About Sovoria
Sovoria is an independent search engine where every search is performed against its own index. Public web pages are discovered, crawled, and indexed directly instead of using another search engine behind the scenes.
Our Goal
Sovoria tries to build a search engine with its own crawler and search index without any external search provider or by combining results from serval sources.
Building a search index with its own crawler and maintaining it take longer but we can make sure this way every result comes from infrastructure developed for this project.
Our own index also means we are 100% in control of the search quality and ranking which can evolve without the dependency and decisions made by another company.
The Project
Sovoria is developed in my spare time and funded entirely with my own money.
One of the project's priorities is efficiency. The crawler, index, and search backend are built to run on low end hardware so operating costs stay manageable as the project grows.
Efficiency also influences how the crawler operates. Rather than downloading everything it can, it tries to collect the information needed to build a useful search index while avoiding unnecessary traffic.
There are no advertisements, sponsored results, or external search providers involved. The project grows at its own pace and stays independent.
Privacy
Sovoria does not use cookies.
The website stores only your selected theme and favicon preference in your browser. Those settings never leave your device.
When favicons are enabled, your browser requests a website's /favicon.ico directly
so its icon can be displayed in the results.
Clicks may be counted in aggregate to improve ranking and help decide when pages should be recrawled. They are not associated with any user data, fingerprint or personal profiles.
Contact
Questions about crawling, indexing, or your website are always welcome.
Please don't include sensitive information in your first email. If necessary, another communication channel can be arranged afterwards.
Indexing & Ranking
Sovoria indexes publicly accessible web pages using its own crawler. It follows standard web
conventions such as robots.txt, crawl delays, and sitemap files.
It identifies itself as sovoria.eu, avoids unnecessary downloads, and slows
down automatically if a server appears busy or responds with rate limits.
Not every page that is crawled is added to the search index. Pages are evaluated for factors such as originality, structure, and overall quality. Pages that appear to be spam, automatically generated with little value, or consist mainly of duplicate content may be excluded from the index.
Search ranking considers a combination of signals, including page content, links, metadata, and how a page relates to a search query. The exact ranking methods continue to evolve as the project grows.
Open Source
Currently the Sovoria source code it self is not public available anywhere.
Sovoria is built with open-source software. The projects, datasets, and licenses used by the service are listed in the open-source acknowledgements.