Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

Post by Tiberium » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

Brybry wrote: post #33

Tiberium wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You won't be able to scan most of websites this way because most servers expect you to also pass a valid hostname. However you can use domain lists, for example https://purecrawl.com/en/download/domains (or https://domains-monitor.com/ which is paid but has more domains) as an initial seed shouldn't be too bad, but you'll have to ingest terabytes of spammy/low quality content.

wouldn't certificate transparency logs be a good way to collect most active domains?

Post by Avery29 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 3:04 AM UTC

Post by jjmarr » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 4:26 AM UTC

cosmic_quanta wrote: post #5

Lyngbakr wrote: post #2

Something I couldn't find info about is how this is funded, given that it is ad free and doesn't sell user data. Is it supported by a nonprofit organisation or just paid for out of the developer's pocket?

This is a critical piece of information to convince me to switch to this. I'm quite interested though! Also, what's the context of "Built in Canada"? What's the point of mentioning this? Should I expect the results to be better for Canadian content?

Post by coldbreeze » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

Post by dekdrop » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 6:25 AM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #3

The search engine does indeed seem to be fully custom - the results for niche topics are quite bad, but that at least means it's not a Bing frontend, so it's forgivable. Although I wonder why the authors decided to go 100% custom instead of (partially?) reusing https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch for some of the core engine. On an unrelated note: why do some people use LLMs to write all the text in t…