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Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks
Search engines have become a wasteland of ads and AI generated content. Google once stood as the champion of the internet, unmatched in it's quality of results and speed.
Web scrappers, while still not exactly trial have become more widely understood, especially in the age of AI scrapping every corner of the internet for training data. For this I made use of reqwest for non blocking api calls, scraper to performant parse the dom, and urlencoding to pull out the href of the a tags. While not shown in inspect element, a response from querying the DDG endpoint gives back a tags with a differing link.
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