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=> https://kozmonavt.ml/ Kozmonavt
=> http://www.search.tl search.tl
=> https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch21/ Thunderstone
=> https://search.thunderstone.com/ Thunderstone
=> https://www.sengine.info/ sengine.info
=> https://www.gnomit.com/ Gnomit
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* Keybot: A must-have for anyone who does translation work. It crawls the web looking for multilingual websites. Translators who are unsure about how to translate a given word or phrase can see its usage in two given languages, to learn from other human translators. My parents are fluent English speakers but sometimes struggle to express a given Hindi idiom in English; something like this could be useful to them, since machine translation isn't nuanced enough for every situation. Part of the TTN Translation Network. Discovered in my access logs.
* Quor: seems to mainly index large news sites. Site is down as of June 2021. Originally available at www dot quor dot com.
* Ninfex: a "people-powered" search engine that combines aspects of link aggregators and search. It lets users vote on submissions and it also displays links to forums about submissions.
* Semantic Scholar: a search engine by the Allen Institute for AI focused on academic PDFs, with a couple hundred million papers indexed. Discovered in my access logs.
* Bonzamate: a search engine specifically for Australian websites.
* searchcode: A code-search engine by the developer of Bonzamate. Searches a hand-picked list of code forges for source code, supporting many search operators.
=> https://www.keybot.com/ Keybot Translation Search Machine.
=> https://ninfex.com Ninfex
=> https://www.semanticscholar.org/ Semantic Scholar
=> https://bonzamate.com.au/ Bonzamate
=> https://boyter.org/posts/abusing-aws-to-make-a-search-engine/ Blog post about Bonzamate: "Abuzing AWS to make a search engine".
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* wbsrch: In addition to its generalist search, it also had many other utilities related to domain name statistics. Failed multiple tests. Its index was a bit dated; it had an old backlog of sites it hadn’t finished indexing. It also had several dedicated per-language indexes.
* Gowiki: Very young, small index, but showed promise. I discovered this in the seirdy.one access logs. It was only available in the US. Seems down as of early 2022.
* Meorca: A UK-based search engine that claims not to "index pornography or illegal content websites". It also features an optional social network ("blog"). Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs.
* Ninfex: a "people-powered" search engine that combines aspects of link aggregators and search. It lets users vote on submissions and it also displays links to forums about submissions.
=> gemini://gus.guru/ gus.guru
=> https://xangis.com/the-wbsrch-experiment/ The Wbsrch Experiment
=> https://gowiki.com Gowiki
=> https://web.archive.org/web/20220429143153/https://www.meorca.com/search/ Meorca Search Engine (Wayback Machine snapshot)
=> https://web.archive.org/web/20220624172257/https://ninfex.com/ Ninfex
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- [search.tl](http://www.search.tl/): Generalist search for one <abbr title="top-level domain">TLD</abbr> at a time (defaults to .com). I'm not sure why you'd want to always limit your searches to a single TLD, but now you can.[^9] There isn't any visible UI for changing the TLD for available results; you need to add/change the `tld` URL parameter. For example, to search .org sites, append `&tld=org` to the URL. It seems to be connected to [Amidalla](http://www.amidalla.de/). Amidalla allows users to manually add URLs to its index and directory; I have yet to see if doing so impacts search.tl results.
- [Thunderstone](https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch21/): A combined website catalog and search engine that focuses on categorization. Its [about page](https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch19/about.html) claims: <q cite="https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch19/about.html">We continuously survey all primary COM, NET, and ORG web-servers and distill their contents to produce this database. This is an index of _sites_ not pages. It is very good at finding companies and organizations by purpose, product, subject matter, or location. If you're trying to finding things like _'BillyBob's personal beer can page on AOL'_, try Yahoo or Dogpile.</q> This seems to be the polar opposite of the engines in the ["small or non-commercial Web" category](#small-or-non-commercial-web).
- [Thunderstone](https://search.thunderstone.com/): A combined website catalog and search engine that focuses on categorization. Its [about page](https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch19/about.html) claims: <q cite="https://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch19/about.html">We continuously survey all primary COM, NET, and ORG web-servers and distill their contents to produce this database. This is an index of _sites_ not pages. It is very good at finding companies and organizations by purpose, product, subject matter, or location. If you're trying to finding things like _'BillyBob's personal beer can page on AOL'_, try Yahoo or Dogpile.</q> This seems to be the polar opposite of the engines in the ["small or non-commercial Web" category](#small-or-non-commercial-web).
- [sengine.info](https://www.sengine.info/): only shows domains, not individual pages. Developed by netEstate GmbH, which specializes in content extraction for inprints and job ads. Also has a German-only version available. Discovered in my access logs.
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- Quor: Seems to mainly index large news sites. Site is down as of June 2021; originally available at www dot quor dot com.
- [Ninfex](https://ninfex.com/): a "people-powered" search engine that combines aspects of link aggregators and search. It lets users vote on submissions and it also displays links to forums about submissions.
- [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/): a search engine by the Allen Institute for AI focused on academic PDFs, with a couple hundred million papers indexed. Discovered in my access logs.
- [Bonzamate](https://bonzamate.com.au/): a search engine specifically for Australian websites. Boyter wrote [an interesting blog post about Bonzamate](https://boyter.org/posts/abusing-aws-to-make-a-search-engine/).
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These engines were originally included in the article, but have since been discontinued.
- [wbsrch](https://wbsrch.com/): In addition to its generalist search, it also had many other utilities related to domain name statistics. Failed multiple tests. Its index was a bit dated; it had an old backlog of sites it hadn't finished indexing. It also had several dedicated per-language indexes.
- [wbsrch](https://xangis.com/the-wbsrch-experiment/): In addition to its generalist search, it also had many other utilities related to domain name statistics. Failed multiple tests. Its index was a bit dated; it had an old backlog of sites it hadn't finished indexing. It also had several dedicated per-language indexes.
- [Gowiki](https://web.archive.org/web/20211226043304/https://www.gowiki.com/): Very young, small index, but showed promise. I discovered this in the seirdy.one access logs. It was only available in the US. Seems down as of early 2022.
- [Meorca](https://web.archive.org/web/20220429143153/https://www.meorca.com/search/): A UK-based search engine that claims not to "index pornography or illegal content websites". It also features an optional social network ("blog"). Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs.
- [Ninfex](https://web.archive.org/web/20220624172257/https://ninfex.com/): a "people-powered" search engine that combines aspects of link aggregators and search. It lets users vote on submissions and it also displays links to forums about submissions.
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