emerging · -0.4

Web Search

Score 22.3 / 100 16 providers +8 via APIs 11 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Web SearchWebSearchweb searchweb-search

Providers using this tag (16)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
DiffbotExtractionHarvestingScrapingWeb9 APIs71.4
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ParallelCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAgents2 APIs65.0Cracked APIai agentsagent toolsmcptool router1 API64.0Parallel Web SystemsCompanyAi MlDeep Research2 APIs61.1ExaArtificial IntelligenceSearchNeural Search7 APIs59.2SerperSearchSERPGoogle SearchArtificial Intelligence2 APIs56.7BrowserbaseHeadless BrowserBrowser InfrastructureWeb AutomationAI Agents1 API55.2NimblewayCompanyWeb DataWeb ScrapingData Extraction1 API54.6
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
InterfazeCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine-LearningLLM1 API46.8TavilySearchAI AgentsLLMs1 API46.5Google Custom SearchCustom SearchGoogleImage SearchSearch1 API45.8SeltzCompanyAI InfrastructureRetrieval1 API42.5LinkupArtificial IntelligenceLLMGrounding1 API39.7
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Microsoft BingSearchImageVideos18 APIs37.8Marginalia SearchOpen-SourceSearch1 API27.8
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
BlekkoCompanySearchSearch Engines

APIs with this tag (11)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure WebSearch APIThe WebSearch API from Microsoft Azure — 1 operation(s) for websearch.73.3
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Cracked APIREST/HTTP API to discover, inspect, run and poll third-party agent tools, with smart-run capabilities, lead...64.0Microsoft Web Search APISearch the web for relevant results60.4Perplexity Responses APIThe Responses API (Agentic Research API) provides access to third-party frontier models from providers like...56.9Perplexity Search APIThe Search API enables developers to perform ranked web searches with advanced filtering including domain, ...56.9
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Gemini Deep Research APIAgentic research capability powered by the Interactions API that autonomously plans, executes, and synthesi...48.0StepFun Web Search APIWeb search and text-to-image search endpoints (POST /v1/search) billed per call as value-added capabilities.47.6
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Microsoft Bing WebSearch APIThe WebSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for websearch.37.8You.com Search APIThe You.com Search API returns real-time web search results tailored for AI agents and LLMs, with controls ...36.9Brave Search API - Web SearchREST endpoint for general web search results with country, language, safe-search, and freshness filtering. ...36.7APIs.io Engineering Platform WebSearch APIThe WebSearch API from APIs.io Engineering Platform — 1 operation(s) for websearch.35.5

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Web Search” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

APIs.io Engineering Platform Brave Gemini Microsoft Microsoft Azure Perplexity StepFun You.com

Score breakdown

Frequency
40.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
58.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Image Search 6 co-occurrences Video Search 5 co-occurrences Monitors 5 co-occurrences Search 19 co-occurrences Image 6 co-occurrences LLM 6 co-occurrences Research 6 co-occurrences Agents 9 co-occurrences

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Provider tag17
Api tag12
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag3

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