Date Posted: October 2026

When you start building a search engine, you expect to spend your time working on crawlers, indexing, and search results.

You don’t expect to become a DNS resolver expert.

But working on Fynd has taught us that DNS becomes a serious part of the infrastructure when you’re crawling the web at scale. Before a crawler can download a page, it needs to find the server hosting it. Multiply that across millions of pages, and DNS has a substantial workload of its own.

Caching helps tremendously, but a search engine constantly encounters new hostnames, expired records, and nameservers that are slow or simply don’t answer.

Keeping Fynd moving means dedicated resolver infrastructure, careful tuning, monitoring, and redundancy. Something that usually works quietly in the background becomes an everyday engineering project.

We started out expecting to build a search index. Apparently, that also meant learning far more about DNS than we ever planned to.

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.