𝗜 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗔 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲

𝗜 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗔 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲

I built a search engine. FrogFind inspired me.

I started with the crawler:

• Python requests
• SQLite3
• robots.txt compliance

I had no experience in this field.

I built the web app:

• Flask
• Redis for rate limits
• Custom search algorithms

I put the project in a pip package. It is called quokko. It has a CLI. You use it to make your own search engine.

The engine has 13 million entries. It finds niche parts of the web. It ignores Big Tech companies.

This is a hobby project. It is not a competitor to big companies. It is a tool for other small search engines.

Site: quokko.splot.dev Code: https://codeberg.org/splot-dev/quokko Source: https://dev.to/splotdev/i-built-an-independent-search-engine-and-the-results-were-interesting-1a9g