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. CloudSh icon
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    CloudSh will automatically index your website and provide analytics for what people are searching for and what they are finding. Setup is easy and works with static site generators, like Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Anvere icon
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    ANVERE gives your users a smart search experience that returns meaningful results within split-milliseconds. No config, no fine-tuning needed .

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Sooqr icon
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    Sooqr is an instant & relevant onsite search engine for both product & content. Hassle-free installation - up and running within 15 minutes, and no developer needed. Sooqr Search is cloud-based, faceted & customisable.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Shopware
    • OpenCart
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Magento Community Edition
    • WooCommerce
     
  4. Zevi.AI icon
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    Zevi is a site search engine that is build with NLP and AI at its core. With Zevi a customer can easily pass through your website and give back ranked results based on the businesses preference. Zevi makes site Information discovery a breeze.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Enhance your image searching with a command-line tool enabling semantic search locally via node-mlx. Utilizing CLIP model embeddings stored as binary JSON for indexing serves rapid queries without any reliance on third parties, ensuring efficiency even with extensive image collections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • npm
     
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    ZIR AI allows application developers to add sophisticated ML-powered text search to their applications and platforms. It provides high performance gRPC APIs for indexing and running queries, encryption in transit and rest, and an OAuth 2.0 security model.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Sparq icon
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    Sparq is a fast and a beautiful search solution for Shopify store owners. It allows store owners to upgrade their default search to an extremely fast, more user friendly and feature rich Sparq Search.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Shopify
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Simplify how agents connect to enterprise data. Build high-impact AI apps with one centralized solution for agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
     
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    Chili Search replaces the WordPress default search with a lightning fast, full-ajax and accurate search.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • HTML
    • Wordpress
     
  11. 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
     
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