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About SLSearch

SLSearch is a small, experimental metasearch engine that returns results from other search engines.

It also includes fast instant answers for common questions like time, weather and definitions.

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How it works

Instead of maintaining its own web index, SLSearch works by randomly selecting a search provider for each query and presenting their results in a clean, minimal interface.

How a typical search works:

1. When you enter a query, SLSearch randomly chooses a search engine.

2. The chosen provider's results are fetched.

3. SLSearch formats those results into a unified style.

4. Some queries trigger instant answers, providing information without needing to open external links.

This approach keeps SLSearch lightweight and avoids complex ranking or merging logic used by traditional metasearch engines.

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Privacy & Security

SLSearch is not a privacy-focused search engine.

However, it does not track your search history or build any kind of profile about you.

To protect the service from automated bots, SLSearch uses:

1. A security token to verify real sessions

2. A security cookie that combines non-personal request details to identify automated traffic

3. Basic bot detection checks during search requests

4. Simple rate limiting to prevent spam

These security mechanisms exist only to stop bots and abuse.

SLSearch does not use this technical data for advertising, personalization, or any other purpose.

No accounts are stored, and no personal information is collected.

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Stability & Limitations

SLSearch has the following limitations:

1. No own web index (relies on external APIs)

2. Occasionally slow if the selected API provider is slow

3. Instant answers depend on third-party APIs and may fail

4. Search results depend entirely on the selected provider

5. No consistent SafeSearch yet

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Roadmap & Future Plans

1. More instant answer types (sport scores, stocks quotes, lottery numbers, etc...)

2. Reverse image search

3. Optional SafeSearch setting

4. Optional search location & time period filters

5. Experimental indexing (unlikely but possible in small scale)

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Credits

SLSearch makes use of:

1. Flask

2. Various search APIs

3. Open-source libraries (httpx, cloudscraper, BeautifulSoup4, etc...)

4. Third-party weather & time APIs

Even though SLSearch itself is not open-source, it utilizes many open libraries and APIs.