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
- K rugle 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