Date Posted: July 2025

Most search engines use something called backlinks to help decide which pages show up first. A backlink is when one website links to another. In theory, more links should mean the page is important.

But here is the problem: big companies with lots of money can get tons of backlinks. Sometimes they pay people to link to them. Other times, they have huge networks of sites that all link to each other. This gives them an unfair advantage.

We want everyone to have a fair chance, not just the biggest or richest websites. That is why we do not use backlinks as a ranking signal. Instead, we look at what is actually on the page and how well it matches what you are looking for. This gives everyone an even playing field.

We believe good content should speak for itself. It should not need tricks or money to rise to the top. Fynd is about fairness, clarity, and showing real results, not just a small bubble of sites who have the biggest wallet.

Date Posted: July 2025

Some websites ask you to pay or sign in before you can read the page. This is called a subscription page.

We fully support the right of websites to charge for their content. Writers, creators, and news sites work hard, and it is fair for them to earn money from what they make.

But if a page is not really open to the public, it should not show up in public search results. Some sites try to get better rankings by showing one thing to search engines and something else to visitors. We do not think that is fair.

At Fynd, we want search results to be clear and honest. So if pages are locked behind a paywall or login, we will skip that site. That way, when you click a result, you get what you expect.

Date Posted: July 2025

When you search for something on Fynd, we try to show you the most helpful and clear result possible. To do that, our crawler looks at a few different parts of each web page.

First, we look at the title tag and the meta description. These are special tags in a web page that tell search engines what the page is about. Most websites use them to give a short and clear summary, and we prefer using these in search results when they are written well.

But sometimes, the title or meta tags are missing, empty, or not very helpful. If that happens, we take a look at the page itself, the body content, and try to find something better. This helps us show results that make more sense, even when a website is not using those tags correctly.

Our goal is to make Fynd results clean, clear, and useful. We will keep improving how we choose what to show, so you get the best result every time you search.

Date Posted: July 2025

One of the first things we worked on at Fynd was making sure our bots are polite.

Some search engines send lots of requests to a website all at once. This can slow the site down or even make it crash. That is not very nice.

At Fynd, we want to be good internet neighbors. So we made our crawler careful. It only makes one or two requests to a website every few minutes. This gives the site time to breathe and stay happy.

We are proud of this and will keep making sure Fynd is respectful to others online. Being a good net citizen matters.

Date Posted: April 2025

Fynd turns 1 year old tomorrow! It has been a fun and rewarding experience developing the code and watching the search engine come to life. I think it is pretty cool that it has become a sort of living, growing entity that does not require constant human input to keep running.

The core code is now complete, so over the last few months, and moving forward, development has shifted more toward improving the user interface, along with occasional tweaks to the crawlers and other backend components as needed.

Eventually, I would like to add image and news search features, which honestly seem pretty straightforward at this point. But before that, I will be focusing more on refining the Fynd UI.

Fynd has about 65 million pages indexed, and it continues to grow every second. I am very happy with the search results for most queries. While the index sounds large, it is still relatively small, and as it grows, the quality of the results keeps improving.

Looking ahead, my hope is that others will find Fynd as useful as I do for general internet searching and research, and appreciate having an alternative to mainstream search engines.