Give Google the boot by building your own search engine
Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about
If you're fed up with search results drowning out the bits of the web you actually care about, you could always build your own search index, as one developer did.
Nottingham, UK-based software dev Alex Morley-Finch built the open-source project dubbed Marlin for himself, cataloging around 560,000 homepages for roughly $10 in rented cloud GPU time and using less than a gigabyte of disk storage.
Morley-Finch said in a writeup of the project that he wanted a search engine of things he cared about, like “portfolios, zines, weird little art projects, one-person software,” and other cases of just “people doing stuff” that they share on the internet.
Something simple, with “a crawler that only ever looks at homepages, a small local language model that reads each...
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