Crawl the web
Lux gathers information from a selected and expanding collection of websites.
Open-source search by Big-A
Explore Lux
The idea
An independent
search project.
Lux is a free and open-source search engine developed by Big-A. It began as a Google-powered search page and is now being rebuilt around its own crawler, index, search interface, and API.
Build the index
Page information becomes structured searchable data rather than a pile of disconnected documents.
Return results
Queries move through the Lux index and matching pages become search results.
Under the surface
What happens
behind a search.
Lux crawls approved websites, stores searchable information from their pages, and uses that index to answer searches. The network below is a visual illustration of those parts working together.
The collection
13,800+
websites crawled.
And growing.
Lux is still a young search engine, so its index covers a selected collection of websites rather than the entire web. Each added website expands what Lux can search.
How it works
From page
to result.
The pieces can change as Lux develops, but the basic journey remains easy to understand.
1Discover a website
2Crawl useful page information
3Add searchable data to the index
4Match a Lux query
5Present the result
Explore the Lux project.
Read the project history, explore the API, or suggest another website for Lux to crawl.