Marginalia Search
Independent search engine focused on the non-commercial web
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.
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 (1.9k GitHub stars)
- Written in Java
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