A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)

I have been somewhat impressed by Mojeek, but it does have two obvious flaws:<p>1) It not really good for localized search, it might be if you&#x27;re local to the US or UK.<p>2) No !bangs. Coming from Ecosia I frequently just do !w !maps !yt because I know where I want the answer to come from<p>For English language searches, it completely usable, but not quite as good as Bing or Google. I really wanted to try to use Mojeek as my default for an extended period of time, but the lack of good local search makes it a bit annoying.

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Looking at all top 3 is helpful. I have done a lot of part sourcing for engineering work and begun using searx because of the aggregation. There are some other tools to use also when searching for obscure out of stock supply chain induced woes.

Is there some 80&#x2F;20 rule for web indexing?<p>I’m not saying having deep per-page indexing of Reddit, for example, isn’t useful. But is there any value in a breadth-focused index that is far cheaper to maintain?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;index.network" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;index.network</a> for composable, user-owned semantic indexes. Disclaimer: I work there.

Can we get a list for 2024?

Missed exa.ai! Embeddings-based search engine with its own index

A little tangential but does anyone know if there are any modern web directories?<p>I&#x27;m wondering because it seems like due to the amount of spam on the web there needs to be more human curation as opposed to algrothims deciding what websites are valuable or not.

It needs updating to include you.com, perplexity, etc. Most of those are google reskins&#x2F;emulators but they are there non the less