{
  "dataset": "Searches.com Search Tool Capability Baseline",
  "version": "1.0",
  "published": "2026-08-23",
  "methodology": "https://searches.com/research/search-tool-capability-dataset.html",
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      "slug": "perplexity",
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      "category": "ai",
      "primary_job": "AI answer synthesis",
      "access_model": "Freemium",
      "source_visibility": "Inline citations",
      "retrieval_scope": "Web retrieval + AI synthesis",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kagi",
      "slug": "kagi",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/kagi.html",
      "category": "ai",
      "primary_job": "Premium web search",
      "access_model": "Paid subscription",
      "source_visibility": "Result URLs",
      "retrieval_scope": "Search ranking + lenses/domain controls",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Scholar",
      "slug": "google-scholar",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/google-scholar.html",
      "category": "academic",
      "primary_job": "Scholarly discovery",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Publication/citation records",
      "retrieval_scope": "Scholarly literature",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Semantic Scholar",
      "slug": "semantic-scholar",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/semantic-scholar.html",
      "category": "academic",
      "primary_job": "AI-assisted scholarly discovery",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Paper/citation records",
      "retrieval_scope": "Scholarly corpus",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "PubMed",
      "slug": "pubmed",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/pubmed.html",
      "category": "academic",
      "primary_job": "Biomedical literature",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Citation/abstract records",
      "retrieval_scope": "MEDLINE + NLM records",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "DuckDuckGo",
      "slug": "duckduckgo",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/duckduckgo.html",
      "category": "privacy",
      "primary_job": "Privacy-oriented web search",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Result URLs",
      "retrieval_scope": "General web retrieval + privacy model",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Brave Search",
      "slug": "brave-search",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/brave-search.html",
      "category": "privacy",
      "primary_job": "Independent privacy-oriented web search",
      "access_model": "Free / premium options",
      "source_visibility": "Result URLs",
      "retrieval_scope": "Independent web index + search features",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "GitHub Search",
      "slug": "github-search",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/github-search.html",
      "category": "code",
      "primary_job": "Repository/code discovery",
      "access_model": "Free / GitHub account",
      "source_visibility": "Repository/file context",
      "retrieval_scope": "GitHub-hosted code and metadata",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sourcegraph",
      "slug": "sourcegraph",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/sourcegraph.html",
      "category": "code",
      "primary_job": "Enterprise code search",
      "access_model": "Enterprise",
      "source_visibility": "Repository/file/symbol context",
      "retrieval_scope": "Cross-repository/code-host search",
      "primary_audience": "Human + developer",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Lens",
      "slug": "google-lens",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/google-lens.html",
      "category": "images",
      "primary_job": "Visual web/object search",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Linked visual/web results",
      "retrieval_scope": "Visual recognition + web/product retrieval",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "TinEye",
      "slug": "tineye",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/tineye.html",
      "category": "images",
      "primary_job": "Reverse-image matching",
      "access_model": "Free web / commercial APIs",
      "source_visibility": "Matched image pages",
      "retrieval_scope": "Image fingerprint matching",
      "primary_audience": "Human + API",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pinterest Lens",
      "slug": "pinterest-lens",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/pinterest-lens.html",
      "category": "images",
      "primary_job": "Visual inspiration discovery",
      "access_model": "Free account",
      "source_visibility": "Pins/product links",
      "retrieval_scope": "Pinterest visual/content graph",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Indeed",
      "slug": "indeed",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/indeed.html",
      "category": "jobs",
      "primary_job": "Broad job discovery",
      "access_model": "Free for job seekers",
      "source_visibility": "Job/employer links",
      "retrieval_scope": "Job marketplace + AI matching",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "LinkedIn Jobs",
      "slug": "linkedin-jobs",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/linkedin-jobs.html",
      "category": "jobs",
      "primary_job": "Networked professional job discovery",
      "access_model": "Free / Premium",
      "source_visibility": "Job/company/profile links",
      "retrieval_scope": "Professional graph + jobs",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wellfound",
      "slug": "wellfound",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/wellfound.html",
      "category": "jobs",
      "primary_job": "Startup job discovery",
      "access_model": "Free for job seekers",
      "source_visibility": "Job/company links",
      "retrieval_scope": "Startup talent marketplace",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Shopping",
      "slug": "google-shopping",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/google-shopping.html",
      "category": "shopping",
      "primary_job": "Product/merchant discovery",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Merchant/product links",
      "retrieval_scope": "Shopping Graph + merchant feeds",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wayback Machine",
      "slug": "wayback-machine",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/wayback-machine.html",
      "category": "archives",
      "primary_job": "Historical web retrieval",
      "access_model": "Free",
      "source_visibility": "Archived capture URLs",
      "retrieval_scope": "Historical web archive",
      "primary_audience": "Human-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    },
    {
      "name": "You.com",
      "slug": "you-com",
      "profile_url": "https://searches.com/tools/you-com.html",
      "category": "ai",
      "primary_job": "Web search/research infrastructure",
      "access_model": "Free tier + usage pricing",
      "source_visibility": "Source URLs / cited API answers",
      "retrieval_scope": "Web/news search APIs + research synthesis",
      "primary_audience": "Developer/AI-facing",
      "last_verified": "2026-08-23",
      "evidence_state": "documented capability baseline; not a performance score"
    }
  ]
}