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Any “small-web” search engines? (self.technology)

submitted 2 months ago by dch82 to c/[email protected]

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I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://www.marginalia.nu/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm intrigued. The search results are more akin to how they used to be 25 years ago on the internet that I loved
Https://Search.marginalia.nu is definitely something I'll be exploring going forward!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I searched for Dance Dance Revolution and ended up here.

The absolute nostalgia of it all. Love it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Replying under the top comment but this really applies to all of these, how do these search engines determine what counts as a personal site? For example I had procrastinated for years on finally spinning up a static, barren HTML blog. The infamous Lucidity AI post introduced me to Mataroa and I got over the hump and started writing. Would that get indexed? Etc

Does it just crawl through webrings?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I believe you have to submit your own website to this one for manual addition to its index

[–] dch82 6 points 2 months ago

That is exactly what I needed; the subdomains are now in my bookmarks.