About Szymdows Search

An independent search engine built for the open web.

Szymdows Search is an independent search engine focused on transparency, simplicity, respectful crawling, and clean search results without ads, tracking, or sponsored ranking manipulation.

No ads No tracking Independent index Custom crawler Manual review

Overview

What is Szymdows Search?

An independent search engine built and maintained with a focus on transparency, simplicity, and respect for website owners.

Search Engine

Independent Search

Szymdows Search crawls and indexes websites across the open web without relying on third-party search APIs.

No ads No sponsored results Independent index

Search results are served entirely from a curated index. What you see is what the crawler found.

Crawler

SzymdowsBot

Websites are discovered and indexed by SzymdowsBot, a custom crawler designed to explore the open web carefully and respectfully.

Custom crawler Polite crawling Index refreshes

The crawler stores page titles, descriptions, and URLs into the search index while refreshing results periodically to keep content updated.

Quality Control

Manual Review

Every website submitted through the submission form is reviewed manually before inclusion in the index.

Spam filtering Manual checks User reports

Spammy, deceptive, malicious, or low-quality websites are rejected to help maintain a cleaner and more trustworthy search experience.

Standards

Respecting robots.txt

SzymdowsBot respects the robots.txt standard and follows crawler instructions provided by website owners.

robots.txt Website owner control Removal requests

If a website blocks SzymdowsBot from indexing, those pages will not appear in search results, even if they were submitted manually.

Technology

Built for speed & simplicity

The search backend runs using lightweight edge infrastructure with a focus on performance and maintainability.

Workers KV HTML CSS JavaScript

Szymdows Search avoids unnecessary complexity while remaining lightweight, responsive, and scalable.

Mission

Simple & transparent search

The goal of Szymdows Search is to provide a small, honest, and transparent search experience.

No tracking No data selling Transparent search

Search should remain simple: type something, get relevant results. No manipulation, no clutter, no hidden priorities.

Explore Szymdows Search

Search the web, submit websites for indexing, or provide feedback to help improve the project.

Search Start searching the web Submit Suggest a website for indexing Feedback Report issues or send suggestions

Contact

Get in Touch

If you want to reach me, explore my work, or connect about software, you can contact me here.

Let’s Connect

I’m always interested in programming, systems, web technology, low-level software, AI, and building interesting projects.

Email szymdows-programming@outlook.com GitHub github.com/Szymdows