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A Marginalia Search
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Solo-built indie search engine for the non-commercial web. Surfaces forums, wikis, personal sites Google buried.
At a glance
- no-KYC signup
- Open-source codebase
- Non-custodial — you hold keys
- Self-hostable
Review
Independent crawler + index built by one developer. Heavily down-weights commercial junk and SEO-optimised content; favors text-heavy, low-flash sites. Best for long-tail technical reading, niche communities, personal homepages. Tiny index but unique vantage point. Open-source Java.
Fees
Free · AGPL · Java · self-hostable
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- Upstream up · HTTP 200 · 1176ms · checked 39m ago
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2026-05-13(<7d) - See curator log for Marginalia Search
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