Phind
PhindSearch tuned for developers, with code in the answer.
An independent web index with a straightforward per-query API.
Products that need a general web index without depending on Google or Bing
Heavy scraping of result pages — the API returns a fixed set of fields
Brave runs its own index, which makes it the obvious alternative when a product cannot depend on a single upstream provider. The API is conventional: query in, ranked results out, with snippets and optional extra fields. Independent does not mean identical — coverage of long-tail pages differs from the major engines, and that shows up in evaluation.
Search tuned for developers, with code in the answer.
Search API shaped for agents: results plus a short synthesised answer.
Paid, ad-free search with an API and no engagement optimisations.
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