My personal list of OSINT sources: search tools
All the informations are online, you just need to know how to find them
In a previous post, we discovered the real power of OSINT sources, now let’s start to see some helpful links from my personal list.
Today the focus is on the searching tools
General purposes search engines
- Advangle
A simple and convenient builder of complex web-search queries. - Aol
- Ask
- Bing
- Dothop
- DuckDuckGo
Anonymous search engine - Excite
- Factbites
- Gigablast
Distributed open source search engine (sourcecode on GitHub) - Goodsearch
- Info.com
- Infospace
- Instya
Search multiple search engines, shopping sites, dictionaries, answer sites, news, images, videos - iSEEK Education
Targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers - ixquick
- Mojeek
Independent, alternative, and unbiased search results with no user tracking - Oscobo
No Tracking. Just Search. - SurfCanyon
“Real-time contextual search technology that observes user behavior in order to disambiguate intent “on the fly,” and then automatically bring forward to page one relevant results that might otherwise have remain buried.” - Wolfram Alpha
Computational Knowledge Engine - Yahoo! Search
Specialty search engines
- 2lingual Search
Get Google Search Results alongside Google Cross Language Search Results. - Biznar
Federated search engines that search multiple databases in real-time. - CiteSeerX
Search engine focused computer literature and information science. - FindTheCompany
A corporate intelligence site that uses Graphiq’s semantic technology to deliver deep insights via data-driven articles, visualizations and research tools. - Harmari
Ads search engine - Boardreader
Forums and Discussion Boards Search - Internet Archive
Nnon-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites - WorldWideScience.org
Search on national and international scientific databases and portals - Zanran
Multiple data search engine - Clarify
Access to data hidden in online audio and video.
Similar sites search
- Google Similar Pages
Chrome extension to discover pages similar to the page you’re currently browsing - SimilarPages
- SimilarSites
- SimilarSiteSearch
- SitesLike
Clustering search engines
- Carrot2
Organizes search results into topics - Cluuz
Extracts important terms and images, clusters them and gives them in semantic graph and in a tag cloud - Yippy
Metasearch engines (aggregators)
- Dogpile
Combined results from a Google and Yahoo - Etools
Combined results from 18 search engines. - Goofram
Combined results from a Google and Wolfram Alpha - iZito
Combined results from Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, YouTube, Wikipedia, Entireweb - Zapmeta
Really similar to iZito - Metabear
Russian and FTP search - Qrobe
Combined results from multiple search engines - Qwant
Anonymous metasearch engine - WebCrawler
Combined results from a Google and Yahoo
Code Search
- NerdyData
Search for a specific piece of code into website sourcecode - SearchCode
Search code snippets on major sourcecode repositories - Krugle
Search code snippets on major sourcecode repositories
Image Search
- Bing Images
- GoodSearch Image Search
Image search powered by Yahoo - Google Image
- Image Identification Project
A function in the Wolfram Language that identifies the content of an image. Image Raider
Reverse image search- SocialCatfish
Reverse image search - KarmaDecay
Reverse image search on Reddit - Picsearch
An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures. - Reverse Image Search
Simple reverse image search tool - StolenCameraFinder
Uuse the serial number stored in your photos to search the web for other photos taken with the same camera - TinyEye
Reverse image search - Worldcam
Geo search of instagram photos - Yahoo Image Search
- Yandex Images