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Wiby

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In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
10likes
2comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

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

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Recent activities

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    POX added Wiby as alternative to Lantern - Floating Web Search
    20 days ago
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    POX added Wiby as alternative to Murena Find
    25 days ago
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    Danilo_Venom added Wiby as alternative to Peekr
    2 months ago
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    POX added Wiby as alternative to Waterfox Private Search
    3 months ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added Wiby as alternative to Freespoke
    4 months ago
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    K0RR added Wiby as alternative to Araa
    4 months ago
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    bobbyhiltz added Wiby as alternative to Clew Search
    5 months ago
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    refoorest added Wiby as alternative to refoorest
    6 months ago
  • not_cool added No Logs as a feature to Wiby
    8 months ago
  • not_cool reviewed Wiby  
    8 months ago

    I'm glad I found this little gem. It has a nostalgic aesthetic and reminds me of the early internet era. You will discover rare sites and historically forgotten pages. Definitely not a daily driver, but an interesting project for sure.

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Wiby information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    65 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Online Services

GitHub repository

  •  386 Stars
  •  12 Forks
  •  0 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 19, 2024 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Wiby, and it has gotten 10 likes

Wiby was added to AlternativeTo by Ja H on Jan 5, 2021 and this page was last updated May 28, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Ituaf
Aug 6, 2023
2

Extremely interesting project. I love the index of small and obscure sites it has. I truly believe it to be one of the best ways to surf the web if you're bored, of course, seeing as it doesn't work great for standard every-day searches. Something you could certainly find yourself going through for hours.

Ryan Fader
Nov 28, 2024
0

I'm glad I found this little gem. It has a nostalgic aesthetic and reminds me of the early internet era. You will discover rare sites and historically forgotten pages. Definitely not a daily driver, but an interesting project for sure.

What is Wiby?

In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.

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