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Any “small-web” search engines? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 months ago

Try this engine

https://search.marginalia.nu/

Or a SearXNG instance

https://search.disroot.org/search

You may also be interested in the Indie Web movement. This site is a great resource for it, with yet more links to indie sites and blogs.

Finally, not quite what you asked but here's a freebie, in case you didn't know about it:

https://wiby.me/

It's an old web search engine. It only indexes pages from the 00s and earlier.

[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aside from SearXNG, I didn't know about these search engines until your recommendation. Thanks to Wiby and Marginalia, I found old rich content (old BBS list conversations, for example) that I was looking for, regarding studies on the occult and esotericism. Thank you so much!

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