AxiomWeb

A clean, fast web search engine. No API keys required. Fetches and merges results from multiple search engines, ranks them, and serves the best ones.

How it works

AxiomWeb scrapes results from three independent sources in parallel:

| Engine | Type | |---|---| | DuckDuckGo | HTML scrape | | Bing | HTML scrape (web, images, news) | | Mojeek | HTML scrape (independent index) |

Results are merged and ranked by a scoring algorithm that boosts results appearing across multiple engines, penalizes low positions, and rewards quality signals (good descriptions, relevant titles). The top 10 are returned.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/axiomweb
cd axiomweb
npm install
npm start
# → http://localhost:3000

That's it. No .env, no API keys.

URL structure

| URL | Description | |---|---| | / | Home page | | /search?q=your+query | Web results | | /search?q=cats&type=images | Image results | | /search?q=news&type=news | News results | | /search?q=cats&page=2 | Pagination |

Config (optional)

cp .env.example .env

PORT=3000       # default 3000
CACHE_TTL=300   # seconds to cache results (default 5 min)

Deploying

Railway / Render / Fly.io

Push to GitHub, connect repo, deploy. Set PORT if needed.

Self-hosted

NODE_ENV=production npm start

Docker

FROM node:20-alpine
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci --omit=dev
COPY . .
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["node", "src/server.js"]

Dev mode (auto-restart)

npm run dev

License

MIT