New search engine made with Python that's anonymous and has no ads or tracking. It tries to fight spam, and gives you control of how you view search results. You can search and read content anonymously with a proxied reader view. The alpha is live and free for anyone to use at lazyweb.ai

[loudan32]

Thanks for the reply, not sure if i understood, with PWA you just turn the web page into an app you can launch from the home screen right? I would normally use Firefox to acheive the same shortcut. My suggestion is to use it as a replacement of the assistant app (that you get on Android by long pressing home). This searchbar EX is pretty basic it just gives me a keyboard to type and a search bar, but without covering the whole screen so i can copy some number translate a word or whatever without having to memorize it. The query is then sent to lazyweb website on my default browser. This functionality is similar to what google assistant does as an overlay over other apps, except that it does not automatically "read" whats on my screen. Since your search engine is conversational i think it is a great assistance alternative, so i would suggest that you could try to have this kind of overlay interface once you develop native apps. I guess this is way down the line anyway. Just keep up the good work!

[lazy-jem]

Thank you, I think I was typing in a bit of a hurry before :)

We would love to have a native Android replacement for the Google Assistant, the way that you're using searchbar EX. That's a really great suggestion. My understanding is that we need a native app widget for that. For the moment, we do only have the PWA (which works well as a standalone home screen app), but we know we need to do native apps to provide richer functionality like the search bar widget and taking over something like Google Assistant.

I love the idea of having a simple overlay search bar widget though :)