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.

Date Posted: April 2026

We’ve had a few people ask if Fynd can add AI summaries that take search results and turn them into quick answers.

It’s a fair question. AI summaries can be helpful and fast. But we’ve made a decision not to go that route, and we want to explain why.

Fynd is built to be a search engine that indexes the open web. Our goal is to help you find the right websites, not replace them.

Most AI summary features work by taking content from multiple websites and combining it into one answer. Even when they include citations, the user often gets what they need without ever visiting those sites.

That creates a problem.

The websites that created the content lose traffic, even though they did the work. Over time, that can hurt the open web, because fewer people are rewarded for creating useful content.

We don’t think that’s the right direction.

Instead, we want traffic to go to the sites that match your search. If a page has the answer, we want you to visit it, read it, and support the people behind it.

That’s the foundation of Fynd.

We also don’t see Fynd as an “answer engine.” Our mission is to build a searchable index of the web. Good answers can still come from good search results, but they should come from the source.

That said, we do recognize that AI has its place. If something like summaries were ever built using its own knowledge, without pulling from indexed website content, that would be a different conversation.

But taking content from sites and repackaging it into answers is not something we plan to do.

We believe the web works best when creators are rewarded with visitors, not replaced.

And we’re building Fynd with that in mind.

Date Posted: April 2026

Fynd crawlers now support IPv6, along with IPv4.

The Fynd website has supported IPv6 for a while, and now the crawlers are set up the same way. This means we run in a dual stack setup and can connect to sites using either type of address.

If you’re not familiar, IP addresses are how computers find websites. IPv4 is the older format most people know, while IPv6 is the newer one that allows for many more addresses. As the internet grows, more sites are starting to use IPv6.

With this update, our crawlers can reach sites over IPv6 just like they already do with IPv4. This helps make sure we don’t miss parts of the open web.

There’s nothing site owners need to change. Everything continues to work the same.

Date Posted: April 2026

When people build a website, they usually want some pages to show up in search engines and some pages to stay private. That’s where something called a robots.txt file comes in. It’s a simple file that lives on a website and tells crawlers what they are allowed to look at and what they should avoid.

If you want to allow or block Fynd specifically, you can do that by using the user agent name “fyndbot” in your robots.txt file. Here is a simple example:

User-agent: fyndbot
Disallow: /private/

This tells Fynd not to crawl anything inside the /private/ folder.

If you want to block Fynd completely, you can use:

User-agent: fyndbot
Disallow: /

And if you want to allow everything:

User-agent: fyndbot
Allow: /

Fynd also follows the general rules used by other search engines. If there is no robots.txt file, it assumes everything is allowed. If the file cannot be reached, it will avoid crawling until it can safely determine what to do.

If you run a site and want to manage how Fynd interacts with it, adding a robots.txt file with the fyndbot user agent is the best place to start.