Date Posted: August 2024

For the last few months, I've been working on Fynd, a search engine that is solving the issue of bias and algorithmic bubbles found in current mainstream search engines.

It's been amazing how everything has just fallen together and doesn't feel forced. I've found that Fynd does not need hundreds or thousands of ranking factors. In fact, Fynd does not use ranking factors at all in its code.

Fynd has 9 million pages currently indexed, and the results are outstanding. It provides a broad view of the internet instead of a small subset.

Site owners should like Fynd because it does not try to be an answer engine and steal their content and traffic; it just returns results based on the closest matching web page, more like a classic search engine.

I plan to make fynd available to the public in an experimental state when it reaches 15-20 million pages indexed. It currently indexes about 140,000 pages a day.

Date Posted: August 2024

Hey, I'm Brian Bennett, lead developer of Fynd.

Before starting work on the search engine, I wanted to make a clean and simple blog where I could write about the process. So I made this blog using PHP and MariaDB. It is fast, easy to use, and does exactly what I need.

This is the first of many posts. I will share updates on how Fynd works behind the scenes. I will talk about how our bots crawl the web and much more. There is still a lot to build, but this is a great start. I am excited to share the journey with you.

Welcome to the Fynd Dev Blog!