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SEARCH THE INTERNET




PUBLICITY, DISCUSSION AND EVENTS

Marginalia: A New Lens for the Internet 2024-04-03 Perephoneia Folk Search
Engines 2024-02-20 Escape The Algorithm How bad are search results? Let's
compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT 2023-12-31 Dan Luu
Interview with Viktor Löfgren from Marginalia.nu 2023-12-30 YouTube, Rickard
Andersson FreeWebSearchDay Interview 2023-09-29 NLnet Marginalia Search receives
FUTO Grant 2023-09-15 Marginalia [...] is currently on the HN front page and
handling the traffic with one $5k commodity server 2023-04-19 🦤 Twitter
@vboykis Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content
2023-04-18 Hacker News Marginalia Receives NLnet grant 2023-02-26 Marginalia's
Index Reaches 100,000,000 Documents 🎊 2022-10-21 Google ei enää tideä
2022-10-19 Helsing Sanomat 🇫🇮 Kritik an Googles Suche - Platzhirsch auf dem
Nebenschauplatz 2022-08-18 Deutschlandfunk Kultur 🇩🇪 Marginalia Goes Open
Source 2022-05-28 Hacker News You Should Check Out the Indie Web 🎞️ 2022-03-15
YouTube, You've Got Kat What Google Search Isn't Showing You 2022-03-10 The New
Yorker 🎩 Marginalia Search - Serendipity Engineering 2022-03-09 MetaFilter 🎂
First anniversary! 🎊 2022-02-26 A search engine that favors text-heavy sites
and punishes modern web design 2021-09-16 Hacker News A Search Engine Designed
To Surprise You 2021-09-16 Clive Thompson OneZero
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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 search engine is currently serving about 64 queries/minute.

Consider supporting the project!

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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.


SYNTAX

This is a keyword-based search engine. When entering multiple search terms, the
search engine will attempt to match them against documents where the terms occur
in close proximity.

Search terms can be excluded with a hyphen.

While the search engine at present does not allow full text search, quotes can
be used to specifically search for names or terms in the title. Using quotes
will also cause the search engine to be as literal as possible in interpreting
the query.

Parentheses can be used to add terms to the query without giving weight to the
terms when ranking the search results.




SAMPLES

soup -chicken Look for keywords that contain soup, but not chicken. "keyboard"
Look for pages containing the exact word keyboard, not keyboards or the like.
"steve mcqueen" Look for pages containing the exact words steve mcqueen in that
order, with no words in between. apology (plato) Look for pages containing
apology and plato, but only rank them based on their relevance to apology


SPECIAL KEYWORDS

Several special keywords are supported by the search engine.



KeywordMeaning site:example.comDisplay site information about example.com
site:example.com keywordSearch example.com for keyword browse:example.comShow
similar websites to example.com ip:127.0.0.1Search documents hosted at 127.0.0.1
links:example.comSearch documents linking to example.com tld:edu keywordSearch
documents with the top level domain edu. ?tld:edu keywordPrefer but do not
require results with the top level domain edu. This syntax is also possible for
links:..., ip:... and site:... q>5The amount of javascript and modern features
is at least 5 (on a scale 0 to 25) q<5The amount of javascript and modern
features is at most 5 (on a scale 0 to 25) year>2005(beta) The document was
ostensibly published in or after 2005 year=2005(beta) The document was
ostensibly published in 2005 year<2005(beta) The document was ostensibly
published in or before 2005 rank>50The ranking of the website is at least 50 in
a span of 1 - 255 rank<50The ranking of the website is at most 50 in a span of 1
- 255 count>10 The search term must appear in at least 10 results form the
domain count<10 The search term must appear in at most 10 results from the
domain format:html5Filter documents using the HTML5 standard. This is typically
modern websites. format:xhtmlFilter documents using the XHTML standard
format:html123Filter documents using the HTML standards 1, 2, and 3. This is
typically very old websites. generator:wordpressFilter documents with the
specified generator, in this case wordpress file:zipFilter documents containing
a link to a zip file (most file-endings work) file:audioFilter documents
containing a link to an audio file file:videoFilter documents containing a link
to a video file file:archiveFilter documents containing a link to a compressed
archive file:documentFilter documents containing a link to a document
-special:mediaFilter out documents with audio or video tags
-special:scriptsFilter out documents with javascript -special:affiliateFilter
out documents with likely Amazon affiliate links -special:trackingFilter out
documents with analytics or tracking code -special:cookiesFilter out documents
with cookies


RESULTS LEGEND

The estimated relevance of the search result is indicated using the color
saturation of the color of the search result, as well as the order the results
are presented.

Information about the position of the match is indicated using a dot matrix in
the bottom bar of each search result. Each dot represents four sentences, and
are presented in an order of top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

⣿⠃⠀⠀   — The terms occur heavily toward the beginning of the document.

⠠⠀⡄⠁   — The terms occur sparsely throughout the document.

⠀⠁⠀⠀   — The terms occur only in a single sentence.

Potentially problems with the document are presented with a warning triangle,
e.g. ⚠ 3. Desktop users can mouse-over this to get a detailed breakdown.


POLICIES

This website complies with the GDPR by not collecting any personal information,
and with the EU Cookie Directive by not using cookies. More Information.


CONTACT

Reach me at kontakt@marginalia.nu, @MarginaliaNu on twitter.


OPEN SOURCE

The search engine is open source with an AGPL license. The sources can be
perused at https://git.marginalia.nu/.


DATA SOURCES

IP geolocation is sourced from the IP2Location LITE data available from
https://lite.ip2location.com/ under CC-BY-SA 4.0.