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Search that filters the Brain Rot out.
Adge is live today — a private, zero-cloud search engine with a built-in "Brainrot" filter that strips social media, engagement-bait, and unreliable crowd-sourced content out of your results by default. The site works exactly the way it will after this campaign. Help to restore reliability to the internet.
Social feeds, crowd-edited pages, and AI shortcuts are quietly rotting your brain.
Studies on social media's effect on loneliness and dating, on the reliability gaps in crowd-sourced encyclopedias, and on AI tools eroding real skill sit in open, public repositories right now. Ad-ranked search engines bury them under the very platforms and products they're studying. Adge's Brainrot filter strips that content out at the source so the research underneath can actually surface.
Networks we filter out as brain rot
Adge's Brainrot filter strips out engagement-bait and low-quality content farms so the real research underneath can surface. These are examples of the networks it targets:
- Metric Media Network
- Nextdoor Holdings (Hoodline)
- Prism News & Scholastica
- Brian Timpone / Lincoln Media Networks
- NewsBreak
- Anonymous "Chaff" Networks
The Research Vault
Three real example topics — the kind of primary-source research a paid, engagement-driven platform ranks below itself. Adge turns findings like these into a downloadable, cited PDF dossier. Try it below.
Social Media, Loneliness & the Collapse of Dating
A digest of published research linking heavy social media use to rising loneliness and a measurable decline in real-world dating and relationship formation.
Why Wikipedia Isn't as Reliable as It Looks
A look at the documented reliability gaps in crowd-sourced encyclopedias — edit wars, coordinated PR editing, and citation accuracy problems.
AI Coding Assistants and the Decline of Programmer Skill
Research suggesting heavy reliance on AI code-generation tools correlates with slower problem-solving and reduced skill retention over time.
Built with independent researchers, not engagement engineers.
Our crawler methodology is reviewed by independent data scientists and open-science advocates who care about one thing: does the result trace back to a real, citable source. No engagement algorithm, no crowd-edited middleman — just the primary literature, surfaced directly.
Backer Rewards
Every reward is a search pass that's already live on Adge today — nothing exclusive, nothing shipped, nothing promised for later.
Basic Pass
- The exact 30-day Basic search pass sold on Adge today
- 500 searches across all search modes
Pro Pass
- The exact 30-day Pro search pass sold on Adge today
- 1,500 searches across all search modes
Five Pro Passes
- Five 30-day Pro passes — keep one, gift the rest
- 7,500 searches total across all search modes
12-Month Pro Pass
- 1,500 searches every month for 12 months
- 18,000 searches total across all search modes
3-Year Pro Pass
- 1,500 searches every month for 3 years
- 54,000 searches total across all search modes
Already Using It
Already searching with Adge and just want to help fund getting the word out? Name your own amount — any support above $5 keeps the campaign going.
Why this needs to exist
Social platforms make money by maximizing time on app, not by informing you. Adge's Brainrot filter and zero-cloud search do neither of those things — search history stays on your device, and ranking is based on relevance to the primary source, not engagement. Adge already works this way today; your backing funds getting the word out to people who don't know it exists yet.
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