About ProjectGlass

ProjectGlass is a standalone search engine with its own persistent index, not a wrapper around someone else's results. It merges its own index, an overlap index shared with Oblivion, and a third external source queried alongside them, then ranks the merged results itself.

No generative AI in the loop

Nothing in the ranking or result path is generated by a language model, ever. Query understanding is plain part-of-speech tagging and named-entity recognition, ranking is a transparent weighted-scoring function, and every result comes from a real index or a real external engine, not a model's guess at one.

Anonymous by default

With no account, the only cookie set is a single one named ARM, holding nothing but a ranking arm assignment: A, B, or C. It carries no session id, no identifier of any kind, and dies with the browser. There is no cross-session tracking, and nothing here reconstructs a returning visitor from anything else, IP address or user agent included.

Self-evolving ranking, provably

Every visit is randomly assigned one of three ranking arms. Arm A is actively tuned, arm B holds whatever last won a promotion, and arm C is a permanent, frozen control that never changes, enforced at the database level, not just in application code. A only replaces B when it beats it by a documented margin over enough traffic to trust the result, and arm C stays there to catch quiet drift over time. Nothing is promoted on a hunch.

Transparent by construction

Every result shows which underlying engine actually produced it and, where relevant, what query was actually sent to that engine, no black box in between. That per-engine query is computed from the same deterministic ruleset for every engine that external source happens to have enabled, not a fixed hand-picked list.

Optional accounts

Signing up is entirely optional and unlocks personal tuning only for you: choosing a fixed ranking arm instead of the random experiment, muting or boosting specific domains, and a mild boost learned from your own click history. None of it is mixed into the anonymous ranking experiment above, and none of it exists unless you create an account for it.