Search with Specialty Engine
This document lists 27 specialty search engines for various purposes, including academic research, business, cybersecurity, FTP file sharing, news media, people search, scientific literature, and more. Some notable examples include Google Custom Search, Internet Archive, Microsoft Academic, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Shodan, and Wolfram Alpha.
2lingual Search: This is a bilingual search engine that allows you to type in keywords in two languages.
Academic Index: Offers a collection of over 300,000 curated and reviewed academic resources.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): A global search engine for academic web resources, offering over 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers.
BeVigil: Allows you to search for assets such as Subdomains, URLs, and Parameters in mobile applications.
Biznar: A deep web business search engine that brings you authoritative information from various business-related sources.
ChemSpider: A free chemical structure database providing access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
CiteSeerX: A public search engine for scientific and academic papers, primarily with a focus on computer and information science.
CORE: Aims to aggregate all open-access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide, providing free unrestricted access to research for all.
Criminal IP: A Cyber Threat Intelligence Search Engine and Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform.
Google Custom Search: A tool that allows you to create a search engine for your website, your blog, or a collection of websites.
GrayhatWarfare: A search engine to browse the files of the internet, specifically useful for cybersecurity and related domains.
Harmari (Unified Listings Search): A search tool that scours listings from online classifieds websites.
Internet Archive: A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Intelligence X: A search engine and data archive that provides a platform for free and anonymous access to data.
Mamont: An FTP search engine that lets you find files that are being shared through FTP servers.
Media Cloud: A news media search engine for aggregating, analyzing, and visualizing online news content.
Microsoft Academic: An initiative by Microsoft to assist human-led scientific research by leveraging a machine’s cognitive power in memory, computation, sensing, attention, and endurance.
Million Short: A search engine that removes the top 1 million most popular websites from its index to provide results from less trafficked, possibly more obscure, sources.
Netlas.io: A passive DNS, WHOIS, SSL, and open ports search engine for IT security specialists, investigators, and researchers.
OCCRP Aleph: A tool for journalists, supporting global collaborative investigative journalism.
Pipl: A people search engine that provides contact, social, demographic, and professional information about individuals.
PubMed: A free search engine providing more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
ScienceDirect: A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from peer-reviewed journals and books.
Semantic Scholar: An AI-powered research tool for scientific literature based at the Allen Institute for AI.
Shodan: A search engine for the Internet of Things that allows you to search various servers connected to the Internet using various search filters.
Social Searcher: A free social media search engine that monitors all public social mentions on social networks and the web.
WIPO: The World Intellectual Property Organization’s search engine for trade and service marks.
Wolfram Alpha: A computational knowledge engine that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data.
WorldWideScience.org: A global science gateway comprising national and international scientific databases and portals.
Zanran: A search engine for data and statistics, providing quick results in the form of graphs and charts.