Lieu is a neighbourhood search engine, a way for personal webrings to increase serendipitous connexions.
Federated Webrings
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.
Webrings | Indie Web DB | Indie Web DB
A database of webrings, made by Petrapixel. Neocities.
Webring
A webring is a collection of websites linked together in a circular structure, usually organized around a specific theme, and often educational or social. They were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, particularly among amateur websites.
Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google [Updated]
On Tuesday, Google held its I/O developer event, and introduced an AI-forward version of Google Search that the company described as an "intelligent search box" powered by the newest version of Gemini. It turns out Google's all-new version of search semi-breaks when you search for the word "disregard". Typing "disregard" into Google Search results in Google's AI interpreting it as a system-style instruction instead of a search query. "Understood.
lieu — alexander cobleigh / cblgh.org
a purpose-built community search engine and how to use it
Fixing Search
Search on the web, for most people, has become a deplorable experience. It is such a key function that it can feel unfixable, but by treating search as an architectural component of the web (which it effectively is) and working our way through the issues it creates, we can define an alternative that is both realistic and superior.
Introduction
A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.
atproto-aware concept search engine
a mockup of a webpage search engine that only indexes webpages that are referenced in atproto records. Surfaces related links based on social and community context.
About - Ringspace Trusted Webrings: Protocol Specification
Ringspace is an attempt to revive the old concept of webrings, but with an added twist: mutual verification of identity and reputation. Historically, webrings were simply a “doubly-linked list” of sites, in which each member provided links to the previous and next members in the ring. A simple concept, brilliantly effective in its time to organize the web into discrete, discoverable communities in a time before search engines.
LOCALHOST DWeb Vancouver Webring
Lieu-powered DWebYVR webring. Contribute to DWebYVR/localhost_vancouver_webring development by creating an account on GitHub.
edoardottt/awesome-hacker-search-engines
A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more
Web search· Ollama Blog
A new web search API is now available in Ollama. Ollama provides a generous free tier of web searches for individuals to use, and higher rate limits are available via Ollama’s cloud.
OpenSearch description format - XML | MDN
The OpenSearch description format can be used to describe the web interface of a search engine. This allows a website to describe a search engine for itself, so that a browser or other client application can use that search engine. OpenSearch is supported by (at least) Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Chrome. (See Reference Material for links to other browsers' documentation.)
Litter Layer
Indie search engine for discovering personal and small-web sites — built largely by visitors like you.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
