One of the big questions about search engines is "what is it trying to do?"
The simplest is "search for doc that contaons" . But we're used to "search for document about concept" by now. ISTRC Bing called themselves a "decision engine".
I don't know what Google is/trying to be now, but it often thinks it knows my business better than myself, excluding critical words.
I don't think there can be a universal answer. The corpus gathering is a huge barrier to entry, but having a common corpus would still allow room for competition on diversity of querying methods.
Very cool! Though it seems more like a hand-picked directory than a search engine with a crawler, as it doesn't find quite a few good noncommercial pages that I know exist.
I think humans are better at building such a thing if the aim is not gobbling up the entire web but only light websites that aren't commercial. I think that would be hard or impossible to automate. It definitely has an early 90's vibe in terms of results. Not terribly useful be but interesting nonetheless.
https://wiby.me/?q=svelte
Two links came back:
"Facts on Farts" "NiceJewishMom.com"
Not a good first impression.