In an industry long defined by opacity, a Sydney-based search company has chosen a different posture — releasing its source code for anyone to read, challenge, or rebuild. NeoSearch's open-source move under the Apache 2.0 licence is less a product announcement than a philosophical argument: that trust in digital infrastructure should not require faith, and that the machinery shaping what we find online ought to be visible to those it serves. At a moment when regulators and users alike are questioning who controls the pathways to knowledge, NeoSearch is wagering that transparency itself can be