This campaign is to help me improve and expand the infrastructure of Gokstad.us, a commercial search engine. Since December 2023 I have been developing a search engine system from the ground up. While other engines are just adopting Google and slapping their own logo on it, I am utilizing open source software so there are no back doors into my tech. The engine's core systems are physical servers that cannot be removed, shut down, censored or controlled by anyone but me and my team.

For anyone paying attention to how the internet has been working over the last half decade they would have noticed that of select few major corporate search engines have dominated the internet, and in doing so created a tech hegemony of the flow of information. Recently people have begun noticing that not only have search results become repetitive where you are provided Pages upon pages of the same 10 results looped, a lot of search engines no longer provide results beyond the first three pages. It's almost as if the internet is disappearing. And this is what big Tech wants the masses to believe. The reality is the internet hasn't gone anywhere. They are no longer showing results from the majority of the internet, but rather a curated list of approved sources. And this covers all the search engines you use.

This is where I aspire to fill a need. We need a search engine that looks to the outliers, that open up the scary "dark web", that is the industry created scare word meaning the internet outside Google and big social media. A search engine that looks to the buried internet. A search engine that goes into the unknown to provide results you won't find on other search engines.