sese-engine: Build a Personal Search Engine on Raspberry Pi for Under $12/Year

sese-engine: A Pocket-Sized Search Engine You Can Run on a Raspberry Pi Core question answered in one line: Can a single Python script replace Google for your private web corner? Yes—sese-engine builds a personal index you control, on hardware cheaper than a pizza. 1 Why Bother Building Another Search Engine? Core question: “Google and Baidu already exist—why roll my own?” Because ranking secrecy, ads, and disappearing pages hurt research. sese-engine keeps crawl rules, index data, and ranking weights on your disk, visible and editable. Author’s reflection: After losing half a day scrolling past ads for “best VPN” while hunting RFC …