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The Irish search engine. No ads. No trackers. No bollocks.

The internet is a kip. We tidied it up a bit!

Better searches.
Less bollocks.

Ask away. Find what you’re after. All the answers. None of the ads. No sales lad trying to flog you a pair of runners on the way there.

No ad auction No query history No messing 2005 energy
Add as your default search
01 / FIND

Search like it’s 2005

Useful links get to stay useful instead of making room for the highest bidder. Fair play.

02 / KEEP

Ask away. We’ll tell you straight.

No cookies, trackers, query history, or creepy little dossier. None of it.

03 / SKIP

Search without the bollocks.

A quiet interface that helps you search, then gets out of the way. No bother.

Why this exists?

Basically, I was searching the internet for something and getting absolutely nowhere. Page after page of ads, sponsored links and whatever else someone had paid to put in front of me — and absolutely feck all that was actually useful. And I thought to myself: "This is a pain in the bollocks." And that was pretty much the inspiration for askmebollocks.com. A search engine that tries to find you the stuff you're actually looking for, rather than filling the page with sponsored shite.

How does it work?

You type what you're looking for into our search bar. Simple enough. Behind the scenes, askmebollocks.com uses open-source search software running on our own server to fetch and filter the results — helping cut through the ads, sponsored links and other sponsored crap that gets in the way of finding what you're actually looking for. It might take a few seconds longer than the usual search engines. That's the trade-off. We'd rather take an extra second or two and give you useful results than have you spend five minutes scrolling past sponsored shite trying to find them. And the best bit? It's completely free. No subscriptions. No paywall. No sponsored results. Although if you like what we're doing and fancy buying us a pint, we definitely won't say no.

Search should be a tool,
not a sales pitch from some lad.

No cookies. No tracking. No messing. Ask My Bollocks runs on open-source software, filtering out the shite to serve you actual results and keeping the whole thing online for the price of a few pints a month.

Help keep the lights on — buy me a pint