motominer.com

What It Is

MotoMiner is a vertical search engine for automotive classified listings. The site describes it as “the first true automotive web search engine.” Rather than primarily relying on dealers or individuals to upload inventory manually, it uses crawlers to identify, extract, and index vehicle detail pages (VDPs) across the web, then presents relevant vehicle results to car shoppers. According to the text, since launching in 2014, it has indexed more than 1.5 billion vehicle detail pages.

Core Capabilities

The product focuses on search for new cars, used cars, certified pre-owned vehicles, wholesale vehicles, and damaged vehicles. It supports filtering by make and model, body type, price, ZIP code, and other criteria, and provides deep links to the dealer’s original VDP. MotoMiner also offers car-buying research information such as deal rankings, price history, and average prices, though some features may be hidden in regions such as Texas due to legal restrictions. Individual users can list vehicles for sale for free and communicate with buyers via anonymous email; dealers can use a URL submission tool to help the crawler discover their websites.

Pricing and Deployment

The text does not disclose SaaS plans, enterprise editions, or paid pricing. Consumer-facing search and private-party vehicle listings are explicitly free. In terms of infrastructure, MotoMiner runs on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform and is a cloud-based service. There is no mention of self-hosted deployment, a public API, team permissions, or enterprise integrations.

Pros and Cons

Its advantages are that its coverage model is closer to a general-purpose search engine and is not constrained by paid listing feeds; search results link directly to dealer pages, reducing lead capture by intermediary platforms; and it clearly states that it does not capture or sell car shoppers’ personal information. Its limitations are that data freshness depends on crawler cycles, so prices or inventory may differ from the source site; broad searches return a maximum of 3,000 results; and information commonly expected from enterprise software—such as permissions, audit logs, APIs, SLAs, and security certifications—is missing.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is better suited to U.S. car shoppers, private-party sellers, and dealers who want to increase exposure for vehicles on their official websites. It does not appear to be an enterprise-grade SaaS product that can be directly procured. The text does not provide information about access from China, so its availability is unknown.