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Marginalia Search

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Country of Origin

  • SE flagSweden
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (6)
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4comments
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  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No registration required
  4.  No Coding Required

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  • Developed by

    SE flagmarginalia.nu
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Marginalia Search, and it has gotten 13 likes

Marginalia Search was added to AlternativeTo by Maxim Kamalov on Sep 20, 2021 and this page was last updated Mar 3, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
N.A. Ferrell
Oct 20, 2022
1

A very fun (and now open source) small web search engine. Marginalia uses its own crawler to find interesting websites, with an emphasis on older content and independent blogs. It is a great way to find websites and posts that do not readily turn up on general-use search engines.

Navi
Mar 4, 2025
0

Useful for finding indie sites and sites that don't rely on heavy resources. Down side is it lacks contextualized searching ability so you have to use more key word based searching methods. One of my favorite features is "explore" which gives you preview images of random sites from their index.

João Lourenço
Jul 18, 2024
0

Quirky retro alternative

onsoc
Mar 10, 2022
1

Its fun and you find weird and interesting things. Also a cool tool for researching a topic.

What is Marginalia Search?

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. Where this search engine really shines is finding small, old and obscure websites about some given topic.

The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. The project is open source.

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