Cool project! I’m always on the lookout for more search services. It works without Javascript, which is great! It’s very clean and focused.

The Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) for Google are embarrassingly large. Here’s a comparison from Kagi: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-speed.html

It’s a little surprising that Duckduckgo’s SERPs are even bigger…

I know of a few others that fit this use case, if anyone’s interested.

Kagi’s interface works entirely without Javascript and is a meta-search engine with results from Google, Bing, and its own indexes, and I think it has some of the best results (paid search though).

Mojeek is another search engine which uses its own index and is accessible without Javascript.

Another cool, fast search engine with its own index (though smaller) is Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/

This one is free software, and you can view the sources here: https://git.marginalia.nu/marginalia/marginalia.nu

And there’s also Searx, which is a fairly lightweight (but nowhere near as much as Blaze is) metasearch engine released as free software: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

You can build visual novels in Ren’Py, which uses only Python, but that might not be what you’re looking for.

However, there are independent engines out there. The first one that pops to mind is Gigablast, which does it’s own indexing/crawling.

Gigablast went down 2 months ago. The crawler is available as free software, though.

Mojeek’s Search Engine Map gives you a good picture of the search engines out there. You can also see Seirdy’s very informative post on all the different search engines out there, which is fairly regularly updated: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/