I would like to know your reasoning as to why search cannot be decoupled from the browser; I would like to know why you think that a browser war began about six months ago.
Trying to find time to continue work on something a bit more polished but it is not ready. This is my response in another thread, either ctrl+f my un or "-2" and you will see response to similar query.
Idea is "so obviously crazy", mentioning it publicly for several months and begging people to consider it and work on it has been met with down votes or completely ignoring it. Which means, if you realize it now and start working on it, you will have ~6 (I think less now though) head start as people catch up with it.
edit: Because I don't think this makes sense as a model for search. http://imgur.com/Gz7hXY7
The image (really confusingly) illustrates the searchflow model:
Broweser ==> Google
Goolge ==> Results
results ===> Hacker news or another aggregator
aggregator ===> your fav. sub community (because gooigle discovery sucks)
subreddit helps you find links you want
in those links you find information
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that is what a manual crawl feels like, and how many people use the web.
Thanks for checking out my site. If you have any questions or have any trouble please let me know at help@solveforall.com. And maybe we can explore brainstorming/collaborating since you've clearly put a lot of thought into search.