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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.

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[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Name is terrible but they have a docker compose for the crawler so I might put this on my NAS.

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 3 points 22 hours ago

From the FAQ on Codeberg:

How do you pronounce "mwmbl"?

Like "mumble". The developer lives in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. But the intended meaning is "to mumble", as in "don't search, just mwmbl!"