Best search MCP servers for Zed

Marginalia MCP — independent web search over a non-commercial, non-SEO index.

Exa MCP — neural/semantic web search + content retrieval (exa.ai)

IEEE Xplore MCP — BYOK wrapper over the IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API

Domains MCP — domain registration lookup + availability search over live RDAP (ICANN standard…

Web scraping API for AI agents.

PLOS Search MCP — Solr-backed search over all PLOS journals.

Radar MCP — wraps the Radar Geocoding / Search API (radar.com)

Openverse MCP — Creative-Commons-licensed image + audio search.

North Carolina General Statutes — state statutes by citation, plus topic search.

Hacker News MCP — search and retrieve stories from Hacker News

Brave Search MCP — independent web index (no Google/Bing dependency)

UK first-tier tribunal decisions — GOV.UK search + content API.

Poshmark Comps — sold-price search on the public Poshmark marketplace

SEO Keywords MCP — search volume & difficulty via DataForSEO Labs (dataforseo.com)

Illinois Compiled Statutes — state statutes by citation, plus topic search.

Bonanza MCP — 'Bonapitit' API (api.bonanza.com/docs), search + item detail

Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) — judgment search.

39Trust score 39 of 100, Limited

Search rule34.xxx posts by tag through the site's own API. Needs a rule34.xxx API key.

Gmail integration with OAuth authentication, message search, batch operations, and Sheets export

Search 1,492 filmed exercises by muscle, equipment, pattern and joints to avoid; get substitutes.

38Trust score 38 of 100, Limited

Connect AI agents to Exa for web search, content fetching, and multi-step research.

AI-powered code indexer with semantic search and knowledge graphs

Create, update, complete nodes, search & replace with regex and dry run, usage reports, transforms

38Trust score 38 of 100, Limited

The official Redis MCP Server is a natural language interface designed for agentic applications to manage and search data in Redis…