I built a 2B-page search engine, independent of Google/Bing

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I built a 2B-page search engine, independent of Google/Bing is active in the show hn launch space.

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Hi HN, For the last 18 months, I've been working solo on building a completely independent search engine from scratch. Today, I'm opening it up for beta testing and would love to get your feedback. The project powers two public sites from the same 2-billion-page index: Searcha.Page: A session-aware search engine that uses a persistent browser key (not a cookie) for better context. Seek.Ninja: A 100% stateless, privacy-first version with no identifiers at all. The entire stack is self-hosted on a single ~$4k bare-metal EPYC server in my laundry room (no cloud, no VC funding). The search pipeline is a hybrid model, using a traditional lexical index for the heavy lifting and lightweight LLMs fo

I built a 2B-page search engine, independent of Google/Bing is positioned in show hn launch, a segment that rewards a clear, focused offering.

The company is listed at the Show HN launch stage of development.

Website: searcha.page