Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

As I&#x27;ve used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiby.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiby.org&#x2F;</a> is distinct from the older version, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiby.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiby.me&#x2F;</a>, which only indexes few sites.

Wiby.org is my homepage. I occasionally click &quot;surprise me...&quot; to view 90s style websites. I find them more interesting than scrolling though modern stuff.

Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.me&#x2F;</a>

I really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was &quot;corporate&quot;.

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like &quot;wp whatever&quot; would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.<p>It was popular among dwm&#x2F;i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(<p>I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.

OMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.

Tested my app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;videohubapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;videohubapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>Searched for &quot;Video Hub App&quot; and it didn&#x27;t find my website :(

wow, I really like this! I&#x27;m really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w&#x2F;o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!

I&#x27;m impressed with the quality of the results.

I get 502 bad gateway.

Is it powered by Bing?

I got a chuckle of the &#x27;wibyplex&#x27; photo in the about page.

Seems like there is an increasing need for alternative search engines