About Us
Based in the UK, our small but talented team has a wealth of experience with Internet marketing and web development, spanning almost two decades.
Our business partners, based all over the world, range from fledgling start-ups to large corporations.
With Search Expander, our goal is to provide innovative search engine technology that alternative search engines (such as private and charitable search engines) can use to:
- enhance their user experience
- improve their user retention
- increase their profits
- offer a viable alternative to Google
Building Search Expander:
Search Expander has been many years in the making and it continues to evolve, year by year.
In 2017, when we couldn’t find a search engine that was private, charitable and had a search experience that rivalled that of Google, we decided to build one ourselves. It was an audacious goal but we felt confident we could do it.
In 2020, after overcoming numerous challenges, we finally launched our charitable search engine SearchScene.com, in partnership with Microsoft Bing. SearchScene donated over 95% of its profits to a range of environmental and humanitarian charities, making it one of the most charitable search engines on the planet. It was visually engaging, with beautiful wallpaper scenery which changed daily, and innovative features that facilitated fundraising as a group. We also had plans to make it 100% private.
To our delight, SearchScene was enthusiastically embraced by thousands of people all over the world. However, growing our user-base proved incredibly expensive. We eventually came to the conclusion that it made more sense for us to help other alternative search engines to compete with Google, rather than compete with these alternative search engines that had similar goals to ours.
On 31 December 2021, we closed SearchScene and focused all of our efforts on developing our innovative search engine technology as a stand-alone service that other search engines could use.
Less than 6 months later, in May 2022, we launched Search Expander and we are now helping to power several private and charitable search engines. Staying true to our values, we offer charitable search engines a special discount.
Get in Touch
If you operate a search engine, please feel free to contact us, check out our How it Works page, or sign-up for free to play around with our API for yourself.
If you use an alternative search engine that you think might benefit from Search Expander’s innovative features, please let your search engine know how you feel! They may not realise that there is a demand from their users for such features.
If you have a wish list of features that you would love to see added to Search Expander, please let us know. We are always looking for new ways to make things even better.