I'm proud to announce the launch of the public beta for Clew, my independent web search engine! 🎉🎉🎉

Try Clew: https://clew.se
Add to your browser: https://clew.se/add/

Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.

Many features are yet to come. If you'd like to support Clew's development and server costs, you can donate to its Liberapay team: https://liberapay.com/Clew/

Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!

@joacim @selea

Since I’ve only just gone public, currently the process is “send me a link”. ;)

For best results the site should have a RSS/Atom/JSON feed since that’s how new posts/pages are primarily discovered.

In my plans for this Beta phase is to develop a better site submission process.

@amin

Here my blog (mostly political and tech stuffs) encrypted.tesio.it/atom.xml

Here the blog of an Italian organization that fought in Italy with a certain success before the new fake was adopted: monitora-pa.it/atom.xml

Both are manually crafted indipendent website (including the feeds), with no tracking or ads.

@joacim @selea

@Shamar @joacim @selea

Perfect, I've added both feeds! Since I'm currently running the crawler locally for easier development, it'll start showing up in results when I next upload an update to the index.

@Shamar @joacim @selea

Since so many people have sent me links to their sites or sites they're interested in I'll probably be doing that later "today". (It's 5am here and I still haven't been able to fall asleep after repeated tries. Guess I should give it one more go.)

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