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New engine: Alexandria.org

Gowiki is down, move it to the graveyard
Add Alexandria in its place.
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These engines pass most of the tests listed in the “methodology” section.
* Right Dao: very fast, good results. Passes the tests fairly well. It plans on including query-based ads if/when its userbase grows.⁸
* Gigablast: Its been around for a while and also sports a classic web directory. Searches are a bit slow, and it charges to submit sites for crawling. It powers Private.sh. Gigablast is tied with Right Dao for quality.
* Gowiki: Very young, small index, but shows promise. I discovered this in the seirdy.one access logs. Currently only available in the US. Seems down as of early 2022.
=> https://rightdao.com Right Dao
* Gigablast: Its been around for a while and also sports a classic web directory. Searches are a bit slow, and it charges to submit sites for crawling. It powers Private.sh. Gigablast is tied with Right Dao for quality.
=> https://gigablast.com/ Gigablast
=> https://private.sh Private.sh
=> https://gowiki.com Gowiki
* Alexandria: A pretty new "non-profit, ad free" engine, with freely-licensed code. Surprisingly good at finding recent pages. Its index is built from the Common Crawl; it isn't as big as Gigablast or Right Dao but its ranking is great.
=> https://www.alexandria.org/ Alexandria
=> https://github.com/alexandria-org/alexandria Alexandria engine source code
### Smaller indexes, hit-and-miss
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These engines were originally included in the article, but have since been discontinued.
* 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 hadnt 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.
=> https://xangis.com/the-wbsrch-experiment/ The Wbsrch Experiment
=> https://gowiki.com Gowiki
## Acknowledgements

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- [Right Dao](https://rightdao.com): very fast, good results. Passes the tests fairly well. It plans on including query-based ads if/when its user base grows.[^8]
- [Gigablast](https://gigablast.com/): It's been around for a while and also sports a classic web directory. Searches are a bit slow, and it charges to submit sites for crawling. It powers [Private.sh](https://private.sh). Gigablast is tied with Right Dao for quality.
- [Gowiki](https://gowiki.com): Very young, small index, but shows promise. I discovered this in the seirdy.one access logs. Currently only available in the US. Seems down as of early 2022.
- [Alexandria](https://www.alexandria.org/): A pretty new "non-profit, ad free" engine, with [freely-licensed code](https://github.com/alexandria-org/alexandria). Surprisingly good at finding recent pages. Its index is built from the Common Crawl; it isn't as big as Gigablast or Right Dao but its ranking is great.
### Smaller indexes, hit-and-miss
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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.
- [Gowiki](https://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.
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