Making a Metasearch Engine (2024) (opens in new tab)

In 2020, tired of every search engine seemingly having suboptimal results and missing the instant answers I wanted, I decided to make a search engine for myself. I knew making a general-purpose web search engine from scratch by myself was infeasible, so instead I opted to make a meta-search engine, which aggregates results from other web search engines. First I tried forking Searx, but it was slow and the old Python codebase was annoying to work with. So instead of forking an existing project...