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Highlights: We now have 105 million pages in our index We’re crawling around a million pages a day Around 60 people are helping to crawl the web each day The beta version of Mwmbl now allows user curation of search results Side projects My main problem with side projects is that I tend to stop working on them. It feels like I’ve started so many things only to abandon them, and that makes me feel bad. Over time, I’ve come to realise that this is a feature, not a bug. I work on side projects because I enjoy working on them. If I stop enjoying it, then I should stop working on them. ...

The Mwmble team took a bit of a great since August to work on some other areas of life, but we have been quietly planning the last several months around a couple of areas: Editing search results The most requested feature is to be able to suggest sites to crawl. We’re planning to go one better and let users edit the whole search results ranking and add their own search results. Promotion ...

Originally published at daoudclarke.net on 2022-07-10 Sometimes I forget why I’ve taken on this crazy, huge task. Why am I building a search engine? Will it really be better than Google one day? Will people support it? Will people even use it? And then I read something like The Bullshit Web and I remember, that, yes, there is a point. Even if I make the web better for one person, it’s worth it. Because the way things are is just wrong. ...