I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech

Vasile Gangal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:35:08 +0000

Big Tech killed 7 tools used by 500 million people. I rebuilt all of them in one platform.

Here's what they murdered:

🔴 Google Reader (2013) — 30M users. Killed because it didn't fit an ad spreadsheet.
🔴 Yahoo Pipes (2015) — 90,000 active pipes. The original no-code automation. Gone overnight.
🔴 Yahoo Answers (2021) — 200M users. Replaced by nothing.
🔴 DMOZ (2017) — 5M sites, 92,000 volunteer editors, 19 years of work. Bulldozed silently.
🔴 Yahoo Directory (2014) — The original internet navigation layer. Dead.
🔴 Delicious (2017) — 5.3M users. Sold 3 times then killed.
🔴 iGoogle (2013) — Tens of millions of daily users. No replacement ever came.

Nothing replaced any of them. A decade later people still beg for a Google Reader clone.

So I built it. All 7. In one platform. Called SENTINEL.

✅ Website monitoring (hosted Uptime Kuma — finally)
✅ AI RSS reader (what Google Reader would have become)
✅ Curated web directory (DMOZ rebuilt)
✅ AI Q&A (Yahoo Answers with local LLMs)
✅ No-code automation (Yahoo Pipes successor)
✅ Bookmarking (Delicious replacement)
✅ Personal dashboard (iGoogle revival)

The infrastructure part that will matter to this community:

Runs on my own bare metal server (64-core Xeon, 383GB RAM)
AI runs locally via Ollama — Qwen 2.5 14B, Llama 3 8B
No AWS. No OpenAI. No Vercel. No data leaving my servers.
PostgreSQL + pgvector + Apache AGE
Zero ads. Zero tracking. Free tier is genuinely free forever.

Launched today. 3.2M sites already indexed (seeded from the DMOZ dump).

🔗 https://sentinel.oblivionzone.com

Free to use. No credit card. Tear it apart — I want honest feedback.

Building a Privacy Search Engine with NSA Open Source Tools

Vasile Gangal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:13:31 +0000

One search. 246 engines. Zero tracking.

Unlike Google or even DuckDuckGo, OBLIVION queries 246 independent search sources simultaneously, giving you the most comprehensive results on the internet — without collecting a single data point about you.

Key features for early adopters:
• AI Answers — Instant summaries powered by local AI (Ollama), not cloud APIs
• Scam Shield — Real-time safety ratings on every result
• 20+ Built-In Tools — Weather, finance, drug checker, car recalls, recipes, nutrition
• Free Encrypted Email — @oblivionsearch.com accounts
• Tor & IPFS Access — Search the decentralized web
• 30 Languages — Full localization

What we're looking for:
Early adopter feedback on search result quality, AI answer accuracy, and Scam Shield effectiveness. Your searches are yours alone — help us build the search engine the internet deserves.

Try it now: https://oblivionsearch.com (no signup required)

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I Rebuilt Google Reader ,Yahoo Pipes , DMOZ and other tools Big Tech

Building a Privacy Search Engine with NSA Open Source Tools