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Any “small-web” search engines? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] zutto@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi 35 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.fedi.zutto.fi 5 points 3 months ago

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.)

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