Publicity, Discussion and Events
- Marginalia's Index Reaches 100,000,000 Documents 🎊
- 2022-10-21
- Google ei enää tideä
- Helsing Sanomat 🇫🇮 2022-10-19
- Kritik an Googles Suche - Platzhirsch auf dem Nebenschauplatz
- Deutschlandfunk Kultur 🇩🇪, 2022-08-18
- Marginalia Goes Open Source
- Hacker News, 2022-05-28
- You Should Check Out the Indie Web 🎞️
- YouTube, You've Got Kat, 2022-03-15
- What Google Search Isn't Showing You
- The New Yorker 🎩, 2022-03-10
- Marginalia Search - Serendipity Engineering
- MetaFilter, 2022-03-09
- 🎂 First anniversary! 🎊
- 2022-02-26
- A Search Engine Designed To Surprise You
- Clive Thompson OneZero, 2021-09-16
- A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
- Hacker News, 2021-09-16
- Development begins
- 2021-02-26
About
This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. The project is open source. Feel free to poke about in the source code or contribute to the development!
The entire search engine is hosted off a single PC in Sweden, albeit with pretty solid specs.
Consider supporting the project!
Tips
This search engine isn't particularly well equipped to answering queries posed like questions, instead try to imagine some text that might appear in the website you are looking for, and search for that.
Where this search engine really shines is finding small, old and obscure websites about some given topic, perhaps old video games, a mystery, theology, the occult, knitting, computer science, or art.
Updates
☛ A recipe filter has been added to the algorithm selector.
☛ The Random Mode has been overhauled, and is quite entertaining. I encourage you to give it a spin.
☛ A simple public API is now available.