When ready (maybe in a few months), this will be an independent, privacy-focused, ad-free search engine with its own crawler. We admit that the launch is delayed. That's because, the more we crawl, the more our speed slows down, and we are still trying to figure out why. Our crawler shouldn't misbehave, but if it does, you can crawl-delay it (in seconds) or disallow it by the user-agent WepchSearchEngine in your robots.txt:
User-agent: WepchSearchEngine
Crawl-delay: 30
or even:
User-agent: WepchSearchEngine
Disallow: /
We are a small bootstrapped team intending to provide a serious alternative to major search engines. We will never sell ads or personal data. Please contact us at
nokrogi@gmail.com if you have questions, suspect bugs, or want to support us.