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!

@amin

How can we add sites to Clew to index?

@selea @amin +1

@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) https://encrypted.tesio.it/atom.xml

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

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

@joacim @selea