Sometimes I forget why Ive taken on this crazy, huge task. Why am I building a search engine? Will it really be better than Google one day? Will people support it? Will people even use it?

Source: Why the world needs a non-profit search engine

This might be crazy enough to work. Crawling via a web extension is a really good idea, though it shouldn’t be limited to Firefox. Also, I would think Elasticsearch should be considered at some point.