PeARS is an open-source, curated search engine that lets you take control of your search. It has privacy and energy efficiency at its core.
greppr - Search, the way it used to be.
Search the Internet with no filters, no personalization, no ads.
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
Litter Layer
Indie search engine for discovering personal and small-web sites — built largely by visitors like you.
Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time
If you’re tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated—and human-centric—way to find what you’re looking for.
ParadeDB — Search without a second system
One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.
Hister | Your Own Search Engine
Hister is a private, self hosted search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. Search from the web, terminal, command line, or MCP.
Personal information firehose · Adam Wiggins
My new research project asks whether a personal algorithm, inspired by social media, can help us filter our email, group chats, and other personal correspondence.
Personal information firehose · Adam Wiggins
My new research project asks whether a personal algorithm, inspired by social media, can help us filter our email, group chats, and other personal correspondence.
Xapian
Xapian is a free and open-source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).[2] It is a full-text search engine library for programmers.
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
IndieSearch
I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.
tantivy
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
The enshittification of online search? Privacy and quality of Google, Bing and Apple in coding advice
Even though currently being challenged by ChatGPT and other large-language models (LLMs), Google Search remains one of the primary means for many individuals to find information on the internet. Interestingly, the way that we retrieve information on the web has hardly changed ever since Google was established in 1998, raising concerns as to Google's dominance in search and lack of competition. If the market for search was sufficiently competitive, then we should probably see a steady increase in search quality over time as well as alternative approaches to the Google's approach to search. However, hardly any research has so far looked at search quality, which is a key facet of a competitive market, especially not over time. In this report, we conducted a relatively large-scale quantitative comparison of search quality of 1,467 search queries relating to coding advice in October 2023. We focus on coding advice because the study of general search quality is difficult, with the aim of learning more about the assessment of search quality and motivating follow-up research into this important topic. We evaluate the search quality of Google Search, Microsoft Bing, and Apple Search, with a special emphasis on Apple Search, a widely used search engine that has never been explored in previous research. For the assessment of search quality, we use two independent metrics of search quality: 1) the number of trackers on the first search result, as a measure of privacy in web search, and 2) the average rank of the first Stack Overflow search result, under the assumption that Stack Overflow gives the best coding advice. Our results suggest that the privacy of search results is higher on Bing than on Google and Apple. Similarly, the quality of coding advice -- as measured by the average rank of Stack Overflow -- was highest on Bing.
Peer Knowledge Assisted Search Using Community Search Logs
Search engines have become an increasingly important educational tool. By just typing a few keywords into a search engine text-box, finding information has become an easy exercise. However, some people cannot use search engines effectively for
