# mroth/unindexed

:mag_right::grey_question: website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed

Repository: https://github.com/mroth/unindexed
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/unindexed
Language: JavaScript
License: WTFPL
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-07-25T18:34:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 47/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 33, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4234, "days_push": 404, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1329, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:23.807350+00:00)

## What it is
A conceptual net-art experiment: a website that continuously searches for itself on Google and irrevocably deletes itself (including all visitor-contributed content) the moment it appears in search results. The source code is provided so others can run their own similar ephemeral experiments.

## Use cases
- run a self-destructing website experiment
- study how quickly Google indexes a new site
- create ephemeral collaborative content that vanishes when discovered
- explore privacy and search engine behavior through art
- deploy an ephemeral comment board on Heroku

## When to choose
- you want to replicate or remix the self-deleting website experiment
- you need a reference implementation for detecting your site in Google search results
- you are exploring ephemeral, privacy-focused web art projects

## When to avoid
- you need a production website or CMS with persistent content
- you want reliable search engine optimization or indexing
- you need a supported, maintained project - the experiment concluded in 2015 and the code is archival

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-server, search-engine, self-hosted
- domain: web-development, privacy, artificial-intelligence
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: net-art, ephemeral-content, search-engine-experiment, privacy-art, conceptual-project, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- mroth/unindexed (main) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.807350+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:45:41.996638+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mroth/unindexed (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:23.807350+00:00, sha 19a20ae31cdd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.