I built a prototype for client-side, fully distributed search for the IndieWeb — check out the demo & a little explainer.
Litter Layer
Indie search engine for discovering personal and small-web sites — built largely by visitors like you.
Welcome - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
Michael Granitzer University Passau and Open Search Foundation, Coordinator of OpenWebSearch.EU
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.
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.
Distributed Press Site Index
Explore the Distributed Press ecosystem. Find sites leveraging decentralized publishing.
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
Staan — The European Search API for developers & AI
An independent European web search index. Real-time, source-cited results from €2 per 1,000 requests — 1,000 free each month.
Optimizing web search using social annotations
This paper is concerned with the problem of browsing social annotations. Today, a lot of services (e.g., Del.icio.us, Filckr) have been provided for helping users to manage and share their favorite URLs and photos based on social annotations. Due to the ...
Stacktracer's Dev Shrine
Surfing the IndieWeb is fun! Like many people my age (old millenial here, to be specific), I miss the Internet of the 90's and early 2000's. Until a couple of years age I thought it was gone for good. Luckily, I was wrong. The small web is all about non-corporate homepages and websites made by individuals. I won't go into details on why this is cool. For now, let me just point you in the right direction so you can see for yourself.
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.
Search engines
Features and comparisons for when I’m “search engine shopping” and not so much about enshittification etc. Currently I mostly use DuckDuckGo (for when I basically know what I’m looking for) and Kagi (for when I don’t or if I’m dissatisfied with DDG; I’m not on their unlimited plan).
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Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads
Searching for 'Disregard' Breaks Google [Updated]
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