Introducing Hzzah!
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008from the I-can-haz-a-search-engine department…
Update: Sorry about the tacky donate link all. I tried to hide it from feed readers with WordPress’s <!–more> feature, but evidently that doesn’t apply to feeds. 
When it comes to market share, Google is to Searching as Microsoft is to Operating Systems. Thankfully Google has won their dominant position by creating a really amazing product (you can find plenty of discussions on why Microsoft is on top elsewhere).
Recently Yahoo! opened up their search APIs for anyone to use along with a handy Python library. In a time when Yahoo’s very existence is being threatened, I felt a pang of nostalgia for the search engine that fed me decent results for “free dos games” throughout the mid-90s.
So last night I whipped up a little search engine called Hzzah!*
Features:
- Simple
- No ads, cookies, or even JavaScript (at the moment at least)
- Open Source! BSD to be precise.
- Did I mention simple? That’s really all it has going for it…