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cl0q — free, independent search

A search engine with its own crawler and index, on its way to 100 million sites — and we never log what you search.

Going open source soon
Search tips — power operators

Text — narrow what you're looking for:

Infrastructure — pivot across the network, not the text:

Operators stack — combine as many as you like (asn:13335 intitle:login -site:github.io). favicon:<sha256> finds every site serving the same icon; grab a hash from any result's Details or from the API. Prefer browsing? Explore the index by TLD, country, server or language.

What is cl0q?

cl0q is a free, independent search engine — and it's going open source soon. Instead of reselling another search engine's results, cl0q runs its own crawler and its own index, adding thousands of new websites every day.

Our goal: 100 million sites in the index. Use it right here on cl0q.com today — and once the code is published you'll be able to read every line and run your own copy. No lock-in, no fees, no black box.

How the engine works

cl0q turns the open web into searchable results in three stages — and your query never gets stored along the way.

How cl0q works cl0q's own crawlers fetch and parse pages from the open web, cl0q builds a ranked full-text index, and your search returns results in milliseconds without ever being logged. crawl index search The open web billions of pages cl0q crawlers our own bots cl0q index full-text, ranked Your results in milliseconds Searches are processed in memory — never logged
1

Crawl

Our own crawlers continuously fetch and parse pages from across the web — politely, at most one request per second to any server — pulling titles, descriptions, links and metadata. How our bots behave →

2

Index

Those pages are normalized, enriched with DNS & network data, and stored in a full-text index ranked for relevance.

3

Search

You type a query and get ranked results in milliseconds — handled in memory and immediately discarded.

We don't log your searches

Privacy is the default, not an upsell. Searching needs no account, sets no cookies, and keeps no search history (accounts are optional, passkey-only, and only for community features). Our crawlers gather the index ahead of time, so answering your query never requires storing it.

  • Queries are processed in memory and then discarded — never written to a database.
  • No profiles, no behavioral ad targeting, no cross-site tracking.
  • We're going open source soon, so you'll be able to audit these claims yourself.

Read the full Privacy Policy →

Run a crawler (early access)

Today cl0q's own crawlers build the whole index. We're opening a contributor program so others can run a crawler node and add pages to the shared index. It's in early access, and we set each node up by hand.

Want to help keep the open web searchable? Email us and we'll get you started:

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