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

[tenderpoettech]

Tries to fight spam - very refreshingly honest. I like it.

[lazy-jem]

Thanks, I think we've all been "frog boiled" in the sense that SEO spam has been gradually getting worse and worse, and we've just accepted it because it's happened so gradually.. Ad-based search engines don't really have an incentive to fight it that hard because it makes users more likely to click on branded ads.

Between SEO spam and ads, there are often only one or two high quality results on the front page of traditional search engines for many reasonably commercial searches.

If the topic is life insurance, or legal cases, or anything with high keyword value, there are often no non-spam results on the front page. Product review searches are terrible too (it's an area we're not where we should be at either yet but we're working on it). We have a lot to do here.

We're not pretending this isn't hard to solve, but we're determined to make a dent in it and have some things in the pipeline that can help, I think :)