Project Glass is a transparent privacy-focused search engine that will always be free from AI getting in the way.
I picked the name glass b/c transparent, you can see the algorithm thats ranking the searches, you can even see a breakdown of what went into each result.
Project Glass is supposed to be a call to action, that you *don't* need AI shoved into everything you do in order for the internet to be around, that AI is *not* the future of the internet.I came up with the idea for this after getting sick and tired of clicking on the "AI mode" on google for the 50th time by mistake.
We do not use an LLM to summarize or synthesize content or in the
ranking of pages, results are predictable and just use a simple
public (see below) weighted algorithm to sort them.
And the main driver of ranking is number of clicks, its on a log
function, meaning
more clicks = more weight = Higher on the page.
It doesn't look at SEO tags or anything like that, it just grabs a
small chunk (snippet) of the page, and the page title and thats
what matters to the ranking.
I **do not** accept payments for higher rankings, nor will we
ever.
We do not track you personally. We are privacy-first by design. We do not store personal search history tied to an identity, we do not log IP addresses, and we do not use tracking cookies to build a profile of you.
I cannot see who searched for what. I can only see that "somebody" searched for a term. This helps identify which queries need better results and allows for tuning the algorithm.
The ranking is determined by a weighted sum of several factors. Here are the current weights:
Core Factors:
Title Match:
0.11
Body Match:
0.42
Domain Match:
0.50
User Behavior Factors:
Click Rate:
3.01
Vote Score:
1.25
Query-Domain Affinity:
0.40
Click Rank Demotion:
-0.15
Recency Factors:
Recency Weight:
-3.00
Recency Half-life:
365
days
Curation & Metadata Factors:
Tag Match:
0.50
Priority Boost:
1.01
Link Frequency:
0.15
What that is, its how we track clicks, all it does it make a
ticker on the server side go up by one. No data is collected.
The Token is there to prevent people from spamming or scripting
clicks, its randomly generated for each result and expires after
one use.
Since clicks are such a huge part of the algorithm, I need to make
sure it stays protected and spam free.
The arrows allow you to provide direct feedback on the quality of
a search result. Your vote contributes to the result's "Vote
Score".
A result with more upvotes will be scored higher in
future searches, while a result with more downvotes will be scored
lower. The current weight for this factor is
1.25.