OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds
Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?) Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of thing, but RSS readers aren’t meant to be shared, so you can think of the search engine as a 'curated feed list as a public service'. I wrote a longer blog post about OpenOrb here:…
In plain words
OpenOrb is a self-hosted search engine for Atom and RSS feeds that lets site owners create a searchable index of their favorite blogs. Visitors can search across a curated list of feeds without encountering sponsored content or machine-generated material. Unlike personal RSS readers, OpenOrb is designed to be shared publicly, functioning as a community-curated feed directory. It's built for anyone wanting to offer a filtered, human-selected alternative to mainstream search engines.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
In the maker’s words, at launch
Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?) Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of thing, but RSS readers aren’t meant to be shared, so you can think of the search engine as a 'curated feed list as a public service'. I wrote a longer blog post about OpenOrb here: https://raphael.computer/blog/openorb-curated-search-engine/
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