I had a friend on here @kaptainkrayola who had a nice and effective search engine running for steemit called steemshovel.com until Feb 1st, 2017. He ended it up shutting it down for exactly the reason you indicated. No funding, and he was actually losing money by running it.
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Yeah, I looked into SteemShovel before launching AskSteem. Technically in the backend both search engines use ElasticSearch for indexing the blockchain, and think SteemShovel may have also been hosted on AWS. Hopefully, my goal of funding the search engine through upvotes will work out, otherwise, there are some other ideas I have for getting funding.
Yeah my friend didn't post here enough or he likely could have funded it. He is a developer, but didn't really want to blog.
Funny enough it was him talking to me about Eth mining that caused me to stumble on steemit, before him. He was kicking himself and wondering how he missed it.