David, meet Goliath.

Google is a trillion-dollar company with a hundred thousand employees. Parsek is one developer in Buenos Aires with a laptop.

Parsek isn't a wrapper around somebody else's search API. It has its own crawler, ParsekBot, which reads the web every minute of every day. Everything it reads goes into its own index. When you search, your query runs against that index, ranked by relevance (BM25) and by how many other sites trust a page. Right now that index holds 32,844 pages, and it grows while you read this.

It's smaller than Google. It's also yours to shape: add your site, bid on a keyword, or buy the top of the page for a day.

For webmasters

ParsekBot identifies itself as ParsekBot/1.0, respects robots.txt, reads at most one page per site per minute, and honours noindex and nofollow. To opt out:

User-agent: ParsekBot
Disallow: /

Make Parsek your default

Your browser can use Parsek as its search engine. In Chrome, visit this page, then open Settings → Search engine → Manage, and Parsek will be listed.