Independent Web Indexes (10)

Their own crawl of the web. Not Google, not Bing – independent search indexes you can query via API.

5 strong choices for AI builders

Selected from 10 tools in this category. Equal-weighted; not ranked 1–5.

UK privacy-first search engine with its own independently built ~3.6B page index – the first search engine to pledge no tracking.

Open-source, non-profit search engine building its own index with a focus on user-customizable ranking and transparency.

Independent search engine focused on non-commercial, text-heavy content – surfaces the 'old web' that Google buries.

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Machine-readable web data feeds covering news, blogs, forums, and the dark web – pre-indexed and structured for enterprise consumption.

API access to Yandex's own search index – the dominant search engine in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe.

French privacy-focused search engine with its own partial index, GDPR-native, and backed by European institutional investors.

Open, decentralized search index project aiming to build a community-owned alternative to Google and Bing.

Open-source search engine with its own index, built by a single developer – one of the oldest independent web crawlers still operating.