Open source Google Site Search alternatives
Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 1 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Google Site Search alternative; 0 more are in the category where Google Site Search is a typical product.
Projects that call themselves a “Google Site Search alternative”
Source: the project's GitHub description or README.
codelibs · Search Engines
Alternative to (project's own claim): Google Site Search
Common commercial products in this category: Algolia, Elastic Cloud, Azure AI Search
- Full-text search with faceting, sorting, and search suggestions
- Crawlers for web sites, file systems, and data stores (databases, cloud storage, and SaaS)
- Support for many document formats, including Microsoft Office, PDF, and archives
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Default crawler does not run all Web Crawlers
“I have around 5K web crawlers configured with `max_access` = 32. When I start the default crawler, it only seems to to a portion of these - like maybe a 100 and then stops. The only suspicious thing I see in the logs is `Future got interrupted`. Otherwise it seems to look ok but…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Database connection
“Hello there, Details on the document are inadequate, do you have any information on how to do it? @marevol”
Verified against README · Oct 28, 2026 · source