Nearly every search request is dependant on huge companies. For example, Startpage depends entirely on Google1.
DuckDuckGo is a bit better, but still depends on these indexes.2
So we decided to built RastiSearch,a federated search engine independent from big company indexes.
The idea is that everyone could index a part of the web by yourself which you can then search.
But, when you search for a term, the engine directly asks other instances for results (because you could probably never index the whole web).
Together with Pingu, Florian and Mattis, I participated at YH4F 2026 and won a price for the Best Teamwork Project!
Find out more at the project site!