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Indexing a billion pages

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Re: Indexing a billion pages

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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."

Re: Indexing a billion pages

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post #3

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.

Re: Indexing a billion pages

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post #3

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."

Here's its mission: https://blog.mwmbl.org/articles/non-profit-search-engine/

Re: Indexing a billion pages

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post #4
post #3

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.

Totally agree. I was just trying to figure out what it is. Even something a small as a subheading like Wikipedia ("The Free Encyclopedia") does would be very helpful.

Re: Indexing a billion pages

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post #4
post #3

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.

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Re: Indexing a billion pages

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post #3

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."

I suggest also providing og title and og image fields for social media.
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