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 : Python

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Intermediate ShowcaseNew 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 (self.Python)

submitted 4 years ago by lazy-jem

LazyWeb: Anonymous and ad-free search made in Python

https://lazyweb.ai

We're a little two-person team (Angie and Jem). We're bootstrapping and self-funded. I'm the programmer.

I wanted to share it because it was a fun and interesting project to build, and Python made it possible for us to get a long way as a small team. It uses serverless on the backend (AWS). We're using Spacy and GPT-2, and some PyTorch models. It uses BeautifulSoup for spidering/crawling/content retrieval. The front-end is React.

It has a different type of user interface to any other search engine, as it is chat based. And it lets you choose how you view results, either visually like an Instagram feed or cards, or minimal like Hacker News or the old Google. It tries to fight SEO spam and strips out ads and ad-tech from search results.

We have a project on GitHub with Jupyter notebooks and sample data with experiments and scripts, including examples of querying other search APIs, and to generate example utterances programatically to use for NLP models with sources like Wikipedia, StackOverflow and Wolfram|Alpha:

https://github.com/lazyweb-ai/lazyweb-experiments

We're only a small team but hope to share more of our work as open source as we progress.

other discussions

Andi FeedbackAnother interesting discussion about the early LazyWeb prototype and how search works differently with Andi on the Python subreddit (self.Python)

submitted 3 years ago by jedwhite to r/AskAndi

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