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.
Independent Search
Szymdows Search crawls and indexes websites across the open web without relying on third-party search APIs. Search results are served entirely from a curated index. What you see is what the crawler found.
SzymdowsBot
Websites are discovered and indexed by SzymdowsBot, a custom crawler designed to explore the open web carefully and respectfully. The crawler stores page titles, descriptions, and URLs into the search index while refreshing results periodically to keep content updated.
Manual Review
Every website submitted through the submission form is reviewed manually before inclusion in the index. Spammy, deceptive, malicious, or low-quality websites are rejected to help maintain a cleaner and more trustworthy search experience.
Respecting robots.txt
SzymdowsBot respects the robots.txt standard and follows crawler
instructions provided by website owners. If a website blocks SzymdowsBot from indexing,
those pages will not appear in search results, even if they were submitted manually.
Built for speed & simplicity
The search backend runs using lightweight edge infrastructure (Workers and KV) with a frontend in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, focused on performance and maintainability. Szymdows Search avoids unnecessary complexity while remaining lightweight, responsive, and scalable.
Simple & transparent search
The goal of Szymdows Search is to provide a small, honest, and transparent search experience. 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.