A smaller search engine, on purpose
Findora does not crawl the entire web. It searches a reviewed list of sources that are worth reading: reference works, official documentation, museum collections, public research bodies and newsrooms. Fewer results, chosen deliberately, is the whole idea.
- Indexed pages
- 69
- Topic categories
- 15
- Images
- 10
- Video sources
- 10
- News sections
- 12
How the index works
Every entry carries a title, a short summary written for humans rather than for ranking, a set of topic keywords, and a category. When you search, your words are stripped of punctuation and common filler, then matched against each of those fields. A match in the title counts for more than a match in the summary, a whole-word match counts for more than a partial one, and results that cover more of your query rise above results that only catch one word.
Nothing is auction based. No source can pay to move up, and there is no advertising layer sitting above the results.
What the tabs do
- All ranks pages from the main index and pages the results eight at a time.
- Images searches captioned photography, each one linked back to a related source.
- Videos covers explainer and lecture channels, matched on subject rather than upload date.
- News points at newsroom sections rather than individual headlines, so a link is still useful a month later.
Privacy
Searches are answered by matching against the index, so there is no profile to build and nothing to sell. Your recent searches are kept only in your own browser so the box can suggest them back to you, and clearing your browser data removes them for good.
Where it falls short
A curated index has real limits. Breaking events, local businesses, product prices and very specialised queries will often return nothing, because those pages were never added. When that happens the results page suggests a nearby spelling or a broader topic instead of guessing.
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