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It's fast and apparently wide enough, or at least I found what I searched for. Summarisation is nice.

UI: The refining keywords are hard to read because they are not sorted. The gradient borders around search results are a bit too much, better go with something more understated.

It would be nice to tell a few things about the underlying technology. Are you using other search engines under the hood? How large is the index?

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Thank you for your feedback!

I take both your points about the UI. Tags are a bit overwhelming. i am working on solving that problem.

Underlying Tech: i am using clojure/redis/mongo on the backed. React/redux on the front end. I am partially using my own index but for the most part (especially for new searches) relying on Bing api.

I'm contemplating offering "indexing as a service" could you share whether you at any point thought about buying a (partial) index? And if so, what are parameters you'd like to set: source pages, intervall etc. And lastly how to consume the index.

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