Serca: AI-Powered Media Search Engine

"We find what the internet forgot"

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What is Serca?

Serca is an AI-assisted search engine designed to help you find media and pages that normal search can’t surface easily. It builds a database by gathering URLs and descriptions, and it supports natural-language search so you can describe what you remember instead of guessing the “perfect keywords”.

How does this service work?

We’re committed to being transparent. Serca will keep a free tier that’s useful and safe, and a paid tier with extra features and higher query limits to help cover server + database costs.

The internet has amazing content… and some content that needs stricter handling. Serca uses a flagging system to control access to sensitive content. The free tier won’t include flagged material, while paid tiers may allow access depending on policy and legality.

Important: Illegal content is not allowed. If illegal content is discovered, it will be removed and reported to the proper authorities.

Questions? Reach out via email.

Under the hood

  • Multimodal AI models (image, video, and audio—coming soon) to understand different types of media.
  • Web scraping + discovery to uncover hard-to-find pages and media across the web.
  • Edge computing to process data closer to the source and reduce unnecessary load.

Sample Queries

Here are a few examples. (See the search page for specifics.)

> people at the beach
> tv and broadcasts
> animals
			

Pricing

While the Serca-core is open source, access to the hosted database and search API can’t be completely free. We charge small fees to support servers, storage, and indexing.

Pay-as-you-use

Every new user gets a set number of free queries per month. After that, queries become paid (pricing TBD).

What’s always free

The basic keyword searching method will remain free.

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Announcements

Spanish localization
September 15, 2025 | Development Milestone
I have located someone willing to translate the website into Spanish. At some point we will try and do this for more languages.

- Abscissa

API Development
September 15, 2025 | Development Milestone
Between summer and school I haven't been able to work on this as I should be. But in that time I managed to build an AI embedding search engine that I think will work well here. As such I will be implementing it into Serca.

- Abscissa

Back end and AI updates
May 17, 2025 | Development Milestone
It has been a bit since we added anything to announcements. We've been putting a ton of work into building out the backend. The entire AI pipeline and inference has been moved off of the cloud and can now run on a M1 Mac. It's important that we can run Serca on hardware that doesn't cost $10,000. Next is building out the API and search engine.

- Abscissa

Serca launches into alpha
April 23, 2025 | Development Milestone
Today our search engine and database talked for the first time. We are now officially in the alpha phase. There is definitely a ton of room to grow. For the next weeks we will be working on the following features: * Improved AI description * AI assisted search

- Abscissa

Abscissa is currently building out this page
April 7, 2025 | Development
We are properly in the development trenches now. We will keep you posted.

- Abscissa

Page creation
April 4, 2025 | Development
This page was created

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