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  2. Searx - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

    Searx ( / sɜːrks /; stylized as searX) is a free and open-source metasearch engine, [4] available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. [5] [6] [7] To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results.

  3. Openverse - Wikipedia

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    Current status. Active. Written in. JavaScript, Python. Openverse is an open-source search engine for open content developed as part of the WordPress project. [2] [3] [4] It searches Creative Commons licensed and public domain content from dozens of different sources. [5] The software is licensed under the MIT License.

  4. Apache Lucene - Wikipedia

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    Website. lucene .apache .org. Apache Lucene is a free and open-source search engine software library, originally written in Java by Doug Cutting. It is supported by the Apache Software Foundation and is released under the Apache Software License. Lucene is widely used as a standard foundation for production search applications.

  5. DuckDuckGo - Wikipedia

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    History Early years DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. Self-funded by Weinberg until October 2011, DuckDuckGo was then "backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors." Union Square partner Brad Burnham ...

  6. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    mnoGoSearch is a crawler, indexer and a search engine written in C and licensed under the GPL (*NIX machines only) Open Search Server is a search engine and web crawler software release under the GPL. Scrapy, an open source webcrawler framework, written in python (licensed under BSD). Seeks, a free distributed search engine (licensed under AGPL).

  7. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL : Spotlight: macOS: Found in Apple Mac OS X "Tiger" and later OS X releases. Proprietary Strigi: Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows: Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02. LGPL v2 : Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix

  8. DocFetcher - Wikipedia

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    The program is an indexing search tool, meaning it has a local database of file content that it checks, rather than looking over all files on your machine. This means the program must always be running to monitor changes, but search results are instant. Search tools are based on Apache Lucene software, a widely-used, open source search engine.

  9. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...