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Marginalia Search results for "web search engine" in English Wikipedia | |
Website type | Web Search Engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Viktor Löfgren |
| Creator | Viktor Löfgren |
| Founder | Viktor Löfgren |
| Website | marginalia-search |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Advertising | None |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | 2021 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | |
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.
Marginalia is open source under the AGPL 3 license, and can be self-hosted.
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