<![CDATA["One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.]]>"One guy in built a to fight Google, and it works.

It's called .

It runs its own and builds its own 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 now shows you the same twelve ."

https://marginalia-search.com/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/3fed695e-6d3e-4de0-86c0-c32ca1f04313/one-guy-in-sweden-built-a-searchengine-to-fight-google-and-it-works.RSS for NodeSun, 13 Sep 2026 06:11:28 GMTTue, 08 Sep 2026 10:17:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:34:11 GMT]]>@iain
that funds an arm of the kremlin
@gimulnautti @eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pnw.zone/users/mancube/statuses/117244169546186315https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pnw.zone/users/mancube/statuses/117244169546186315Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:34:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:24:02 GMT]]>@eliasulrich can confirm that it works. entered some obscure search terms and got sites i'd never seen before with information i didn't know!!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/117244129575097500https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/fishidwardrobe/statuses/117244129575097500Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:24:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:00:19 GMT]]>@eliasulrich oh wow i just found some real old blog posts I did, amazing 😆

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Meznor/statuses/117244036382361839https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Meznor/statuses/117244036382361839Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:00:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:13:07 GMT]]>@badrihippo @dheadshot @Devonkiwi @eliasulrich
Or death metal song:
"Fedi. Hug off. Deeeeaaaath!!!" 🎸🎶🥁☠️

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.nl/users/amro/statuses/117242907010912799https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://todon.nl/users/amro/statuses/117242907010912799Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:13:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:22:16 GMT]]>own index over reranked Bing is the part worth checking empirically, most self hosted engines that claim independence turn out to just filter the same crawl. has anyone logged the explore mode over a week to see if the corpus actually rotates or if its the same non commercial pages resurfacing

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116696538002197507/statuses/117241527455006395https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116696538002197507/statuses/117241527455006395Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:22:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:37:19 GMT]]>@mansr @msbellows @TjenWellens @woe2you @daveybot @eliasulrich

Wow, dead, harsh.

https://blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/09/the-ais-know-about-mike-riversdale.html

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/miramarmike/statuses/117240878846718964https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/miramarmike/statuses/117240878846718964Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:37:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:50:47 GMT]]>@eliasulrich
So cool!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/ctenidium/statuses/117240695816247436https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/ctenidium/statuses/117240695816247436Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:50:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:38:33 GMT]]>@eliasulrich Interesting but the weighting of the search results might need some work still. E.g. if I search for “CSS margin-left” I get an ancient niche Stack Overflow question with merely three upvotes, I get some tutorials, jQuery and Typo3 bug reports, a CSS test from 2002, web platform documentation discontinued a decade ago etc. W3C finally comes up in position 17 but it isn’t really the relevant standard. MDN doesn’t come up in the first ten pages. I have to add “MDN” to the search query explicitly, and then it’s still the third result.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/WPalant/statuses/117240647718229710https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/WPalant/statuses/117240647718229710Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:38:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:30:14 GMT]]>@eliasulrich@hachyderm.io I've discovered so much cool stuff like this since joining the Fediverse, this is amazing! Feels like I time traveled back to the late 90s/early 2000s before the internet went ga-ga for monetization

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://calckey.world/notes/aqxiucietahttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://calckey.world/notes/aqxiucietaWed, 09 Sep 2026 10:30:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:19:54 GMT]]>@mansr @msbellows @TjenWellens @miramarmike @daveybot @eliasulrich Congrats on your resurrection.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117240574380638696https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/woe2you/statuses/117240574380638696Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:19:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:19:05 GMT]]>@msbellows @TjenWellens @woe2you @miramarmike @daveybot @eliasulrich Lucky you. ChatGPT told me which year I had died.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://society.oftrolls.com/users/mansr/statuses/117240571195437846https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://society.oftrolls.com/users/mansr/statuses/117240571195437846Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:19:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:44:47 GMT]]>@dheadshot not in this case; I mean it might have contributed but the anti-bot measures have been up for a while

On a different note, we do need a "fedi hug of death" emoji!

@Devonkiwi @eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/badrihippo/statuses/117240200417179049https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/badrihippo/statuses/117240200417179049Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:44:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:17:53 GMT]]>@eliasulrich@hachyderm.io I'm a bit confused, the webpage, says "Simple technology, no AI", but the code has references to ollama, and huggingface (that a quick look). Do you know anything about what's going on there?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.openpsychology.net/notes/aqxe45ar2ap803o9https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.openpsychology.net/notes/aqxe45ar2ap803o9Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:17:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:00:23 GMT]]>@eliasulrich owner of this is borderline for weird little guy status fyi

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.freebitcoin.gay/users/drew/statuses/01M22JXARR4CHJ8HC7N57V0Q4Phttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.freebitcoin.gay/users/drew/statuses/01M22JXARR4CHJ8HC7N57V0Q4PWed, 09 Sep 2026 08:00:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:59:07 GMT]]>@darwinwoodka
The Internet never forgets.
@allpurposemat @eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240020803615343https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240020803615343Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:59:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:56:34 GMT]]>@leadinglines
I guess @marginalia should rename it to RHG, for rabbit hole generator.
@eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240010808070938https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240010808070938Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:56:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:53:59 GMT]]>@jaypeach53
The focus seems to be on that type of content, so unsurprising? And a good indicator.
@eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240000652855748https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117240000652855748Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:53:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:51:22 GMT]]>@marginalia
So like ?
@joepie91 @miramarmike @eliasulrich

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117239990363124380https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/0x0/statuses/117239990363124380Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:51:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:11:36 GMT]]>@stepheneb @eliasulrich my name, Paul Masson, is always swamped by the cheap brandy company. Still is in this search engine, so not impressed.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/paulmasson/statuses/117239833988073760https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/paulmasson/statuses/117239833988073760Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:11:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:08:59 GMT]]>@eliasulrich Heh, went to the "explore" page, and @glasnt was the first in the list!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/Firesphere/statuses/117239823707004678https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/Firesphere/statuses/117239823707004678Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:08:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:04:51 GMT]]>@eliasulrich great idea but not there yet

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/paulmasson/statuses/117239807439662216https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/paulmasson/statuses/117239807439662216Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:04:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:32:29 GMT]]>@eliasulrich

I tried it out with the title of one of my books "enchanted grove" and it came up with this -- not bad:

https://www.meetnewbooks.com/new-exciting-book/1232

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/hayesstw/statuses/117239444270210723https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://c.im/users/hayesstw/statuses/117239444270210723Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:32:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:01:03 GMT]]>@wraptile >posting this on “Mastodon”

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/slyborg/statuses/117239320648626854https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/slyborg/statuses/117239320648626854Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:01:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works. on Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:26:35 GMT]]>@eliasulrich I used to try to do that thing where you put two words into Google trying to get zero results. Managed it one time! This makes me nostalgic for those times

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.art/users/inarticulatequilter/statuses/117239185135176735https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.art/users/inarticulatequilter/statuses/117239185135176735Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:26:35 GMT