Node.JS
     
  10. Searchbar.org icon
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    Increase your sales and iterations with your target audience with a search bar integrated with your site in a moment. Gain accessibility with search predictions, delivering relevant content for your readers and followers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Cludo Site Search
    • Algolia
    • elasticsearch
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. FreeFind icon
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    Free site search engine. Add a site search engine to your website today, for free, in less than ten minutes. Choose from Free and Pro site search engines.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Expertrec custom search started as a replacement for google site search. It adds super-fast search autocomplete, spell correct, search listing pages to your website.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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