Marginalia (search engine)

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Marginalia is an indie search engine that prioritizes text-heavy non-commercial websites. It was created by Swedish software engineer Viktor Löfgren and began its development in 2021 as a project to pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Löfgren hopes it will help people explore interesting parts of the internet that are off the beaten path. Löfgren says it takes him about an hour a week to maintain, and runs it on his own, low-powered hardware. Marginalia has its own web crawler and builds its own index instead of reusing the index of a larger search engine like Google or Bing. Unlike other search engines that use more advanced techniques for queries, it is a keyword-based search engine. One way websites are added to the index is through community contributions to a public git repository. Marginalia is open source under the AGPL 3 license, and can be self-hosted.

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