Show HN: Link-Archive.org

Hi HN, this is most likely the most primitive internet search engine of all time, built with CommonCrawl data [1]. It would have been a feasible candidate to work with sql.js-httpvfs [2], a WebAssembly-compiled SQLite driver on a vfs to be able to omit the server part - but when I tried it, the performance with larger result numbers was a bit too slow to be usable, so it wasn't possible.

Try searching for your hometown, for example. You'll get quite uncommon yet interesting results. Full of spam though. It really makes you appreciate the enormous filtering that common search engines apply to their results.

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/ [2] https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs