Privacy-First No-Log Search Engine
Budget: $250 – $750 USD
I want to build a full-featured web search engine that never tracks, profiles, or even remembers a single thing about its users. Privacy protection, no data storage, and a completely free-to-use service are non-negotiable cornerstones of this project.
What matters most is verifiable privacy. Every request must pass through the stack without creating a persistent record—no IP logs, no query logs, no hidden analytics. If data must exist briefly for technical reasons, it should be wiped automatically and provably within seconds.
Functionally I still need everything people expect from a modern engine: crawl, index, rank, and present results at speed. I’m open to creative architecture choices—self-hosted clusters, hybrid APIs, or privacy-hardened cloud instances—as long as the finished product meets the zero-data standard.
Key deliverables
• A crawler and indexing pipeline that stores only the data necessary to serve results, never user identifiers.
• A search API and front-end UI that operate over HTTPS with strong TLS, HSTS, and no third-party calls.
• Source code, build scripts, and deployment docs that can pass an independent audit for “no logging / no tracking.”
• A concise privacy white-paper describing exactly how user anonymity is preserved.
Acceptance criteria
• External audit or reproducible test showing no personally identifiable information is written to disk or transmitted to analytics endpoints.
• All components run successfully in a clean container or VM, reproducible via the provided scripts.
• Real-world benchmark: first-page results delivered in under 600 ms for a 1-million-page test index.
I am not interested in ad targeting, data resale, or paywalls. The end goal is a genuinely free service that proves the internet can respect people’s rights. If your engineering mindset aligns with that mission, let’s make it happen.
What matters most is verifiable privacy. Every request must pass through the stack without creating a persistent record—no IP logs, no query logs, no hidden analytics. If data must exist briefly for technical reasons, it should be wiped automatically and provably within seconds.
Functionally I still need everything people expect from a modern engine: crawl, index, rank, and present results at speed. I’m open to creative architecture choices—self-hosted clusters, hybrid APIs, or privacy-hardened cloud instances—as long as the finished product meets the zero-data standard.
Key deliverables
• A crawler and indexing pipeline that stores only the data necessary to serve results, never user identifiers.
• A search API and front-end UI that operate over HTTPS with strong TLS, HSTS, and no third-party calls.
• Source code, build scripts, and deployment docs that can pass an independent audit for “no logging / no tracking.”
• A concise privacy white-paper describing exactly how user anonymity is preserved.
Acceptance criteria
• External audit or reproducible test showing no personally identifiable information is written to disk or transmitted to analytics endpoints.
• All components run successfully in a clean container or VM, reproducible via the provided scripts.
• Real-world benchmark: first-page results delivered in under 600 ms for a 1-million-page test index.
I am not interested in ad targeting, data resale, or paywalls. The end goal is a genuinely free service that proves the internet can respect people’s rights. If your engineering mindset aligns with that mission, let’s make it happen.