I've been frustrated with search for a while.

There are a lot of alternatives to Google now. Brave and Mojeek have their own indexes, Marginalia focuses on the independent web, SearXNG lets you combine results from different search engines, and Kagi has probably gone furthest with user customization.

But even Kagi and SearXNG have limitations. Kagi gives you control over individual websites, while SearXNG gives you control over which engines you search. I wanted to go a step further: what if you could actually control how your results are ranked?

So I built Slick.

Slick has its own independent index, and lets you customize ranking instead of treating it as a black box. You can influence how different sites and results are ranked based on what you actually want to see.

I'm still building the index and improving the ranking system, so it's nowhere near Google in scale. I've been building the crawler, index, ranking system, and search interface myself, and I'd like to see whether this approach to search is actually useful.

For now, Slick uses DuckDuckGo by default while the independent Slick index continues to grow. You can switch to Slick's own index when you want to try it.