hey wasteof I’ve been making something I’m quite proud of, a completely independent search engine.
it’s definitely not the best, having only just under 6,000 web pages indexed, but it doesn’t take any data from third parties such as Bing or Google, which most other “search engines” (like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yahoo etc) do
you can try it out at https://novasearch.xyz, it’s still very work in progress, please do feel free to contribute on github, whether by reporting a bug you find or creating a pull request https://github.com/Nova-Search
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looks cool! btw - instead of saving icons, you can use duckduckgo's icon server. I forgot exactly how to use it but you can figure it out by searching something and then copying the favicon urls.
That would be the easy way to do things but I plan on keeping Nova completely independent for the time being - no third parties