mwmbl/mwmbl
An open source, non-profit web search engine observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1711
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1844 stars · 93 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Mwmbl is an open source, non-profit web search engine with no ads or tracking, where the community determines rankings and runs distributed crawling. It offers a hosted search at mwmbl.org plus a command-line crawler and Firefox extension for contributing to the index.
Use cases
- search the web without ads or tracking
- self-host an open source search engine
- contribute spare bandwidth to a community web crawler
- find a privacy-respecting alternative to Google or Bing
- curate community-ranked search results
- run a non-profit search engine project
When to choose
- you want a transparent, ad-free, community-governed search engine
- you want to contribute compute or curation to an open search index
- you prefer non-profit alternatives to commercial search engines
When to avoid
- you need comprehensive, Google-scale index coverage
- you need commercial-grade relevance ranking or enterprise search features
- you want a fully decentralized/federated architecture (the index is centralized)
Facets
service · maturity active
search-engine web-scraping cli self-hosted privacy web-development python browser-extension self-hosted non-profit community-driven open-source-search no-tracking distributed-crawling alternative-search-engine search web-server docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5078fb62d589
- homepage: https://mwmbl.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 94bcf0bc9bb6
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| mwmbl/mwmbl | main | 77 |
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