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Life & fun · May 27, 2022

I'm building a personal web search engine

A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more! - spyglass-search/spyglass

I'm building a personal web search engine launched on May 27, 2022 with 8 votes, #1,013 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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