Google has launched a dedicated search engine for datasets called Dataset Search. The engine indexes more than 45 million datasets from over 13,000 websites and is designed to facilitate easier discovery of detailed statistical information across verticals and industries.

Dataset Search provides essential metadata about datasets and previews of the data where available. Users can then follow the links to the data repositories that host the datasets. To ensure that a dataset is discoverable, dataset authors or providers must publish their dataset in a way that specifies how others can reuse the data and ensure that the web page that describes the dataset has machine-readable metadata.