Searchr.org takes a different approach to search. We don't crawl the web or index pages, and we don't have a computer algorithm that decides how search results should be ranked. Everything about our search engine is user contributed. This includes our search terms, search results, and even the relevance of the search results. So maybe we're not even a search engine; maybe we're more of a “search dictionary.”

Why do this? We wanted to see what would happen if 100% user-contributed and moderated content was applied to search. Would this mean the first page of search results would be ultra-relevant and ultra-useful? Would sifting through pages and pages of search results be needed? Apart from doing a hard-target web search for a specific string like "3904 npn transistor," is web-crawling of billions of pages really necessary? From a search point of view, is is really that impressive that Google has done this? We don't get much use out of page 14 generated from a search query. Do you?

Searchr.org was born from the idea of allowing users to pair search results with search queries directly. In other words, you type in a search query and then tell us what you'd like to see in response to it. Users also decide on the relevance of search results by submitting rankings, causing better results to be closer to the top of the result list. Users can also suggest similar search queries to increase chances of finding useful search results.

If you're here for the first time, please consider contributing a link or two, relative to some search query for which you can suggest some search results. We really need your help. If our user-contributed database can grow, maybe we can become a useful search engine that everyone could benefit from. Can you please suggest a search term/search result pair? To do so, enter a search query into the search box on our home page and click the "Add Search Result" link.

Thanks and enjoy!