===== 🔍 Search Engines =====

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==== General Search Engines ====
    * [[https://www.google.com|Google]] — The most widely used web search engine  
    * [[https://www.bing.com|Bing]] — Microsoft’s search engine  
    * [[https://duckduckgo.com|DuckDuckGo]] — Privacy-focused search engine  
    * [[https://www.startpage.com|Startpage]] — Google results with enhanced privacy  
    * [[https://search.yahoo.com|Yahoo Search]] — Web search with integrated news and content  
    * [[https://yandex.com|Yandex]] — Russian search engine with strong image search  
    * [[https://www.baidu.com/|Baidu]] — Leading Chinese search engine  
    * [[https://swisscows.com/en|Swisscows]] — Family-friendly, privacy-based search  
    * [[https://www.qwant.com|Qwant]] — European privacy-focused engine  
    * [[https://search.brave.com|Brave Search]] — Independent index, privacy-first  
    * [[https://www.mojeek.com|Mojeek]] — Independent UK crawler-based search  
    * [[https://metager.org/|MetaGer]] — German metasearch engine with anonymization  
    * [[https://www.ecosia.org|Ecosia]] — Eco-friendly search engine that funds tree planting  
    * [[https://marginalia-search.com/|Marginalia]] — Alternative search engine for the “small web”
    * [[https://www.ask.com/|Ask.com]] — General purpose search engine  
    * [[https://www.lycos.com/|Lycos]] — Legacy search and portal site  
    * [[https://search.com/|Search.com]] — Meta search across engines  
    * [[https://all-io.net/|All-in-One Search]] — Multi-engine meta search  
    * [[https://www.alltheinternet.com/|AllTheInternet]] — Web and multimedia search  
    * [[https://www.etools.ch/|Etools]] — Swiss metasearch engine  
    * [[https://www.faganfinder.com/|FaganFinder]] — Advanced metasearch utilities  
    * [[https://www.izito.com/|iZito]] — European metasearch engine  
    * [[https://www.myallsearch.com/|MyAllSearch]] — Multi-source meta search
    * [[https://www.webcleaner.com/|WebCleaner]] - Search top internet search engines from one page    

==== Academic and Research Search ====
    * [[https://scholar.google.com.au/|Google Scholar]] — Search scholarly literature and academic papers  
    * [[https://app.litmaps.com/|Litmaps]] — Visual literature discovery and citation network  
    * [[https://www.semanticscholar.org/|Semantic Scholar]] — AI-powered academic search  
    * [[https://www.base-search.net/|BASE]] — Bielefeld Academic Search Engine for scholarly resources  
    * [[https://core.ac.uk/|CORE]] — Access millions of open access research papers  
    * [[https://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat]] — Global library catalog  

==== Advanced Search and Dorking ====
    * [[https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database|Google Hacking Database (GHDB)]] — Community-curated Google dorks  
    * [[https://pentest-tools.com/information-gathering/google-hacking|Pentest-Tools Google Hacking]] — Automate Google dorking  
    * [[https://booleanstrings.com/|Boolean Strings]] — Advanced boolean queries for OSINT  
    * [[https://www.google.com/advanced_search|Google Advanced Search]] — Google advanced search form  
    * [[https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/35890|Google Search Operators]] — Official operator reference  
    * [[https://yandex.com/support/search/en/search-results/settings|Yandex Advanced Operators]] — Yandex operator reference  
    * [[https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/advanced-search-keywords-ea595928-5d63-4a0b-9c6b-0b769865e78a|Bing Search Operators]] — Bing operator reference  
    * [[https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax|DuckDuckGo Syntax]] — Search syntax and operators  
    * [[https://www.baidu.com/gaoji/advanced.html|Baidu Advanced Search]] — Baidu operator guide  

==== Specialized Search Engines ====
    * [[https://www.socialmention.com/|Social Mention]] — Real-time social media search  
    * [[https://www.social-searcher.com/google-social-search/|Google Social Search]] — Google-powered social media search  
    * [[https://search.carrot2.org/|Carrot2]] — Clustered search results visualization  
    * [[https://docjax.com|DocJax]] — Document search engine  
    * [[https://publicwww.com|PublicWWW]] — Search source code and analytics IDs  
    * [[https://osint.sh/buckets/|osint.sh]] — Search exposed cloud buckets  
    * [[https://buckets.grayhatwarfare.com|GrayHatWarfare]] — Public S3 bucket search  
    * [[https://isearchfrom.com|I Search From]] — Google search simulator for location/device  
    * [[https://marginalia-search.com/|Marginalia]] — Alternative search engine focusing on smaller sites  
    * [[https://www.no-nonsense-intel.com/adverse-media-search-tool|Media Search Tool]] — Adverse media OSINT search tool  
    * [[https://www.shodan.io|Shodan]] — Search for internet-connected devices  
    * [[https://censys.io|Censys]] — Search infrastructure and SSL certificates  
    * [[https://fofa.so|FOFA]] — Internet-wide search engine  
    * [[https://www.zoomeye.ai|ZoomEye]] — IoT and cyberspace search    
    * [[https://leakix.net|LeakIX]] — Search exposed services and databases
    * [[https://netlas.io/|Netlas.io]] — Internet-wide search and analytics  
    * [[https://millionshort.com/|Million Short]] — Search engine that omits top sites for discovery  
    * [[https://www.islegitsite.com/|IsLegitSite]] — Check if a website is legit or scam
    * [[https://grep.app/|Grep.app]] — Search Github indexed source code