Impossibly fast web search, built for static sites.
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.
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.
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Search privately and without ads — Uruky
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools · Cursor
How we're building indexes for regular expression search so agents can find text in large monorepos without the 15-second ripgrep waits.
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.
IndieSearch
I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.
Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites
Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs
Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster
Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has…
Meilisearch: Unified Search & AI Retrieval Platform
Build lightning-fast search and AI retrieval with Meilisearch. Open-source, developer-friendly search engine trusted by 20,000+ teams worldwide.
Standard Search
A search engine for standard.site posts, indexing documents published on AT Protocol.
Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Welcome - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
Michael Granitzer University Passau and Open Search Foundation, Coordinator of OpenWebSearch.EU
Indexing Standard Site - AT Protocol
This guest post from Steve Simkins, creator of Sequoia and docs.surf, outlines the strategy he used to index standard.site records.
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.