Wiby

   Wiby is a [1]minimalist non-corporate [2]web [3]search engine for
   old-style non-[4]bloated (web 1.0, "[5]smol web") websites with its custom
   [6]index. Searching on wiby will yield small, simple websites, mostly
   non-interactive, static [7]HTML personal/hobby sites, small community
   sites and obscure weird sites -- this kind of searching is not only
   [8]fun, adventurous and nostalgic [9]90s like experience, but it actually
   leads to finding useful information which on corporate search engines like
   [10]Google or [11]Bing get buried under billions of useless noise sites
   and links to "content platforms" like [12]YouTube and [13]reddit. As of
   writing this wiby also contains a high portion of plain http links,
   shitting of [14]privacy/[15]security https hysteria in favor of
   simplicity, and unlike Marginalia it isn't a blatant circlejerk of
   snowflake SJW furry lesbian sites -- this is to be applauded. At this
   moment we highly recommend searching on wiby.

   Wiby's relative success (and success of similar engines and smaller sites
   in general) can possibly be attributed to increasing shittiness of
   [16]Google and other mainstream engines which more and more suffer by the
   capitalist [17]SEO disaster. Wiby may be one of the first indicators of
   the days of Google's search monopoly finally coming to an end.

   It can be accessed at https://wiby.me and https://wiby.org (there is a low
   res picture of a lighthouse of Cape Spear on the frontpage for some
   reason, in the past there used to be [18]ASCII art of lighthouse with
   initials jgs, probably standing for Joan G. Stark). Of course, no
   [19]JavaScript is needed! Clicking "surprise me" on wiby is an especially
   entertaining activity, you never know what comes at you. A site dedicated
   to identifying historical bottles? Ice chewers forum? A list of longest
   domain names? Yes, this is the kind of stuff you'll get, and more.

   The engine doesn't automatically crawl the whole web, it instead works by
   users submitting links, the admin approving them and a bot potentially
   crawling these sites to a small depth. Be sure to contribute quality links
   to improve the database!

   Wiby appears to have been launched in October 2017 and built by a sole
   programmer who remains anonymous and accepts donations.

   On July 8, 2022 wiby became even more amazing by being released as
   [20]free (as in freedom) software under [21]GPLv2
   (https://github.com/wibyweb/wiby/)! It works on the [22]LEMP stack. See
   http://wiby.me/about/guide.html. (The database/index of sites though seems
   to remain non-shared and [23]proprietary.)

   A similar search engine seems to be https://search.marginalia.nu/. Unlike
   marginalia wiby however seems much better because (at least as of writing
   this) it doesn't force push [24]soynet gay websites.

Links:
1. minimalism.md
2. www.md
3. search_engine.md
4. bloat.md
5. smol_internet.md
6. index.md
7. html.md
8. fun.md
9. 90s.md
10. google.md
11. bing.md
12. youtube.md
13. reddit.md
14. privacy.md
15. security.md
16. google.md
17. seo.md
18. ascii_art.md
19. js.md
20. free_software.md
21. gpl.md
22. lemp.md
23. proprietary.md
24. soynet.md