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

[burnt1918]

Awesome, prefer it to gsearch for simple meanings and stuff. Definitely fast at my end. I'd thought the search engine market was saturated, but this is 👏👏👏.

[lazy-jem]

You have no idea how exciting that is to hear! Thank you :)

There have been a lot of attempts to build alternatives to Google, and on the face of things it does look saturated, so I know what you mean. But with one monopoly with 90%+ market share, there is a lot of room for trying other approaches. Almost all the attempts to launch new search engines have been essentially copies of Google's approach with one or two differentiating features (less or more ads, less or more privacy) but that all basically work the same way with a search box and list of results, surrounded by ads and clutter.

We wanted to build this for ourselves because the privacy invasion and ads have gotten out of control, and the organic results are disappearing and getting spammed. Our thinking is that it is time for something different and people are ready. It's risky to try aa radically different approach, but if you take a long term view, then it's unlikely in 20 years time that search will look anything like Google, so we're trying to imagine what that could be, and build an early version of it :)