Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine (opens in new tab)

As I've used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out https://wiby.org/ is distinct from the older version, https://wiby.me/, which only indexes few sites.

Wiby.org is my homepage. I occasionally click "surprise me..." 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:

https://searx.me/

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 "corporate".

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.

It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(

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: https://videohubapp.com/

Searched for "Video Hub App" and it didn't find my website :(

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

I'm impressed with the quality of the results.

I get 502 bad gateway.

Is it powered by Bing?

I got a chuckle of the 'wibyplex' photo in the about page.

Seems like there is an increasing need for alternative search engines