Khmer Web Search: topics, source pages, and a more useful discovery layer
The search bar is still the center. The product around it is starting to become a map of the Khmer web.
SearchDiscoveryTopicsProduct UX
Primary project
KhmerWebSearch
A search product for Khmer web content, built as an end-to-end exploration across crawling, indexing, ranking, product UX, deployment, and operations.
Why it exists
Useful Khmer and Cambodia-relevant information exists online, but discovery is weaker than it should be. The project explores what happens when the local web is treated as a real corpus instead of a pile of scattered pages.
Status
Active
Still early. The product is live, the system is real, and the hard work is improving quality, coverage, relevance, and trust one layer at a time.
What it does
Crawls sources, prepares documents, indexes content, serves search, supports discovery surfaces, and keeps tightening the loop between source quality and result quality.
What I’m exploring
Ranking behavior, source navigation, topic-aware search, freshness, structured discovery, and the product judgment needed to make search feel less accidental.
Related writing
Build notes
Khmer Web Search: homepage discovery and publisher routing
Shipping the infrastructure for utility cards, trending searches, and source-specific indexing.
SearchDiscoverySource PagesMetrics
KhmerWebSearch.com: April product and search relevance progress
The search engine stack is live. Now the focus is on refining result quality to make it a reliable, trustworthy tool for Khmer users.
Search RelevanceProduct EngineeringRankingEvaluation
Building Khrawler: the crawler for KhmerWebSearch.com
A reliable Khmer search engine needs a dedicated crawler. Here is how I built the acquisition layer for khmerwebsearch.com.
CrawlingSearchData PipelineKhrawler
The origin of KhmerWebSearch.com
I started this project to fix broken Khmer discovery. Here is why the Khmer language web needs its own dedicated search engine infrastructure.
SearchKhmer WebDiscoveryInfrastructure