Date Posted: March 2025

Fynd has hit 50 million pages indexed, and the results are really shaping up nicely. The more pages indexed, the better the matches get. I foresee the sweet spot being around 200-250 million pages for optimal search quality.

Beyond that, I’m continuing to refine the UI, fine-tune the crawlers, and tackle spam pages to keep everything clean and relevant. Progress is steady, and things are going nicely.

Give it a try - Fynd

Date Posted: November 2024

Fynd has surpassed 20 million pages indexed, a milestone I set when starting the project in April 2024. The search engine continues to impress me with its results, and I make improvements as I see a need for them.

Date Posted: August 2024

Fynd has reached its first short-term milestone of 10 million pages indexed—a great accomplishment since starting the project several months ago.

Yesterday, I also overcame a major hurdle in performance scaling. The most glaring problem search engines face is scale, being able to index hundreds of millions of web pages or more to a database while maintaining speed. I am now confident that Fynd can scale to meet performance needs.

Going forward, I foresee handling spam sites as the most glaring issue. I cannot stress how easy it is to spot web pages, sites, and link farms built to try and game the system from a search engine perspective. I don’t know why people waste their time and money; it’s futile.

The next milestone is 20 million pages, where we hope to release a public beta so people can get accustomed to Fynd.

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!