PriEco
PriEco Search Engine

Building truly fair web search engine. With us you search privately, ecologically, openly (AGPLv3).

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2026-06-15 16:39:40 GMT

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A familly member of mine is Australian and worries a lot
Obscura must be doing a ton of helping toghether with other VPN companies. Especially if they support DPI resistance
PriEco is also moving towards decentralization and as I store at least text and links of html pages (+ metadata) in the worst case, this could be a source of information from censored websites too

2026-06-05 17:00:09 GMT

I've hugely messed up
PriEco needs fixing, BUT! after, it, it should become just so incredibly good

2026-05-20 22:00:11 GMT

I tried something but forgot to add to PriEco important code. The result is that now PriEco is unnecessarily slower. It will be automatically fixed pretty soon

2026-05-14 16:00:08 GMT

Added https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist to PriEco #crawler
PriEco will no longer create results out of clearly #AI slop #websites
Our fight against AI #slop doesn't end here, and we are figuring out better ways to handle them
#crawler #AI #websites #slop

2026-05-06 04:00:08 GMT

I want to improve your PriEco experience as much as possible

2026-04-26 19:00:09 GMT

What would make PriEco a better fit for you? #search #eco
#open #search #eco

2026-04-06 20:00:15 GMT

I mean PriEco quality is still in its early stage, but I find myself just using it. And at least for my use case most of the time it's good enough

2026-03-31 22:00:12 GMT

1 day feels for me like a week
Things that happened 2 weeks ago feel MONTHs ago

2026-03-31 21:00:09 GMT

Uhm, there were better times already. Gained and lost a lot of friends along the way with PriEco.
Now PriEco is solid but I'm alone here trying to figure things out

2026-03-28 13:00:13 GMT

Just found in my laptop 100GB of ZIPPED result files waiting to be imported to the index.
So index size is like a lot higher than I thought. Just need to import them. No promises but that could be another 100M

2026-03-23 23:00:19 GMT

Good world coverage

2026-03-23 22:25:27 GMT

EU is looking for its web search engine
I exist, they know about this account. Please share some positive words to make their mind

2026-03-23 10:00:14 GMT

I'm abusing my disk. This is just today. What's lifespan of NvMES?

2026-03-23 02:00:08 GMT

I promise I'm gonna be the search engine EU is looking for

2026-03-22 21:00:09 GMT

Gosh, I have to update privacy policy
PriEco changed so much since the last update. But don't worry, it's even more private now

2026-03-22 19:00:54 GMT

I wish, I would have so many P* index results on it

2026-03-22 17:06:30 GMT

The code for PriEco index is now done. I only need to keep on growing and improving ranking
Give it a try at https://prieco.net
Would 💚 to hear your feedback

2026-03-22 17:00:12 GMT

That's current PriEco
The Golden Days: a google ad from 1999 promising no ads in search

2026-03-22 16:00:14 GMT

I've left the internet for 2 years. Closed in my cave and worked tirelessly on PriEco index

2026-03-21 03:00:11 GMT

Which web search engine do you use and what do you like about it?

2026-03-20 22:00:13 GMT

I'm on 🦖 https://projectbluefin.io/
Very satisfied
I'm now looking at https://secureblue.dev/ it seems similar but with security improvements

2026-03-20 21:00:14 GMT

Tried Google Stitch, I'm not impressed
(Disclaimer: Text is made up)

2026-03-20 20:00:11 GMT

What would it take for you to join PriEco Chat community?
You can join at Signal, Matrix, Telegram, and Discord. Would you need some other platform?
I have a bot that syncs the chats so that you can chat with anyone across platforms

2026-03-20 19:00:12 GMT

Finally, PageRank calculation code is ready
It will further improve ranking and I can finally reclaim space occupied by all of the archived connections

2026-03-16 19:56:53 GMT

WTF you mean my extension is being installed on ChromeOS?

2026-03-16 16:51:43 GMT

I did crazy work on PriEco over the time. I hope from now on I can show it all to you and together improve it even more

2026-01-16 16:57:36 GMT

Big apologies that it takes me so long. What I am stuck on is I am looking for a good vector database. I've tried already so many and each "try" takes even days.
I believe I'm getting close but I still haven't found "database" I'm looking for

2026-01-10 23:05:58 GMT

Can't believe how long PriEco dev takes. I knew creating a web search engine is hard... It's not hard, I had to grow up to be able to do it
For such projects it's not just if you can code in your prefered language, but a way of thinking too

2026-01-10 23:02:32 GMT

Which #privacy tools are you proudly using?

2026-01-10 22:59:23 GMT

Is here someone who recently started using PriEco and we haven't interacted?

2026-01-10 22:58:19 GMT

I promise that in a no time you will see changes in PriEco and me here all of the time yapping with you

2026-01-10 22:56:31 GMT

I'm sorry I am on and off on socials. I'm on when I don't have much development work or I am exited for the future.
Now am excited :)

2026-01-10 22:43:25 GMT

I just had a great idea for the future of PriEco based on my real pain point in how current search is made
+ I am starting to get momentul in PriEco dev again
the future is starting to look BRIGHT

2025-12-31 12:04:54 GMT

I've been working on PriEco for so long. Idk, I'm in doubts if it's still useful and if I can actually pull up a proper index

2025-11-11 23:41:30 GMT

Would you ever want AI in PriEco?

2025-11-11 23:09:31 GMT

I have a new Crawler! Now we are making 23M results a day. Just 2 days ago it was just 3-4M
Gonna step up the game and then upgrade again

2025-11-11 22:37:30 GMT

What are some of the best and worst results you got in PriEco?

2025-11-11 22:34:08 GMT

I'm PriEco. PriEco Search Engine to say

2025-11-11 15:08:12 GMT

Just give me like a week
PriEco is gathering new results quickly for its index
And I am thinking how to continue

2025-11-11 14:15:28 GMT

Well, initial PriEco seems done
Now I just need to figure out how to get famous on the Internet

2025-11-09 21:51:05 GMT

I'm so so sorry about the downtime. From now on it should be FINE

2025-11-09 20:35:51 GMT

Truly apologies for the downtime. I still need a bit of time

2025-11-09 14:13:03 GMT

Oh it wasn't enough to stop them!

2025-11-09 13:05:05 GMT

I managed to make Cloudflare to fully block it. But it was a simple solution and maybe whoever was abusing my results may find workaround. I know how to improve it much more tho

2025-11-09 13:01:50 GMT

I did something for the bot protection. It should be good enough for now, but the todays downtime will be regardless

2025-11-09 12:41:13 GMT

Apologies, already PriEco is down. We are getting larger bot traffic. PriEco could handle it but I decided to turn it off, increase bot protection and bring it back up so that we don't waste API calls

2025-11-09 11:43:23 GMT

Today we will have a PriEco downtime for a few hours

2025-11-01 16:58:45 GMT

I hope PriEco brings you value. Even when the index size isn't large yet, it will only get better
A crazy amount of work went into the whole PriEco

2025-11-01 16:26:56 GMT

The good news is that now PriEco's infrastructure is very close to being done and then just wait for CRAWLER to fill us with results

2025-11-01 16:23:54 GMT

I've completely not realized disk has inode limit. I have hit Linux's 60 something M limit and lost like 3M htmls

2025-11-01 16:19:37 GMT

I feel kinda lonely, so let me yap here

2025-10-30 19:36:41 GMT

Apologies, I had a PriEco index outage

2025-10-23 17:49:22 GMT

My wish is that PriEco finally had a ton of results in its index, and we could live happy ever after

2025-10-23 17:34:37 GMT

I'm trying to implement Bloom Filter to my web crawler for 2 days now. It could eliminate around 50% of the disk reads my crawler does. AND this is a bottleneck. I just get false negatives all the time. How is this possible!?

2025-10-21 08:03:13 GMT

What would you say is the minimum number of results web search engine must have to be considered good? (at least in terms of index size)

2025-10-20 15:27:02 GMT

I would say PriEco results aren't bad, I just need much more of them

2025-10-20 09:35:59 GMT

I am thinking about doing 2 hopefully simple feature switches and PriEco could be Rust in and out from database up to frontend (Except for Cloudflare)
Database, Crawler, Frontend and Analytics all in Rust

2025-10-17 21:13:26 GMT

Would it be OK if PriEco used self-hosted https://umami.is/

2025-10-13 15:19:31 GMT

Thank you @npub1l77…swft for 1000 sats donation!

2025-10-13 14:50:14 GMT

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I should have it in my profile now

2025-10-13 14:19:46 GMT

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Thx, will do that!
I've checked your website. We have Signal https://jojoyou.org/signal and Matrix https://matrix.to/#/!VlgSdgvPhFaiGNAKXe:matrix.org groups if you would like to join too

2025-10-13 13:52:18 GMT

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Trying to improve it 🫡

2025-10-13 13:47:31 GMT

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Hiii! I didn't know about @il_lost_ .
Thank you! Current priority is the index but I will keep knowledge graphs in mind and add them

2025-10-10 17:19:16 GMT

What's your experience with PriEco's own index? Is it any good?

2025-10-07 10:48:04 GMT

We have a new Matrix community
Give us a visit https://matrix.to/#/!VlgSdgvPhFaiGNAKXe:matrix.org

2025-10-07 10:45:32 GMT

I don't have much to work on for PriEco right now. Is there something that you would like me to improve
or
should I again focus on index quality?

2025-10-06 13:47:59 GMT

PriEco Onion domain now points to the NEW PriEco: http://priecovk7jsuh3tvkh62c6j4oep3l5bldigpzmay26rdpqz357t5dmad.onion/
Give it a try and search even more private

2025-10-05 18:18:11 GMT

The old version of PriEco was badly written in PHP, had a massive, clustered codebase. I didn't want to touch it anymore. So, I decided to rewrite it in Rust

2025-10-04 20:20:30 GMT

New footer social media links! For all: #signal #telegram #discord #x #mastodon #bluesky #nostr and #threads https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/5acea5976088376627872a4d21b15b4c9ebf993e065d11d56f630ab00174f9b1/33989e9fff75245c5edcb128aa79f6cedad0ac1879f1649ede2c18cf8bd2d522.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/5acea5976088376627872a4d21b15b4c9ebf993e065d11d56f630ab00174f9b1/ec5f327e71ac30df0a61a87f5c45da468dfe1e829a9663f2af1e760bc60c08d9.webp

2025-10-04 11:38:30 GMT

The crawler is now so fast that it fully filled my server disk overnight 😅

2025-10-03 19:32:32 GMT

I've tried adding https://plausible.io/ to PriEco. Wasn't able to 😵. Will try tomorrow
It would be very nice to know at least something. Like user count as I am totally blind right now

2025-10-03 16:02:02 GMT

What if PriEco used self-hosted https://plausible.io/ ?

2025-10-03 15:26:42 GMT

I'm thinking that I should have some way of knowing how many users use PriEco and maybe even from which countries and which languages. So, I can focus on improving the experience for them
Don't be totally blind like I am right now
Do you know any privacy respecting ways to do it?

2025-10-02 20:19:10 GMT

To give PriEco Signal group credit, we are matching or outdoing the another Signal group I am in which has 351 members. In terms of activity 💚

2025-10-02 20:12:53 GMT

Yey! I found another performance bottleneck in the crawler. Can make it faster!

2025-10-01 18:15:55 GMT

Is PriEco good enough that you would suggest it to your family and friends, or are we missing something?

2025-10-01 17:53:26 GMT

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I'm a private and open source web search engine https://prieco.net https://media2.giphy.com/media/Nv7mpWpS9kKo8/200.gif

2025-10-01 17:39:21 GMT

We already have PriEco: Signal, Telegram and Discord groups, would you join us if I added another platform?

2025-10-01 17:33:28 GMT

Which web #searchengine do you use and why? I wonder what are your favorite features and ways to surf the #web

2025-10-01 17:24:18 GMT

A week ago I found a big in consequences but small in code mistake in my web crawler
I had there == and it was supposed to be !=
I've finally fixed it, took just 4 days as I had to recreate crawler's database 😭

2025-10-01 17:17:54 GMT

My next goal is to dramatically increase index size ⛏️

2025-09-30 21:45:06 GMT

We have a privacy policy page https://prieco.net/privacy
Could you tell me if there is something you disagree with?

2025-09-30 11:31:29 GMT

I'm sorry about the outage, have pushed a fixed that makes PriEco crash very unlikely going forward

2025-09-30 07:48:58 GMT

PriEco has experienced extended downtime. I apologize for inconveniences

2025-09-29 20:44:06 GMT

I've got multiple requests about missing Privacy Policy page, thanks to all of you
I am adding it
Tbh: I hate the process of creating it. This also means it shouldn't end up long
I'm using the old PriEco's Privacy Policy as a based and updating it a bit

2025-09-29 08:29:42 GMT

Is there something you would like me to add or change in PriEco?

2025-09-28 20:18:28 GMT

Have you already tried the new PriEco? https://prieco.net

2025-09-28 11:16:32 GMT

Does anyone know a good way I could protect my @npub1n03…h0ky group against bots?

2025-09-28 11:07:53 GMT

Does anyone want to keep up with PriEco updates? I'm asking if you would like me to explain everything I've been working on for the last year

2025-09-28 11:06:31 GMT

I've had a lot of resistance against posting here
⬇️
I've decided to just post whatever comes to my mind
So, hopefully this time I'll be able to keep on posting 😊

2025-09-27 17:57:25 GMT

If you would like to join we have a Signal group https://jojoyou.org/signal

2025-09-27 16:32:33 GMT

Heyo!