"One guy in
#Sweden built a
#searchengine to fight Google, and it works.
It's called
#MarginaliaSearch.
It runs its own
#crawler and builds its own
#index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.
What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.
The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.
There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.
It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every
#searchengine now shows you the same twelve
#monetizedpages."
https://marginalia-search.com/
