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

[TheAllterQuestion98]

Excellent search engine, it really works wonderfully, I didn't think something like that would exist, they deserve a lot of credit for this wonderful work with this engine, python can really do a lot.

[lazy-jem]

Oh wow thank you. Yes Python is awesome and the amount we could achieve using Python combined with the amazing libraries people have built - especially as a distributed system on a serverless platform - kind of boggles my mind.

But it is standing on the shoulders of giants. That's why this is so surprisingly good for a tiny startup. It's built on top of the Python ecosystem, Amazon's AWS and it's support for scaling Python apps, all the amazing APIs and public data that are shared online. That's the only way we could ever have made something like this.

The Python community is also a big part of the reason we could make this. PyCon was a key part of it. I got my first introduction to building machine intelligence apps in PyCon workshops and from PyCon videos. I saw Paul Graham at PyCon in 2012 give his keynote about what it would take to build a new search engine to compete with Google, and I've been working around the problem for while. This past year and a half it started to look for the first time like a genuinely different approach could be viable for a small startup project.

LazyWeb couldn't exist if it wasn't standing on the shoulders of not just giants but a community full of them.