Hello and welcome. I’m James, the head admin and creator of Guno. I’m also a software engineer who happens to be neurodivergent, which means my brain is very good at two things: building systems and obsessing over what the internet used to be before algorithms swallowed it whole.

I still stumble across static HTML sites built today and others that haven’t been touched since 1999. I like to assume some of them were taken out by Y2K and heroically never recovered. While there are search engines out there for static sites, I felt the community could use another one. One that actually understands the spirit of the early web instead of trying to optimize it to death.

I’d been sitting on the guno.cc domain for a long time, waiting for the right idea. A few months ago it finally clicked. Build a simple static site search engine intentionally designed around the feel and simplicity of very early Google, before rankings, signals, engagement metrics, and other algorithmic nonsense took over.

I haven’t locked in a logo yet, and yes, I’m absolutely open to submissions or ideas. If you’ve got a concept or want to take a stab at it, I’m all ears.

The software engineer side of my brain constantly wants to add more features to Guno. The other side of my brain, the one that actually likes the web, keeps reminding me to stop. The goal is to keep Guno simple, human, and true to Web 1.0. And for the record, Guno will never become an algorithmic disaster. Algorithms, in my opinion, are a disease of the modern web. Sometimes useful, often destructive, and rarely necessary here.

Anyway, that’s enough from me.
Invite anyone you know who would love Guno, the static web, or the internet the way it used to be.