About
Numbers as of 2 November 2026.
flâneur is a search engine for the pages people chose to save, so you can find your next rabbit hole. 6,767 readers have made 118,790 saves.
Your search engine
Search from the bar on the home page, or make flâneur your browser's search engine so that a search from the address bar starts here. A result takes you to the page itself. When flâneur has kept a readable copy of a page, the ▾ beside its address opens that copy as Cached. To add a page flâneur lacks, search for its address and choose Add, or enter it on Add a page. Adding a site's front page also adds up to 30 pages it links to.
Where the pages come from
Most saves and marked passages were made by readers on an earlier public bookmarking service and copied from it. Many are years older than flâneur, which is why a save can be older than the site. flâneur checks that service for new saves every hour. The last check finished at . Until 2 November 2026 readers could also save pages here; flâneur has no sign-in now, and nothing here saves.
The index holds 112,326 pages: the pages readers saved, and the public pages visitors added.
What search leaves out
flâneur raises no site and hides none by name. Search leaves out the pages flâneur could not read when it fetched them:
- 9,332 that the site would not give us
- 4,782 that answered with an error or could not be reached
- 2,087 that were not an article
- 1,605 that took too long to load
Search can find 82,189 pages by their meaning. A page leaves the index only when someone asks: write to corporate@sdan.cc. A removal is done by hand, and the hourly check can bring back a page it copied.
How search works
Search matches meaning. Each article has one embedding, a list of numbers made from its title and text, and the articles nearest your question come first, after any page whose title or address you typed exactly. When a reader marked a passage close to your question, that passage shows under the result.
The embeddings come from @cf/google/embeddinggemma-300m, a model that Cloudflare runs for flâneur.
What a search leaves behind
Your words go to flâneur's server, which searches with them and keeps none of them in its database. It keeps the embedding of your words for up to 30 days, under a one-way hash of the words and with nothing about who asked, so the same search by anyone skips that step. Results are cached for five minutes. The results page is titled with your words, and our analytics records page titles, so your words reach our analytics too. The privacy page has the details.
The card
Some questions get a card beside the results: a small drawing of how the idea works, made by a model from the results. The pen marks what the results back, checked against their text. The pencil is the model's own arrangement.
Elsewhere
- The map on the home lays out the pages readers saved and marked, so pages that read alike sit near each other. A search's Map tab shows where its results sit on it.
- A search's Readers tab names the readers who saved its results and finds a reader by name. Each reader's page is their library.
Privacy, terms and contact
Read the privacy page and the terms. For questions or corrections, message corporate@sdan.cc.