Boilerplate
Argand is an independent search engine for the open web, built by Nic Weyand. It operates its own crawler and index, ranks source pages, and sends result clicks to the publisher. It does not generate replacement answers or build behavioural advertising profiles from anonymous searches. The search engine is available in an early public beta.
Quick facts
- What: an independent web search engine.
- Who: Nic Weyand, sole founder and engineer.
- Built with: pure Rust; runs on modest hardware, no GPU required.
- Policy: source pages remain the destination; anonymous searches do not become behavioural profiles.
- Status: early public beta at beta.argand.org.
- Source: this landing page is open on Forgejo.
Founder bio
Nic Weyand is the founder and sole engineer of Argand. He began the project in 2025 to build an independent search engine with its own index, a CPU-only query path, and explicit privacy and quality gates.
Brand assets
- Logo / mascot mark (SVG).
- Social card (1200×630 PNG).
Please don't alter the mark's proportions or recolour it outside the
Argand palette (slate #435563 on warm paper #f2ece3).
Contact
Interview or media requests: nic@argand.org.