Marginalia (search engine)

Marginalia
	Marginalia Search results for "web search engine" in English Wikipedia
Website type	Web Search Engine
Available in	English
Owner	Viktor Löfgren
Creator	Viktor Löfgren
Founder	Viktor Löfgren
Website	marginalia-search.com
IPv6 support	Yes
Advertising	None
Commercial	No
Registration	None
Launched	2021
Current status	Online
Written in	Java; C++; Python;

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Marginalia is an indie search engine that prioritizes text-heavy non-commercial websites. It was created by Swedish software engineer Viktor Löfgren and began its development in 2021 as a project to pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Löfgren hopes it will help people explore interesting parts of the internet that are off the beaten path. Löfgren says it takes him about an hour a week to maintain, and runs it on his own, low-powered hardware.

Marginalia has its own web crawler and builds its own index instead of reusing the index of a larger search engine like Google or Bing. Unlike other search engines that use more advanced techniques for queries, it is a keyword-based search engine.

Marginalia is open source under the AGPL 3 license, and can be self-hosted.