#mwmbl — Public Fediverse posts

@BrideOfLinux
Let's start completing the list of independent search engines

#mwmbl
#yacy
#PriEco

Update: I just read a bit more about #NeoSearch. Quote "[...] using Google's search index for now.". This means it is not like the engines mentioned above.

@prieco #mwmbl has an approach, where users contribute to crawl. Would this also work for you?

@nixCraft Do you have any thoughts on both https://www.startpage.com/ and https://mwmbl.org/ ?
Start Page is being more talked about lately and mwmbl, maybe because it’s a crowd-sourced project, seems to be getting some attention.
But frankly I don’t know much about either and after the disappointment with Kagi (partnering with Brave), my will to invest time in new search engines is getting lower.

Thank you.

#search #searchengine #startpage #mwmbl #Kagi

Am interview with #Mwmbl contributor Rick Rohrig who built a native app!

https://youtu.be/WmYDucHvQIk?si=d1awzSjTNDKlgfEB

#OpenSource #SearchEngine

I've been wanting to write this for a long time on #Gaza #Palestine also re #Mwmbl #SearchEngine

https://daoudclarke.net/2025/08/02/silent-no-longer

@peersky 👉 #BraveSearch, #Stract, #Mwmbl.

A long-overdue update on the #Mwmbl #OpenSource #SearchEngine https://blog.mwmbl.org/articles/update-july-2025/

@jason123santa @cwebber I've been experimenting with #SearxNG and #Mwmbl , but inevitably end up using #DuckDuckGo when I actually want to get stuff done.

I even got a login at https://mwmbl.org/ and am running the extension in my browser to help crawl the web, but sadly, results are still not very good.

Today I was looking at the latest mwmbl source code changes. There I saw that @daoud changed pip for uv. uv is ''an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust'''.

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

Certainly sth worth to have a look at.

#mwmbl #uv #pip #python

@abucci time for web sites to bring back browser wars era badges, but instead of saying "Best viewed with Netscape Navigator" it might say "Best found with Duck Duck Go".... Oh wait, they have an AI "assist" right at the top of their page too. Hmm

"Best found with ${NON_AI_SEARCH_ENGINE}" where NON_AI_SEARCH_ENGINE is one of Start page, Searx, Qwant, Marginalia, Mwmbl...

#Googe #DuckDuckG #StartPage #Qwant #MarginaliaSearch #Mwmbl

🌐 #Mwmbl è un motore di ricerca #opensource dove la community determina il ranking.

E' un progetto giovane il cui il crawling degli URL è fatto dalla community, è possibile infatti contribuire con un estensione Firefox o tramite script
https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl?tab=readme-ov-file#crawling

https://mwmbl.org/

#privacy

@jalefkowit Mandatory shout out to #DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/ , #StartPage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History https://www.startpage.com/ , #SearX https://searx.org/ , and ... Oh oh #Mwmbl https://mwmbl.org/ is down 😯

Got a minute? #SearchClub would love to get your feedback on some potential "easy starter projects" to help reclaim search for the searcher - and any other ideas you'd like to share.

Check out the ChaosPad, and let us know what you think: https://pads.ccc.de/rNBu09Mr2M. Perhaps you'd like to get involved? Even better! :blobfoxhyper2:

#38C3 #CCC #Search #Discovery #SearchEngines #LLM #LLMs #GenAI #MushroomForaging #PizzaGlue #Mwmbl #SearXNG #Blocklists #uBlock #uBlockOrigin #uBlacklist

@uberprutser @openwebsearcheu

Maybe you want to have a look at mwmbl.org/ in the meantime

#mwmbl

I've been working on rewriting our ranking algorithm in Rust the last few days! Here's why:

https://blog.mwmbl.org/articles/reranking-on-the-client-side/

#Mwmbl #OpenSource #SearchEngine

Many thanks for presenting #Mwmbl, @daoud! I was the person asking about Mwmbl's unique indexing approach. I am excited that you pursue this. We tried something similar by cleverly indexing multi-term queries based on this paper by Ivana Podnar and others:
https://www.fer.unizg.hr/_download/repository/ICDE2007CameraReady.pdf Where can I find more on Mwmbl's approach?

Stats page on the #OpenSource #SearchEngine #Mwmbl is finally fixed. And crawling should be working again.

https://mwmbl.org/stats/

Feeling a new level of motivation after attending the excellent #OSSym24 🎉

++ Event Agenda published! ++
Four days to go till #FreeWebSearchDay is back around.

On 29 September + surrounding days we are presenting a variety of insightful events - in collaboration with various partners. Mark them in your calendars now!

Spoiler alert: There will be a #Mwmbl Curatathon, a presentation on "Search engines as a threat to the privacy of employees as well as business and trade secrets" and much much more!

All events here:
https://freewebsearch.org/en/events/
See you around!🤸‍♀️

New version of #Mwmbl #OpenSource #SearchEngine is deployed featuring English Wikipedia search incorporated into our results, as originally suggested by @seddon

Fixing mysterious cpu usage in the #Mwmbl #OpenSource #Python #SearchEngine

https://youtu.be/4FaoQhYeeDE

I've finally figured out a way to solve the ongoing issue where we had run out of URLs to crawl. Basically, we are now allowed to crawl old URLs, but we prioritise new ones. That's one way to find new URLs since pages don't always stay the same 😂

#Mwmbl #SearchEngine #OpenSource

We're now tracking how many unique URLs we have in the #Mwmbl #OpenSource #SearchEngine index!

https://mwmbl.org/stats/

Finally fixed a bug in #Mwmbl that's been annoying users for ages. This kind of bug would never happen with strong typing, but I still love you Python ❤️

https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/issues/142

#OpenSource #SearchEngine #Python

We're gradually removing our dependency on closed source software, in this case M$: #Mwmbl source code is now mirrored on #Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/mwmbl/mwmbl 🎉

Unfortunately we can't move off #GitHub just yet as we rely on it for people to find our project... but we plan to one day!

#OpenSource #SearchEngine

I finally fixed the most annoying #bug in #mwmbl I have encountered so far. We read data from a memory map and decompress it using zstd, but randomly the decompressor would crash with horrible errors.

I went down lots of rabbit holes before I actually read the decompressor docs which clearly stated that it is not safe to use a single instance from multiple threads. Which of course I was doing. 🤦‍♂️

#OpenSource