Xonaly founder Jonathan Bouchard is building a Canadian search engine from scratch

The Quebec project says it has indexed more than 1.3 million pages without Google, Bing, tracking, ads, or outside funding.

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Why it matters

Xonaly is small, but its bet is pointed: privacy search is more defensible when the founder owns the crawler, index, and infrastructure instead of reskinning an incumbent.

Illustration of Xonaly founder Jonathan Bouchard thoughtfully assembling a conceptual search interface for his Canadian search engine.

The Quebec project says it has indexed more than 1.3 million pages without Google, Bing, tracking, ads, or outside funding.

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