Alt-Power Search Your Google results got quite worse recently? Trying to escape Big Tech and get back your time? Value your privacy? Do you value your time? Are you longing for Google the way it was years ago? Alt(ernative), Power Search is a general-purpose internet search engine, committed to bringing you the best search experience. Alternative and akin to Google, which it has its roots in, just somewhat better—the interface is slightly clunkier and more verbose, like a very well stocked, vast but easily searchable, ancient but up-to-date library of structured internet content. We hope you like it as much as we do, but your mileage may vary! Settings JavaScript is required but disabled. Country / locale: Loading… Open results links in new tabs Show AI-generated summary Dark theme 🌗 Safe Search 🧒 Reload the page for the changes to take effect. Advanced Search Operator Syntax Alt-Power Search follows industry-standard advanced search operator syntax similar to Google's, namely summarized in the following table: Table 1: Advanced power-search operators supported on Alt-Power Search (most of these are also supported on Google). Placeholder {query} stands for the user's full search query, and other placeholders are fittingly named. Use these powerful query modifiers and techniques to improve the quality and relevance of your search results. Most used advanced search operators Search query format Examples Explanation "{query}" "to be or not to be" Exact (verbatim) match, matching word order and character spacing and all. -{query} jaguar -car Minus sign (-) just before any negative words, irrelevant for the query. {query1} OR {query2} (WordPress OR Joomla) guide Use OR to find any of several options. Surround with parentheses if using other keywords. ext:{file extension} ext:pdf boletus Search only among file types / files with extension. site:{domain} site:gov memes site:cz.wikipedia.org Limit search results to a specific website or domain. Additional / convenience operators {from}..{to} 10..35 kg $10..$120 2010..2011 To define the search range, put two full stops (..) between the low and high numbers, trailing with an optional unit of measurement. This can be used e.g. for product prices and publication dates. after:{date} after:2001-09-11 Show results discovered after the specified date (in ISO 8601 date format: YYYY-MM-DD). before:{date} before:2020-03-12 Show results discovered before the specified date (in ISO 8601 date format). intitle:{keyword} allintitle:{query} allintitle:Index of Show only results where the keyword (or the whole query) is contained in HTML <title> text. intext:{keyword} allintext:{query} ext:java intext:executeUpdate Show only results where the keyword (or the whole query) appears in the page main article text. inurl:{keyword} allinurl:{query} inurl:"cgi-bin/koha" Show only results where the keyword (or the whole query) appears in the page URL. imagesize:{width}x{height} pussy imagesize:1920x1080 Filter images by exact size when in Images tab. location:{location} sweet home location:Alabama Show results tailored to a country or location. {source loc.} to {dest loc.} New York to Rome After running the query, simply click on the Maps refinement/tab to get instant navigation directions between source and destination locations. See also: map:. weather:{location} weather:Cairo Pages reporting weather at location. stocks:{ticker} stocks:GOOG Results related to a specific stock/futures/forex/crypto market ticker. map:{location} map:Stockholm to Paris Results related to a specific address or location, including navigation directions. schema:{schema type} schema:JobPosting RDF/Structured search based on Schema.org types that are expected to be present on the result web page. Click on Structured data link next to each result to see types and entities present on that particular web page. When applicable, you can additionally sort results pages by date, title ‼️, price, rating ⭐️, citations, generalized structured data, etc. Reasons to Use Alt-Power 🙵 The Importance of Search Even at the dawn of the age of AI, a reliable search tool is as important as ever. Alt-Power is free, fast, exact, correct, intuitive, privacy-conscious, and empowering for You the User, maintaining its motives pure and free of conflicts of interest. In your personal effort to degoogle, try Alt-Power. Join the resistance. Take back control! ✊ Is Google Getting Worse? — Freakonomics What happened to Google search? It has become nearly impossible to find relevant results. — Reddit Enshittification (of Google Search) — Wikipedia We're gonna make more money if we make the search engine worse, and nothing bad will happen to us. — Cory Doctorow for Novara Media [...] the happier users are, the less Google earns. — Search Engine Land With all the generative AI slop, it's increasingly important to prefer search engines that still behave like tools, not omniscient oracles. Alt-Power features: visible result counts to judge query quality, full target URLs to assess sources at a glance, first-class structured/Schema search to extract machine-readable facts, powerful results ordering controls (e.g. strict sort-by-date, title etc.), practical search facets covering most popular real-world research tasks, and more. Try Alt-Power today! Set as Default Search Engine Alt-Power Search can be configured to return search results proactively (at initiation), by setting the search query parameter ?q= when constructing the URL. You can add this powerful search engine to your web browser now: Mozilla Firefox: simply right-click on the location bar and select Add Alt-Power Search; Google Chrome (instructions also cover Microsoft Edge, Chromium, Brave, Opera & Vivaldi)—if the option for this search engine doesn't show up, try first to ☰ > Delete Browsing Data in the app menu. On Firefox Mobile and any other supporting browser, including for programmatic access, you can set the search query parameter ?q=, i.e. input the search URL: /?q=%s, where %s stands for the URL-encoded query in the target program. Seems to work correctly. Decluttered, simple results. I've set it as default on most devices and so far I'm quite satisfied with the results. Can't believe I'm saying this, but it's 2026 and I let myself become convinced to try and change my default search engine. Turns out it's what I've been missing in life! Open Source Alt-Power Search Engine is generously powered by Programmable Search Engine (Google CSE). This single-page progressive web app itself is open-source software, licensed to you under the terms of GNU AGPL. See its source code simply by right-clicking on the website, selecting View Page Source item from the context menu (and piping the output through htmltidy or somesuch). This HTML + CSS + VanillaJS code is the whole public source code and is assuredly stable and extraordinarily easy to maintain. Everything else is provided by Google CSE. If you discover any new bugs, please report them through the contact link below. Terms of Use 🙵 Privacy Policy Hereby using this website, you agree to abide by Google's Privacy & Terms. This website itself does not collect or process any personal data from visitors, but third parties, including Google, may be placing and reading cookies on your browser. Search activity on Alt-Power is not logged in your Google My Activity timeline. Your browser or device may offer additional settings to choose, per site, whether browser cookies are enabled and options to delete them: Mozilla Firefox: simply press Ctrl+I on a site, tab Permissions; Google Chrome (also Chromium). Global Privacy Control and Sec-GPC HTTP header should work across browsers and systems. Feedback 🙵 Contact If you think a certain search facet (e.g. Books) is missing a good and reliable source (e.g. not showing results from YourBookstore.com), or with any other bugs or feedback to report, feel free to write us here.