Google Programmable search engine Alternatives

Google Programmable search engine is described as 'Adds a customizable search box to your web pages and show fast, relevant results powered by Google Search' and is an website in the online services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Google Programmable search engine, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best Google Programmable search engine 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 Programmable search engine are OpenSearch, Apache Solr, Pagefind and Manticore search.

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  1. 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.

    46 Sphinx (search engine) alternatives

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  2. Metasearch icon
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    Search aggregator for Slack, Google Docs, GitHub, and more.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Heritrix icon
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    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

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    • Mac
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  4. Qdrant icon
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    Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload Qdrant is tailored to extended filtering support.

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    • Cloudron
     
  5. Milvus icon
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    Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.

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    • Linux
    • Docker
     
  6. 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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  10. With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website.

    32 Google Custom Search Engine alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. 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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  12. 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...

    26 Xapian alternatives

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    • Free
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    • BSD
     
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