Replace Google with an "Indie Web Search Engine"

• Tired of Google Ads?
• Love a 2000s aesthetic?
• Know how to run an html file on localhost?
• Capable of signing up for an API key?

Yes! Great, I made: Indie Search

https://github.com/seven20solutions/indiesearch

What's great about it?

• It's made to become your "default" search tool (seriously)
• Supports VIM key bindings
• Light, Dark and System mode
• Search results for YOUR country (maybe, tell me if your country isn't there... I've missed some, well, most)
• Search results are on-par with Google's (IMO. I could be biased.)
• Fast and ad-free
• Open Source and GPL
• A single html file
• Looks amazing!! (but you can easily recode it)

What's bad

• I has to run locally (maybe this is a feature...? Probably not.)
• Limited to 10 search results (who needs page 2)
• Requires an API key for Exa

Contributions

We live in a time where we can build a lot of the tools we need and become "less" dependent on large tech companies. With help of tools like OpenCode (used on this project), we can iterate quickly and share more of our work (OpenCode's work..?) with each other.

So, if you try Indie Search, or have even just read this far and are thinking about trying it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.