Reflections and Thoughts of Brian
Posted on: April 22, 2025, 7:25 pm
Fynd turns 1 year old tomorrow! It has been a fun and rewarding experience developing the code and watching the search engine come to life. I think it is pretty cool that it has become a sort of living, growing entity that does not require constant human input to keep running.
The core code is now complete, so over the last few months, and moving forward, development has shifted more toward improving the user interface, along with occasional tweaks to the crawlers and other backend components as needed.
Eventually, I would like to add image and news search features, which honestly seem pretty straightforward at this point. But before that, I will be focusing more on refining the Fynd UI.
Fynd has about 65 million pages indexed, and it continues to grow every second. I am very happy with the search results for most queries. While the index sounds large, it is still relatively small, and as it grows, the quality of the results keeps improving.
Looking ahead, my hope is that others will find Fynd as useful as I do for general internet searching and research, and appreciate having an alternative to mainstream search engines.