A search index with nothing in it but people
Every site in this ring got read by a person before it went in, and every post gets screened on the way through. Search across all of them. A content farm would have to fool a human first and then keep fooling one.
This is the real index, answering live. Type three characters.
Put it on your own site
Two lines. No build step, no framework, no npm. About two kilobytes on the wire. It sets no cookie, keeps nothing, and makes exactly one request in its life: the search somebody typed.
<div id="noo-search"></div> <script src="https://nicheof.one/noo/embed.js" data-key="YOUR-KEY" defer></script>
It inherits the font and the colours of whatever page it lands on, so it turns up looking like part of your site instead of a rental unit somebody parked in your sidebar.
The key is free and it stays free. It costs an email address, because I want to know whose sites are running my search on them, and because knowing that is the only thing that makes cutting off a bad one possible.
You get a sign-in link, and the snippet is waiting behind it. Already have an account? Go straight there.
The part I have to say out loud
The ring badge is inert HTML and always will be. No script, nothing that phones home. I've said that in public and I meant it.
This is a script. Different thing, bigger ask. You're putting a file I control into your readers' browsers, and that deserves a second's thought instead of a paste because a stranger on the internet said so.
So: no tracker, no cookie, no storage, no beacon, nothing loaded from anywhere else. You can read the whole file in about two minutes, and it's short on purpose so that's a real option and not a dare. There's no integrity hash on it, deliberately, because a pinned hash means I can't ship you a security fix without breaking your page first.
If that's not a trade you want, take the badge and skip this. The ring works the same either way and nobody's counting.
What it costs
Nothing, and there's no later. Two thousand searches a day per key, which is a ceiling to stop one site running up a bill on the rest, not a number I'm going to offer to raise for money. Revoke the key whenever you feel like it, pull the two lines, and your page goes back to exactly what it was.
No site to put it on yet? That's the real thing to fix first, and I've got opinions about how that mostly come down to owning the thing and keeping it cheap.