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Search every index. See where they disagree.

One engine is one organisation’s opinion about what exists. This asks six at once, keeps the results apart by how many agree, and shows you what the archive holds that no live index will return any more.

Six indexes asked at once — live engines and the archive — and the results kept apart by how many of them agree. Domains, companies and subjects. Named people need an account.

The indexes, and what silence from each one means

  • DuckDuckGo Instant Answerlive

    A reference index of definitions and topics, not a web crawl. Nothing here means the subject has no encyclopaedic footprint, not that it is absent from the web.

  • Wikipedia full-textlive

    The one index whose inclusion rules are public and argued over. Silence means no article mentions the subject in passing, which is a real fact about notability and nothing else.

  • Internet Archive capture indexarchive

    Addressed by URL, so it is only consulted when the query names a domain. Silence for a domain means the archive holds no captures, which is unusual for anything that has been public for long.

  • Brave Searchlive · your key

    An independent crawl of the live web. Not consulted without a Brave Search API key, and a search without it is materially narrower.

  • Google Programmable Searchlive · your key

    Google’s index through its published API. Not consulted without an API key and a search engine id, and a search without it omits the largest index there is.

  • Yandex Searchlive · your key

    The strongest crawl of the Russian-language and CIS web. Not consulted without a Yandex Search API user and key; for a great deal of due-diligence work this is the gap the western indexes leave.