Date Posted: August 2026

If you see the Fynd search engine bot visiting your website, and you want to make sure the request is really coming from Fynd. Here are a few ways you can check.

Our crawler uses the following user-agent: fyndbot

Keep in mind that a user-agent can be copied. Someone could make another bot claim to be fyndbot even when it is not. Because of this, the best way to verify our crawler is to check both the user-agent and the IP address making the request.

Fynd currently uses IP addresses from the following IPv4 and IPv6 ranges:

13.216.0.0/13
3.64.0.0/12
13.214.0.0/15
169.197.183.0/24
64.176.0.0/19
2600:1f18::/35
2001:19f0:c800::/38
2a05:d014:1c00::/38
2406:da18:800::/38
2605:9f80:8000::/35

If the visitor uses the fyndbot user-agent and its IP address is within one of these ranges, the request is coming from network space currently used by the Fynd crawler.

Please keep in mind that our crawler IP addresses may change over time. We will update this page when our crawler network ranges change.

Date Posted: July 2026

We're excited to share that Fynd reached another milestone in July 2026, processing more than 8.2 million search queries.

Just a couple of months ago, we celebrated processing 5.1 million queries in May. Reaching 8.2 million in July shows that more people are discovering and using Fynd every day. It is encouraging to see this steady growth as we continue improving the search experience.

Every search helps us make Fynd better. We remain focused on providing useful search results, respecting user privacy, and building an independent search engine that people can trust.

Thank you to everyone who uses Fynd, shares it with others, and supports the project. Your support makes continued growth possible, and we're excited to keep building and improving Fynd in the months ahead.

Date Posted: June 2026

We're happy to share that May 2026 was our strongest month yet, with more than 5.1 million search queries processed by Fynd.

While there is still plenty of work ahead, it's encouraging to see steady growth month after month. Every search helps us learn, improve, and continue building a better experience.

Our goal remains the same, provide useful search results while respecting user privacy and staying independent.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the project so far. We are excited to keep improving Fynd and look forward to what the future brings.

Date Posted: June 2026

We have been asked when Fynd will release a mobile app for Android or iPhone. At this time, we are electing not to participate in those closed mobile ecosystems.

Instead, we recommend simply bookmarking Fynd in your mobile browser and adding it to your home screen. Modern mobile browsers already provide a fast and clean experience without requiring users to install another app, create accounts, or hand over unnecessary permissions.

The larger reason is philosophical.

Closed mobile platforms operate under rules controlled entirely by a few corporations. Those companies decide what apps are allowed, what content is acceptable, what business models survive, and in some cases even what ideas are permitted to exist on their platforms. We do not believe the open web should depend on gatekeepers.

Fynd was built around openness, neutrality, and direct access to information. Participating in ecosystems where applications can be restricted, removed, censored, or forced to comply with constantly changing platform rules goes against the direction we believe the internet should move toward.

Until there are truly open third-party app stores and more freedom for developers and users alike, we will continue focusing our efforts on the web itself, the only major platform accessible to everyone.

Date Posted: May 2026

Privacy online is getting harder and harder to find. Most search engines keep track of what people search for, what they click on, where they go, and what they are interested in. That information is often used to build profiles about people for advertising.

Fynd was built differently.

The whole point of Fynd is to help people search the web and discover websites, not collect information about people. Searches are not shared with third parties. Fynd does not believe your searches should be turned into a product.

A lot of search engines today want to keep users inside their own systems instead of sending people to websites. Fynd believes websites, blogs, forums, businesses, and creators deserve visitors and traffic.

Like every website and online service, Fynd servers do keep Linux system logs for security and server operation reasons. Those logs rotate normally as part of the operating system and are not part of some giant long-term tracking system.

In the future, Fynd may show limited ads based only on the search being made at that moment. For example, if someone searches for basketball shoes, they may see an ad for basketball shoes. That is very different from following people around the internet and building profiles on them over time.

Truly independent search engines like Fynd are already rare. Privacy-focused independent search engines are even more rare.

That is why Fynd is likely one of the most privacy-respecting search engines that exists today.

Eventually there will be sections on the site that go deeper into topics like this. Right now Fynd is still in the early stages, but we wanted people to know where we stand from the beginning.

Search engines should help people discover the web, not help companies discover everything about people.