# Marginalia Search
search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

# Search the Internet

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## About

This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.

The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. The project is open source. Feel free to poke about in the source code or contribute to the development!

Consider supporting the project!

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## Tips

This search engine isn't particularly well equipped to answering queries posed like questions, instead try to imagine some text that might appear in the website you are looking for, and search for that.

Where this search engine really shines is finding small, old and obscure websites about some given topic, perhaps old video games, a mystery, theology, the occult, knitting, computer science, or art.

Additional Tips

## Updates

☛ A recipe filter has been added to the algorithm selector.

☛ The Random Mode has been overhauled, and is quite entertaining. I encourage you to give it a spin.

☛ A simple public API is now available.

Change Log

## Publicity, Discussion and Events

Kritik an Googles Suche - Platzhirsch auf dem Nebenschauplatz
  Deutschlandfunk Kultur 🇩🇪, 2022-08-18
Marginalia Goes Open Source
  Hacker News, 2022-05-28
You Should Check Out the Indie Web 🎞️
  YouTube, You've Got Kat, 2022-03-15
What Google Search Isn't Showing You
  The New Yorker 🎩, 2022-03-10
Marginalia Search - Serendipity Engineering
  MetaFilter, 2022-03-09
🎂 First anniversary! 🎊
  2022-02-26
A Search Engine Designed To Surprise You
  Clive Thompson OneZero, 2021-09-16
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
  Hacker News, 2021-09-16