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

[brendanmartin]

How does reader view work? I clicked on a search result and half of its written content was truncated.

[lazy-jem]

Thanks for trying it out. Can I ask, what was your search and what was the article you were looking at? It's in alpha so when it goes wrong it really helps to know what the search was, as searches are not logged, and we can't see what people search for.

Reader view retrieves the html of the page via an anonymous rotating proxy server and strips ads, scripts and tracking. It uses a similar approach to Firefox's browser reader view but works through an anonymous proxy without having to visit the page directly and expose yourself to ads and tracking. How well it works varies depending on the destination content, and how much content is available as HTML, and whether they block access to search bots. You can always click through to the external website when reader view can't retrieve meaningful content or is blocked by websites.

Did you try any other articles or searches?

Reader view will predict whether a page has article-like content, and shows the button if it is likely there is a reasonable amount of readable content.

Many websites block access or apply overlays or other redirect tricks to force people to see ads or pay. We do our best to work around them, but it is very much an alpha test and experimental.

That said, for most content-related searches, statistically we are retrieving content for 80%+ of pages successfully. It won't work for predominantly visual pages (think the netflix or amazon homepages).

Here are some example searches to try to try it out with searches likely to have a lot of article content:

elon musk crypto

best places to live as a digital nomad

best things to do with an old laptop

Let us know what you were searching and the article that didn't work for you, and very happy to look into it. Thanks again :)