Draft:Marginalia (search engine)

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Marginalia
Type of site
Search engine
Available inEnglish
Created byViktor Lofgren[1]
URLsearch.marginalia.nu
LaunchedMay 19, 2022; 23 months ago (2022-05-19)[2]
Current statusOnline
Content license
AGPL-3.0 or later[3]
Written inJava programming language

Marginalia is a free, open-source search engine based in Sweden.[4] The search results provided by Marginalia come from its own index of web pages, created by crawling the web.

History edit

Starting mid-2023,[5] Kagi Search lists Marginalia as one of the sources for its results.[6]

Key features edit

Marginalia is a crawler-based search engine that provides independent search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines. Marginalia also displays significantly more individual entries in its search results than Google or Bing, and does not prioritize any particular websites, being fully dependent on the keywords. Marginalia also has keyword syntax, allowing you to have granular control of how you want the results.[7]

Etymology edit

It is believed that the name Marginalia comes from the fact that the search engine shows even the marginally existent websites, that practically don't show in other search engines.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ https://www.marginalia.nu
  2. ^ "first commit". GitHub. May 19, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  3. ^ "LICENSE.md - github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch". GitHub. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  4. ^ Viktor Lofgren's Twitter
  5. ^ "re enrich docs · kagisearch/kagi-docs@86fbecf". GitHub. 2023-07-26.
  6. ^ "Search Sources". Kagi's Docs. Archived from the original on 2023-11-05. Retrieved 2023-11-05. Our data includes anonymized API calls to traditional search indexes like Google, Mojeek and Yandex, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information like Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, and other APIs. Typically every search query on Kagi will call a number of different sources at the same time
  7. ^ "Marginalia's syntax". Marginalia. Retrieved December 4, 2023.

External links edit

Category:Swedish websites Category:Internet search engines