AI Search Engines

Andi Search

Miami, United States

Andi Search is an AI-powered conversational search engine focused on providing friendly, accurate answers with strong source attribution, headquartered in Miami, Florida and founded by Angela Hoover and Jed White. Andi presents search results as a conversational AI assistant that explains content, summarizes web pages, generates direct answers, and shows visual previews of cited sources. The platform emphasizes safety, accuracy, and a friendly user experience with ad-free, tracker-free, privacy-respecting search, plus mobile apps for iOS and Android. Andi has been featured by major tech publications and gained popularity as a Google alternative for users seeking ChatGPT-style answers combined with traditional search results.

Brave Search

San Francisco, United States

Brave Search is an independent AI-powered search engine developed by Brave Software, founded by Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla) and headquartered in San Francisco, California with major operations in Brno, Czech Republic. Brave Search operates its own independent search index covering over 30 billion pages, providing privacy-focused search without tracking, AI-powered answer generation, the Brave Search API for developers, and optional AI summaries through Brave AI Answers. The search engine processes over one billion queries per quarter, is integrated as the default search in the Brave Browser, and competes with Google and Bing as a true index-independent search alternative.

Exa

San Francisco, United States

Exa is an AI-powered search engine and search API designed specifically for AI agents and developers, founded and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Will Bryk and Jeff Wang as Metaphor Systems and rebranded to Exa, the company provides semantic and neural search through the Exa API enabling AI applications to retrieve high-quality web content for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, and AI-powered applications. Exa serves thousands of AI startups and Fortune 500 customers with the Exa Search API, Exa Websets for structured web data extraction, the Exa consumer search interface, and dedicated infrastructure for AI agent search workflows.

Komo Search

Singapore, Singapore

Komo Search is an AI-powered conversational search engine designed as a fast, ad-free, privacy-focused alternative to traditional search, founded and headquartered in Singapore. Komo provides AI-generated answers with cited sources, conversational follow-up questions, the Komo Explore mode for guided research, Komo Resume for context-aware sessions, and access to multiple AI models including Claude and GPT. The platform emphasizes speed with sub-second response times, no advertising, no tracking, and a clean ad-free interface designed for users who want quick AI-augmented answers without the bloat of legacy search engines or excessive AI hallucinations.

Perplexity

San Francisco, United States

Perplexity is the leading AI-powered answer engine and search platform, founded in August and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski, Perplexity provides conversational search with cited sources, real-time web information, and multi-step reasoning across the Perplexity consumer product, Perplexity Pro subscription, Perplexity Enterprise, the Comet AI browser, and the Sonar API for developers. The company has reached over 30 million monthly active users globally and processes hundreds of millions of queries per month, raising over 500 million in funding from investors including Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, IVP, and NEA at a 9 billion valuation.

Phind

San Francisco, United States

Phind is an AI-powered search engine designed specifically for software developers, founded and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Michael Royzen, Phind specializes in technical search with AI-generated answers optimized for code, documentation, error messages, and programming questions. The platform features the proprietary Phind-405B and Phind-70B models trained for coding tasks, plus integration with frontier models including Claude and GPT-4. Phind provides real-time web search with citations, code snippets, syntax highlighting, multi-step reasoning for complex technical problems, and the Phind Pro subscription unlocks unlimited GPT-4o queries and faster response times.

You.com

Palo Alto, United States

You.com is an AI-powered search engine and productivity platform, founded and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, both former Salesforce researchers, You.com provides AI-augmented search with multimodal results, AI chat with multiple model selection (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Grok), AI image generation, AI writing, and the YouAgent autonomous research agent. The platform serves consumers through the You.com Pro subscription and enterprises through You.com Enterprise with private model deployment, source whitelisting, and SOC 2 compliance. You.com has raised over 99 million in funding from Marc Benioff, Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia, and other investors.