https://slightlymore.co.uk/tags/searching/Recent content in Searching on slightlymoreHugoen-GB<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="license">CC BY 4.0</a> by Clinton MontagueSun, 25 Jan 2026 00:14:01 +0000https://slightlymore.co.uk/useful-search-engines/Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://slightlymore.co.uk/useful-search-engines/<h2 id="meta-search">Meta search</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kagi.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kagi ↗️</a> premium (paid for and ad-free) search prioritising privacy and user experience. Reminiscent of the good-old-days</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SearXNG ↗️</a> self-hostable, open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from 200+ engines. There are hosted versions but privacy or veracity is not guaranteed</li> </ul> <h2 id="specialist">Specialist</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.virustotal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virus Total ↗️</a> meta engine for checking files and their hashes against virus databases</li> <li><a href="https://www.shodan.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shodan ↗️</a> is an engine to find devices connected to the internet</li> <li><a href="https://search.censys.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Censys ↗️</a> searches hosts, IPs, certificates</li> </ul> <h2 id="exploits-and-cve-databases">Exploits and CVE databases</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.exploit-db.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ExploitDB ↗️</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.rapid7.com/db/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rapid7 ↗️</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vulnerability Lab ↗️</a> </li> <li><a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NIST NVD ↗️</a> </li> <li><a href="https://gtfobins.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GTFOBins ↗️</a> </li> <li><a href="https://cirt.net/passwords/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Default password database ↗️</a> </li> </ul>