Curated collection
5 handpicked search engines tools with curated descriptions — free to browse, no signup. Also available as an interactive tab on the Lumina homepage.
Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search and answer engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with citations from online sources. It combines real-time web search with multiple large language models to generate responses, making it a research tool for quick, reliable information, unlike traditional search engines that provide a list of links or chatbots that focus primarily on creative tasks.
Google AI Mode is Google Search's built-in conversational AI experience that answers complex, multi-part questions with fully AI-generated responses, helpful links, and follow-up questions. Powered by Gemini, it works free without sign-up for limited queries and unlocks more advanced capabilities with a Google account.
Ask Brave is Brave Search's free AI answer engine that combines Brave's independent web index with grounded, cited AI responses. It keeps no user profiles or tracking, making it a private alternative to other AI search engines, and works directly from Brave Search without a subscription.
Scira AI is a free, open-source AI-powered search engine that provides accurate and instant information with citations by combining multiple AI models and real-time web search. It serves as an alternative to tools like Perplexity AI, focusing on a minimalistic design for fast and trustworthy results, including for research, data analysis, and even code analysis.
iAsk AI is a free AI-powered search and answer engine designed to provide detailed, factual responses to natural language queries. Unlike traditional search engines that return a list of links, iAsk.Ai uses advanced algorithms and transformer neural networks to interpret the context of a question and generate direct, comprehensive answers.