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Search Engines

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Metasearch Engines and Search Engines

Search Engines differences

Online Services

  • Hopain Tools, Inteltechniques, IntelligenceX, Aware OSINT Tools — These serve as starting points for numerous general and specialized search engines, all heavily oriented towards OSINT.
  • Shodan — Search by ip, name, or domain
  • Fagan Finder — Offers a panel featuring dozens of search engines catering to libraries, archives, and databases.
  • Dogpile, iZito, zapmeta — Metasearch engines that aggregate results from popular search engines like Google, Yandex, and Bing, presenting them on a single page.
  • Metaosint — A search engine for search engines, providing a user-friendly interface to access other tools.
  • Synapsint — A metasearch engine with the capability to search by IP, SSL, ASN, CVE, email, and phone numbers.
  • ThatsThem — A combined search engine for names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and IP addresses.
  • Carrot2 — A search engine equipped with a built-in text clustering algorithm, automatically grouping thematically related sources.
  • Isearchfrom — Simulates search queries to Google from different countries, aiding in understanding how regional restrictions affect search results.
  • Answerthepublic — An English-language search engine that provides common search queries for a given phrase.
  • IntelTechniques Tools — Some tools of Michael Bazzell on his website
  • IntelX Tools — IntelX OSINT tools
  • OSINT Essentials — Some of OSINT investigation tools
  • InfoSecurity OSINT Tools — Same as above
  • Doxbin — Doxxing pastes on people
  • OSINT Framework — OSINT framework tree
  • Rawsec’s CyberSecurity Inventory : Reconnaissance — OSINT and Reconnaissance

Utilities

  • S — Allows searching 106 sources directly from the command line.
  • SpiderFoot — Automates search queries and exports results to CSV, JSON, or GEXF. Tailored for red team tasks, equipped with a built-in web interface.
  • Query-Server — Sends search queries to multiple search engines and writes the results in CSV, JSON, or XML.
  • Recon-ng — An open-source intelligence framework resembling the Metasploit Framework. Facilitates searches for logins, phone numbers, addresses, and publicly available financial statements.
  • Querytool — An OSINT tool based on Google Sheets, designed for complex searches of people, email addresses, files, and more.
  • Maltego Community Edition — A free OSINT tool for collecting information from various sources and identifying correlations between entities like people, email addresses, companies, websites, and domains.
  • sn0int — A framework for collecting and semi-automatically processing information about subdomains, IP addresses, compromised accounts, phone numbers, and social network profiles.
  • theHarvester — A console utility for collecting information for red teaming, conducting active and passive reconnaissance using various search engines. Gathers names, email addresses, IP addresses, subdomains, and URLs.
  • ReconSpider — A crawler for searching IP addresses, emails, websites, organizations, and retrieving information from diverse sources.
  • Mr.Holmes — Gathers information about user domains, names, and phone numbers using public sources and Google Dorks.
  • Datasploit — An OSINT tool found in Kali or BlackArch Linux, designed to collect data by specific domain, email, username, or phone number, and save reports in text files, HTML, and JSON.
  • YaCy — An open-source, decentralized search engine that enables users to deploy their own search engine.