Elephind was a search engine for digitized versions of newspapers from various countries, with the goal of making it possible to search all digitized newspapers from a single website.

Elephind was a search engine specifically for digitized versions of historical newspapers, allowing the user to freely search across various newspaper archive websites instead of visiting each individual site.

When the user clicked on a search result, they were directed to the online archive where it could be accessed.

[4] Many of the newspapers were on the deep web and could not be accessed through other search engines such as Google.

[5] Optional registration allowed users to bookmark and comment on newspapers.