Mwmbl - Search
mwmbl.org
The free, open-source and non-profit search engine.

Mwmbl is a community-built, non-profit search engine that puts privacy and user control first. It offers a truly different search experience—one where the results are shaped not by corporate interests but by real people.

Key Features:

  • Ad-Free & Privacy-Respecting: No ads, no tracking, and no commercial interests—just a search engine built with the users in mind.

  • User-Curated Results: Instead of relying on algorithms, search results are refined and tuned by the community.

  • Community-Driven Crawling: The engine relies on volunteer-run crawlers. Although the index currently holds around 500 million unique URLs, there’s massive potential.

  • Ambitious Growth Goals: mwmbl plans to reach 10 billion unique URLs by the end of 2025 and 100 billion by 2026, at which point it should be a true alternative to commercial search engines.

  • Open-Source: The project is fully open-source, meaning you can contribute to the code and help resolve issues to push the project forward.

How to Get Involved:

Right now, the search quality is pretty rough, but that’s where you can make an impact:

  • Contribute to the Index:

    • Install the Firefox Extension: Once installed, it crawls the web on your behalf.

    • Run the CLI Script: An even better option would be to use your spare computing power by running the command line crawler.

  • Join the Community: The main community is on Matrix for non-development related discussions.

  • Code Contributions: Check out the project on Codeberg. You can contribute code, report issues, or suggest new features to help make the search results better.

  • Financial Contributions: Donate some money towards hosting costs and supporting volunteers.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 day ago

    Seems to mostly return Wikipedia results for the first few results for a few terms I tried, even where it has more directly relevant results afterwards.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 day ago

        I can’t really see any cards. Also, it has a lot of random Wikipedia results before the actual websites and even then the top results aren’t great.

        • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Must be an Android thing, then. They’ll probably implement it on desktop in the future.

          Also, like I said, the search quality is pretty rough; that’s why we need more people to run the crawler extension and/or script. You can also suggest improvements on the Matrix server. Currently, it could use a lot of work.

          Ultimately, I believe in the core principle. It’s not great right now, but even Wikipedia started out like that. I remember back when Wikipedia was a barebones site lacking content, with a few dedicated editors. Now, however, it is essentially the knowledgebase of humanity.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 day ago

    It says you can help “curate” results when you create an account but I just created an account and I don’t see any options?

    Edit: you have to use the old frontend, not the new sleek one.

    • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      You can verify links by clicking on the gray checkmark to make them green. Similarly, you can unverify links by clicking on the green checkmark.

      You can also add new links by clicking on the “+ Add New” button.

      The curation is currently not in its final form and the creator admits that they’re replanning it. If you have any ideas, or just want to see it develop, join the Matrix room!

      Edit: seems like you figured it out while I was writing the response, lmao.