search-picker

A simple HTML page for searching various web sites

I got annoyed sending all my searches to a search engine, when I usually just wanted to go to one of a few websites. I found this annoying for two reasons:

1. Privacy: I didn’t like that Google knew everything I was searching for; and
2. ADHD: I am prone to distraction and irrelevent search results from other websites are distracting.

It occurred to me that the websites I usually want to go to already have their own search capabilites, so I can just search those sites. This simple static page to let me choose where to search. I use it as my default search engine in browsers that let me do that.

TODO

• add instructions for configuring browser to use this as search engine
• add section describing features, design goals, and non-goals

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