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How does the homepage of https://mwmbl.org/ not have a single sentence explaining what it is or even an "About" link? From Github: "Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed."
Not everything is a product that needs to be sold.
> Our estimated annual budget is $752.36 and we have spent $174.49.
Wuite curious. What indexing and retrieval software is this using? I couldn’t find reference to it. Does it index phrases ?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/mwmbl-web-cra...
> [W]e’re crawling up to a million pages a day, as you can see on our stats page.
> Given that Mwmbl is still relatively unknown, it seems plausible that we can reach our target of crawling three billion pages a day, to refresh the entire index in one month.
I think this is supposed to read "it seems plausible that we can reach our target of crawling three million pages a day."
I thought I recalled seeing this before due to its Welsh name and (as is often the case) some are from their domain and some are from the GitHub repo; the ones with over 100 comments are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690877
We are entering a new era of web search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38465864 - Nov 2023 (2 comments)
Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561155 - Sept 2023 (122 comments)
The Book of Mwmbl: a free, non-profit search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828087 - Dec 2022 (8 comments)
Show HN: An open source web crawler for the Mwmbl non-profit search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765015 - June 2022 (4 comments)
Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29690877 - Dec 2021 (199 comments)
Wuite curious. What indexing and retrieval software is this using? I couldn’t find reference to it. Does it index phrases ?
> We’ve indexed over 100 million pages > [W]e’re crawling up to a million pages a day, as you can see on our stats page. > Given that Mwmbl is still relatively unknown, it seems plausible that we can reach our target of crawling three billion pages a day, to refresh the entire index in one month. I think this is supposed to read "it seems plausible that we can reach our target of crawling three million pages a day."
Seems you are correct.