There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Any “small-web” search engines?

I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

fruity ,

wiby.me

zutto ,
@zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi avatar

Teclis - Includes search results from Marginalia, free to use at the moment. This search index has been in the past closed down due to abuse.

Kagi, whose creation Teclis is, is a paid search engine (metasearch engine to be more precise) also incorporates these search results in their normal searches. I warmly recommend giving Kagi a try, it’s great, I’ve been enjoying it a lot.

–

Other options I can recommend; You could always try to host your own search engine if you have list of small-web sites in mind or don’t mind spending some effort collecting such list. I personally host Yacy [github link] (and Searxng to interface with yacy and several other self-hosted indexes/search engines such as kiwix wiki’s.). Indexing and crawling your own search results surprisingly is not resource heavy at all, and can be run on your personal machine in the background.

troed ,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

Not just a meta search engine though - they do have their own index as well.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

zutto ,
@zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi avatar

Yes, I mentioned Kagi because of the Teclis search index is hosted by them.

However, most of the search results in Kagi are aggregated from dedicated search engines. (such as, but not limited to: Yandex, Brave, Google, Bing, etc.)

phanto ,

I tried running yacy for a while but it just ran for a bit less than a day then ran out of memory and crashed, over and over. Tried to figure out the problem, but it’s niche enough that I couldn’t get anywhere googling the issue.

zutto ,
@zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi avatar

This is a bit off-topic, but did you try to increase the JVM limits inside Yacy’s administration panel?

Spoilering to hide wall of text related to this topic.This setting located in /Performance_p.html-page for example gives the java runtime more memory. Same page also has other settings related to ram, such as setting how much memory Yacy must leave unused for the system. (These settings exist so people who run Yacy on their personal machines can have guaranteed resources for more important stuff) https://lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi/pictrs/image/dee08741-d832-4545-b4bd-ab36a550be4a.pngOther things that would reduce memory usage is to limit the concurrency of the crawler for example. There’s quite a lot of tunable settings that can affect memory usage. Would recommend trying to hit up one of the Yacy forums is also good place to ask questions. The Matrix channel (and IRC) are a bit dead, but there are couple of people including myself there! Also, theres new docs written by the community, they might help as well! yacy.net/docs/ yacy.net/operation/performance/

troed ,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

You're looking for Kagi.com

Not only does it give better search results quality wise on "the big web" - you can select to search specific parts, like blogs.

Best part - it's completely ad and spam free. You pay for it with actual money instead of with your data.

Asudox ,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

Why not run an SearXNG instance and help everyone instead? Y’know, Kagi is pretty expensive and they are also getting into AI shit.

troed ,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

I'm hoping just as Proton do good free stuff using money I pay them (Visionary account) Kagi does/will do the same. The Internet as a whole needs to stop being ad-supported.

Asudox ,
@Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

I refuse to believe Proton when they do advertisements lol. They also are being pretty suspicious with ignoring XMR support since years of people requesting it. If they ever even considered it a bit, their new shit Proton Wallet wouldn’t allow you to store (or only store) bitcoin, which we all know has nothing that protects your privacy.

LambdaRX ,
@LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works avatar

Maybe try Mojeek, it uses completely independent indexing system.

noodlejetski ,

www.marginalia.nu

neidu2 ,

I’m intrigued. The search results are more akin to how they used to be 25 years ago on the internet that I loved
Search.marginalia.nu is dinitely something I’ll be exploring going forward!

dch82 OP ,

That is exactly what I needed; the subdomains are now in my bookmarks.

ggtdbz ,

Replying under the top comment but this really applies to all of these, how do these search engines determine what counts as a personal site? For example I had procrastinated for years on finally spinning up a static, barren HTML blog. The infamous Lucidity AI post introduced me to Mataroa and I got over the hump and started writing. Would that get indexed? Etc

Does it just crawl through webrings?

oploskoffie ,

I believe you have to submit your own website to this one for manual addition to its index

mortimer ,
@mortimer@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t know if this fits your criteria, but I’ve been using Gruble a lot recently. You can personalise the look and language in the settings, plus it’s open source.

hendrik ,

For info: That's (just) a SearXNG instance. That's a metasearch engine, getting results from Google etc and proxying and aggregating them for you.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •