Marginalia Search

[Haji 2003]

Supposed to be 'better' than the existing alternatives

https://marginalia-search.com/

This is the background on twitter:

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One guy in Sweden built a search engine to fight Google, and it works. It's called Marginalia Search. It runs its own crawler and builds its own index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans. What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages. The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out. There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy. It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every search engine now shows you the same twelve monetized pages. This one shows you the internet people actually wrote.

https://x.com/thisguyknowsai/status/2096900082490916908

I searched for Shia Islam on that search engine and got this:

 

The same search on Google (via Chrome in Incognito mode) got this: