About this project
This is a simple redirection engine (not a search engine!) that
keeps track of your searches locally. Inspired by
Und*ck by Theo Browne and extended by
IndexedDB to save previous queries. This was mostly a learning exercise
and proof of concept for using IndexedDB in a larger project, and only
uses vanilla JavaScript APIs without any libraries or build steps. If I’m
going to recommend someone learn vanilla HTML/CSS/JS before using
something like React, then I figured I should know what the regular
IndexedDB API looks like before using a wrapper for it (and hey, I might
as well use vanilla HTML/CSS/JS too while I’m at it). The page resources
are cached on the client so that every search doesn't require a roundtrip
to fetch the mostly static files this site uses. While only a limited
number of hardcoded bangs are supported here, it would be pretty trivial
to instead perform a lookup on all of the ones that DuckDuckGo uses
themselves.
To search, use the box below or configure your browser to use
https://bang.zsrobinson.com?q=%s as it’s custom search
engine. Since everything is kept local, your searches are not sent to any
servers besides those of the search engine you’re forwarded to.