I use Duckduckgo, but I realised these big(ish) search engines give me all the commercialised results. Duckduckgo has been going down the slope for years, but not at such a rate as Google or Bing has.

I want to have a search engine that gives me all the small blogs and personal sites.

Does something like this exist?

    • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      I’m intrigued. The search results are more akin to how they used to be 25 years ago on the internet that I loved
      Https://Search.marginalia.nu is definitely something I’ll be exploring going forward!

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Replying under the top comment but this really applies to all of these, how do these search engines determine what counts as a personal site? For example I had procrastinated for years on finally spinning up a static, barren HTML blog. The infamous Lucidity AI post introduced me to Mataroa and I got over the hump and started writing. Would that get indexed? Etc

      Does it just crawl through webrings?

      • oploskoffie@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        I believe you have to submit your own website to this one for manual addition to its index

    • dch82OPEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      That is exactly what I needed; the subdomains are now in my bookmarks.