Observed arrival · 2026-10-24
Burrow Search: an offline web index
Burrow Search presents an experimental search engine that downloads a signed web index and runs searches on your own computer.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
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- Journalists, activists, and whistleblowers
- Worth noticing
- The same signed index can be fetched from the project, a mirror, BitTorrent, or USB; its signature is meant to verify it across routes.
Field notes
The page diagrams a pipeline from crawler to JSONL pages, index build, signing, and local verification before lookup on the device. It says the same signed file may arrive from the project, a mirror, BitTorrent, or USB, with signature verification intended to establish its identity across routes. The project also names its tradeoffs: the index is smaller than Google's and only as current as the user's last update; its stated goal is to improve search within those limits.
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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