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Marginalia Search

Independent search engine focused on the non-commercial web

Search Engines ★ 2.2k stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

Marginalia Search is an open-source independent web search engine with its own crawler and index, designed to surface text-focused, non-commercial websites. It can be self-hosted to run a private instance.

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Key features

  • Independent web crawler and index
  • Text-focused results
  • Self-hostable
  • Non-commercial bias

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Java

Is Marginalia Search secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Marginalia Search's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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