Ohana 🌿

A language-specific search engine for the living web.

Motivation

This search engine is designed to do two things:

1. Facilitate search beyond mainstream platforms (Reddit, Weibo, etc) into the re-fledgling indie web (e.g. personal websites, Neocities pages, niche forums, etc).
2. Allow for language-specific filtering of search results.

In other words, this tool helps you browse the living web in your target language.

Architecture

Crawler

Implemented in Go.

Database

Implemented with Postgresql.

Indexer

Implemented in Java 25 via Maven.

Ranking Engine

Implemented in Python.

Query Engine

Implemented in Java 25 using Spring via Gradle.

Client

Implemented in PHP.