google_cse

MCP tool from Free Search MCP by sweetcornna

Google Custom Search

How to use it

google_cse is exposed by the Free Search MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the google_cse tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Free Search MCP

$claude mcp add search -- uvx free-search-mcp # Claude Code

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Other tools in Free Search MCP (28)

AnySearch

keyless Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) video search via the public

, baidu — intermittent challenges to headless clients.

Brave Search API

news / pdf / github / paper / forum / blog

zenodo

exclude_domains

["pinterest.com"]

"beginner"

stackexchange, hackernews

day / week / month / year

github (repos + issues/PRs), githubcode (needs a token)

GitHub

keyless Google web SERP scrape (HTTP first, Playwright

openverse

include_domains

["python.org", "djangoproject.com"]

"async"

24

googlenews, gdelt

book search over the Internet Archive catalogue.

arxiv, openalex, crossref, pubmed

meta-search proxy via public SearXNG instances; included for

Serper (Google)

, so360 — Chinese web indexes, HTML scrapes, best-effort like

Stack Apps (key optional)

browser-rendered (~5-10s/query); good for hard-to-reach

Tavily (AI search)

encyclopedia search; language follows SEARCHMCPREGION.

best-effort keyless Zhihu (知乎) search. Zhihu's