QuinnyCoded@QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨hexagonwin@lemmy.today⁩

literally 5 posts down from this one there is someone who’s spent 2 years making their own search engine because Google is shit lmao

lemmy.world/post/49999317

lemmy.worldNeoSearch: Open-source, ad-free, private web search now open source - Lemmy.WorldI’ve spent the past two years building NeoSearch [https://neosearch.org/] with a simple premise: search got bad not because the web got worse, but because the incentives did. Ads, profiling, and SEO all pull results away from what I actually wanted. NeoSearch is my attempt to fix that. It’s private by design (no cookies, no IP logging, no profiles, no ads), and it uses AI to improve results rather than replace them: independent sources get ranked above affiliate listicles, titles and snippets are rewritten to say what a page actually is, duplicate results get merged into one enriched entry, and “Lenses” let you flip between meanings — search “eagles” and choose the band or the football team. Currently it takes the top results from Google’s index as raw material, then re-ranks, rewrites, and enriches them so heavily that Google’s #20 result can land at #1. That’s stage one, to prove the experience. Stage two is crawling the parts of the web mainstream engines ignore. The end goal is an
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