# PriEco: New open source web search engine

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/prieco-new-open-source-web-search-engine/12611
**Category:** Project Showcase
**Created:** 2023-05-16T17:05:53Z
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## Post 100 by @JojoYou — 2026-07-03T09:50:55Z

> [@Add Mwmbl (Search Engine)](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/add-mwmbl-search-engine/32668/25):
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> According to one of the devs, Mwmbl currently has around 500 million indexed pages (“when I last checked [sic!]”) which is, well, not two times as much as PriEco, but significantly more than it. (I am not trying to discard or not appreciate PriEco’s effort, in fact it is a great project and I think has its own advantages too, I am just comparing two samely unknown, privacy-focused search engines.) PriEco has around 350 million right now.

You’re right, it’s at ~360M right now. I’m now improving the index architecture, so inserts are paused. But I already have over 100GB of compressed data waiting to be inserted. I believe that would cross 400M  
I’m keeping you all updated here [PriEco Quality Benchmarking - #8 by JojoYou](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/prieco-quality-benchmarking/38289/8)  
If I understood correctly how Mwmbl works, inside it’s a completely different project to PriEco

PriEco is actually 2 months older than Mwmbl, but for 3 years of its existence, I was trying to create something like Kagi, or more closely to SearX, SearXNG as I didn’t know about Kagi back then. As I don’t believe paying for web search engine by default is viable option for most people, I wanted to keep it fully free. Which isn’t possible

So, I worked on PriEco Crawler. PriEco Index is just months old, while Mwmbl is 4.5y  
And as I reached 300M, I shifted my focus from scale to crawling the exact URLs PriEco users would need

Mwmbl also runs on a donated VPS, I own my hardware

I see I could seem negative here. I am truly not trying to be, in fact I learned some stuff from Mwmbl too  
Their new UI is much better than the last one, and they do certainly have an architectural advantage compared to me in search speed

**Edit:** Also, I have an idea I should do regardless, because of it PriEco will get close to 500M after I’m done improving the index architecture

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