Frequently asked questions

A search engine with its own index. Web results come from pages we have indexed ourselves, not from Google, Bing or any other search engine, ranked by how well a page matches your words and how widely its site is linked across the web. Links to read, not answers to swallow.

No. Searches aren't stored or logged, and nothing is tied to you. The sites you pin, raise, lower or block and your own bangs are kept on your device, in your browser, not on our servers.

Three public sources: Common Crawl's open archive of the web, the official English Wikipedia download, and DomainlessBot, our own crawler, which follows every site's robots.txt. The index is far smaller than Google's, so a rare or brand-new page may not be in it yet.

Yes. Each result's ⋯ menu pins, raises, lowers or blocks its site, for you alone. Bangs jump straight to another site's search: !w Wikipedia, !gh GitHub, !osm OpenStreetMap, !mdn MDN, and you can add your own.

It opens inside Domainless, between the top bar and the bottom menu, locked down: the page can't take over Domainless, pop up dialogs, download files or use your camera, microphone or location, and it isn't told what you searched for. The bar above it always names the site you're on. Some sites don't allow being shown inside other sites; for those, and whenever you like, Open takes you to the site in a new tab.

The Images, Videos and Scroll tabs still gather results from public sources, including other search engines, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Wikimedia Commons. Only web results come from our own index so far.

DomainlessBot obeys robots.txt and Crawl-delay, fetches at most one page a second from a site, and skips pages marked noindex; see DomainlessBot for how to limit or block it. To have a page removed, send us a report with its address.