Boilerplate
Argand is an independent, privacy-first search engine built in pure Rust by one person, Nic Weyand. It returns quality results without AI overviews, info boxes, or scraped answer panels, and routes every click back to the source site instead of keeping the traffic. Argand stores no per-user query history and builds no advertising profiles; its accounts use open, portable standards (DIDs and Solid Pods) rather than Argand-controlled logins. The first public version is targeted for mid-2026.
Quick facts
- What: an independent search engine and a growing family of privacy-first tools.
- Who: Nic Weyand, sole founder and engineer.
- Built with: pure Rust; runs on modest hardware, no GPU required.
- Stance: no AI-generated answers, no cross-web tracking, no selling user data.
- Status: pre-launch; public release targeted for mid-2026.
- Source: this landing page is open on Forgejo.
Founder bio
Nic Weyand is the founder and sole engineer of Argand. He started building it after watching Google decline from a tool that surfaced the page you wanted into one that buries it under summaries, panels, and ads. Argand is his attempt to build the opposite: a search engine that sends people to the open web instead of harvesting them.
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.