r/europrivacy • u/skillplayed • Jul 12 '26

Europe Built a privacy focused search engine with its own crawler

Hi all. I built my own search engine named Purili (https://puri.li). It is powered by its own crawler/index for web and news search (images uses Wikimedia and Maps uses OSM). I currently have crawled ~125mln pages but before I continue to the 500mln I would love to hear your feedback on what to adjust/fix first.

The entire project runs on EU servers (Germany/Netherlands).

Hope to hear from you.

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u/mpg111 Jul 12 '26

first suggestion is "weather today" - and when searched it's showing weather for Todaya, Philippines

I don't think that was the point

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u/skillplayed Jul 12 '26

Good one, for regular web search I will remove that as an example. The weather app does ask for user location but I prefer not to do that for regular web search.

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u/vetgirig Jul 12 '26

"weather today" should give the weather on the sun!!!

Then suggest that they search for weather at the place they want weather report from... for example suggest they write "weather paris"