Comment by BrunoBernardino
17 days ago
I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based (early) Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).
We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs always work if the results aren't satisfactory).
It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately.
If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.
[2] https://kagi.com
So you build your own Internet-scale search engine, that's what you're saying?!
What stack do you use? How much data is in your indexes ?
Oops, sorry if that wasn't clear, we're not building a search engine index (yet). We'll definitely do it if we get enough people interested in paying for such a product, though. Right now we're using APIs for other search indexes, like Mojeek and Marginalia, then sprinkling some basic local algorithms to tweak the results and apply the preferences to boost/downrank/exclude domains and TLDs (which is everyone's favorite "feature").
Stack-wise, it's very "boring" (as in, it generates and serves the HTML + bits of JS to enhance settings and such), using Deno in the backend and PostgreSQL for the DB.
Oh, got it, thanks for clarifying!