MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch
Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
65/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 90
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1262
- days_rel: 688
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1923 stars · 50 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Marginalia Search is an independent, open-source internet search engine that indexes text-oriented, non-commercial, small and old websites. It includes its own crawler, indexer, and search frontend, and can be self-hosted or run as a white-label search engine over your own crawled or side-loaded data.
Use cases
- search the small, old and weird web for non-commercial content
- self-host my own internet search engine
- run a white-label search engine over my own crawled data
- discover independent blogs and RSS feeds outside big search engines
- crawl and index a custom corpus of websites
- find lost old websites that mainstream engines bury
When to choose
- you want an independent, privacy-respecting search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content
- you need a self-hostable full search stack (crawler, index, frontend) without cloud dependencies
- you want to search or index text-heavy, hobbyist, or old-web content
- you want traditional information-retrieval search rather than AI/natural-language answers
When to avoid
- you need a turnkey search widget for a small site or app docs (use lighter search libraries instead)
- you lack substantial RAM and storage; production-like deployments need ~32GB+ RAM and enterprise SSDs
- you need highly configurable ranking out of the box; configurability is still limited
- you need AI-powered or natural-language question answering
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine web-scraping nlp http-server self-hosted web-development crawlers self-hosted jvm self-hosted small-web web-crawler alt-search independent-search-engine indexer no-cloud white-label-search search natural-language-processing linux web-server
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch · fetched 2026-08-28 · 67382306879d
- homepage: https://marginalia-search.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 733594212272
- site_page: https://about.marginalia-search.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 53a632f33ebd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch | main | 65 |
For agents
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